Mike Carlon

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3,207 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 11 Aug

Mike Carlon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 17 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 9.

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Uncorking a Story · Downloads from Spirit, with Katherine Marie · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

Um yeah, let let me know how to do that because I I've been trying to build a platform for a while and it's like it's hard and and you know, publishers um it's the first thing they ask. voice-verified

Uh you know, when they're where it's one of the first things they look at, even before they look at your writing. voice-verified

sample, they'll want to know how big your platform is. voice-verified

And it's really hard for aspiring authors because you know they don't have a platform yet. voice-verified

Because you know, if their platform is about their writing and they haven't written or published anything yet, how do you have a platform for it? voice-verified

Um so it's it and that's that's it's a it's a bigger issue we could talk about with with writing in general because it it is you know I think voice-verified

The traditional the traditional publishing industry, I get it, it's under a tremendous amount of of pressure. voice-verified

Because there are you can start, and I believe you've done this. voice-verified

I mean, you can start your own publishing company. voice-verified

Like the barrier to entry is basically your time in learning how to do this stuff. voice-verified

And if you're if you're a a software person, if you know how to to to you know um create um interior files and and voice-verified

And get those to mark down to to EPUB format for um for Kindle or e readers, I should say. voice-verified

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

Um, you you can you can kind of do a lot of the stuff that they were known to do. voice-verified

And they're not gonna help you with promotion, really. voice-verified

I get it. voice-verified

They want they want sure things. voice-verified

Um they want sure things, but but you know, that's that uh you know, I think they I think a lot of great authors um get passed up because of that. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Yeah, and and you know, and I talked to other people who have, you know, backgrounds in marketing, right? voice-verified

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