Tag: Hugh Howey
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How to Create Your First Booktrack (and Get 2,000 New Readers)
When I first heard about Booktrack.com from my literary agent, Kristin Nelson, I was fairly skeptical of the idea. Ebooks with music and sound effects, really? But then I tried the Booktrack of the short story Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft. I’ll be honest—I was blown away. Hearing the waves lap against the side of the castaway’s lifeboat, hearing his…
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BookGoodies.com: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?
I once got to hear Orson Scott Card talk about his writing method. He went on at great length about how the voices of his characters talked to him. The voices told him to do this, he said, the voices told him to do that. As he droned on endlessly, a friend leaned over to…
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Everything You Know About E-Books is Wrong
Hugh Howey is one of the smartest people I know. So when he crunches a moonshot-load of data on e-book sales and comes to a jaw-dropping conclusion, people sit up and take notice. Here’s why you should, too: FACT: Self-published authors as a group are making 50% more profit than their traditionally published counterparts. FACT:…
LAURENCE MACNAUGHTON 