Howdy, everyone! Welcome to the homepage of Trent Ryan Katzenberger, aspiring writer and internet personality. Here, you can find links and information to all of my stories, videos, and audio performances. Anything you are interested in or might have questions about should be cleared up by the time you are done at the Trent Directory.
Below, you will find links and information directing you towards whatever content piques your interest.
Welcome and, please, enjoy your stay!
-Trent Ryan Katzenberger
If you just can't be bothered to scroll through the different options, head back up to the top and click on What's New, to be instantly taken to whatever is the most recent thing I've posted whether that is a YouTube video, a podcast, or a new story or chapter.
You can find all of my publicly available stories here. In addition, this is where you can gain access to the stuff that I can't put out in the open quite yet.
(For more information about that, please check out the BETA READER section down below)
My stories tend to be genre fiction, what George R. R. Martin's father called "that weird stuff"; horror, fantasy, and sci-fi, all the stuff that lets us look back at our world clearer, through a different lens.
I'm always working on something new. My GOAL is to finish at least 1 new novel per year. With luck, I'll be able to get more done.
I also write "short" stories somewhat regularly, though, for these, I have no specific goal or schedule. I take breaks from the novels sometimes and, often, writing something else for a little while is just the thing to keep me interested in the longer piece I'm working on.
If any of this sounds interesting, go ahead and click the link below, it'll take you right to my story page.
Unbeknownst is my audiobook storytelling podcast. Much like with my YouTube videos, my goal with Unbeknownst is to highlight not only my own work but that of other authors who I find fascinating and inspiring as well.
The aim is to have me reading you a new story every single week. For the most part, it will be some horrifying new tale of the thought provoking, the strange, or the disturbed by some other author, either well known or never heard of.
However, every once in awhile, when I have something new for you, I will read out my own short story, adding it to the ever growing tally of fascinating things you can listen to.
On YouTube, I upload videos (at least once a week and shorts every day or two) covering not only my writing and my journey as an author but the fascinating stories I come across in my free time and what you can get out of said interesting tales.
Think of it as a personality based review and recommendation channel, focusing on genre fiction; horror, sci-fi, and fantasy, especially what we can learn from said stories as writers.
Those are my videos, though. For my shorts, I tend to cover theories, info, and discussions about series that I love.
Right now, I am doing one theory about The Stormlight Archive/day leading up to the release of the new book.
I NEED BETA READERS!!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP?
YOU WILL GET ACCESS TO NON-PUBLIC
MATERIAL, ALL THE STUFF THAT I HAVE TO HOLD BACK DUE TO PUBLISHER
REQUIREMENTS.
THAT IS AT LEAST A DOZEN SHORT STORIES
YOU WILL INSTANTLY GAIN ACCESS TO, AS
WELL AS SEVERAL CHUNKY, PLUS - SIZED
NOVELLAS AS WELL AS REGULAR CHAPTERS
FROM WHATEVER NOVEL I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON.
ALL I ASK, IN RETURN, IS TO GET FEEDBACK ON
THE STUFF THAT YOU'VE READ.
YOUR FEEDBACK WILL HELP TO CLEAN UP THE FINAL PRODUCT AND YOU WILL GET
MENTIONED IN THE (EVENTUAL) CREDITS ONCE THESE STORIES FINALLY GET PUBLISHED!
IF THIS SOUNDS INTERESTING TO YOU,
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP AND BECOME
The last thing that is worth mentioning is The Graveyard. This is where I put any work or ideas that I have decided to officially retire for one reason or another.
The Graveyard can, potentially, provide some use to those interested in following my career and evolution as a writer BUT may also serve those looking for inspiration as well as a place to find object lessons on what NOT to do in the form of failures that I eventually learned to overcome and the stories or concepts that helped me to do so.
Some of the writing is pretty bland/bad. Worse, a lot of it is just outright edgy and cringey as hell! But, hey, you can't get better if you didn't start out "bad" in some way or another, right? That's the real point of this section. To encourage others.
These are my mistakes and each one of them helped me learn. A LOT. And you cannot learn, you cannot get better without first having made a mistake or being ignorant or incorrect.
So....
Look... Hey. Don't be so hard on yourself.
Behold the corny writing of my youth (at least my youth as a writer, lol) and feel better about your own work and then, maybe, just maybe, learn a few ways that you, too, can, potentially, improve!