Jody J. Sperling began his writing journey in earnest in 2010 as a 25-year-old freshman at the University of Nebraska Omaha. In 2021, he realized he had given up on his passion of earning a living as a novelist and quit his job to live his dream or go broke trying. He founded cre8 collabor8, a podcast for first-time novelists who, like him, want to make money publishing.