#tftlc

Hello there. I'm a writer, chiefly of Audio Drama aka Fiction Podcasts.

I'm mostly known for a show called The Mistholme Museum Of Mystery, Morbidity, And Mortality, a full-cast series set in a Museum where the world's weirdest exhibits just kind of show up. That series is complete, with 67 episodes available wherever you listen to such things.

I'm also the creator of Tales From The Low City, a narrated fiction podcast set in an alien city where very strange people have to learn to live after the end of the world. It's currently releasing new episodes.

My works can be found on Patreon, where you can get an ad-free feed, early access to new stuff, and other things like a whole book I wrote that I don't know what to do with called A Dead Man In A Dying Town.

I also have a cat named Frog that I post sometimes.

He's nice.

Tales From The Low City is a narrated fiction podcast set in a strange and alien world, written and produced by Dom Guilfoyle (Also known for The Mistholme Museum).

Each episode tells the listener about an aspect of this bizarre place before segueing into a story related to that aspect; over time a broader picture of the setting becomes clear, and with it a growing sense of its history and its destiny.

Success is nebulous and has always felt like something for other people rather than me, but a million downloads across my shows is obviously a milestone. Funny how it doesn't feel like all that much, compared to a lot of the bigger shows and "content creators" out there.

Something I've learned, perhaps the most important thing I've learned over the last four years of doing this, is that the worst thing you can do as a creative is compare yourself to others. Engage with other people's work, learn from it, be inspired by it, sure. But if you let yourself compare yourself to others, their downloads or patreon money or the size of their community, you'll go mad and burn out.

I think a big part of why I've been able to keep going, despite being knowing that I'm never going to be a Magnus Archives or a Welcome To Night Vale or anywhere close, is because I've realised I don't give a shit? Any amount of "success" in a creative field is incredible. A hundred downloads is the same as a million, because at the end of the day they're both a rounding error compared to what someone else is going to get.

I don't have money, or a company, or even any collaborators apart from the wonderful actors willing to recite my nonsense.

I'm one person who makes stuff I like making, and some people happen to like that stuff.