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Hugh Howey, Bestselling Creator of Wool and Mega-Inventive — Find out how to Promote Hundreds of thousands with Self-Publishing, Find out how to Discover Your Massive Break, Making Hit TV Exhibits (Silo), How AI Will Upend Your Life, Nonconformist Inventive Course of, Recommendation for Writers, and Extra (#726)

13 March 2024
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“It’s important to have loftier targets than your anticipated final result.”

— Hugh Howey

Hugh Howey (@hughhowey) is the New York Instances bestselling writer of Wool, Beacon 23, Sand, Machine Studying, Half Approach House, and greater than a dozen different novels. His Silo trilogy was lately tailored by Apple TV, turning into their #1 drama of all time. A collection based mostly on his novel Beacon 23, starring Lena Headey, additionally launched final yr with season two due in March. Hugh’s works have been translated into greater than 40 languages and have offered thousands and thousands of copies world wide. He lives in New York Metropolis along with his spouse Shay.

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#726: Hugh Howey, Bestselling Creator of Wool and Mega-Inventive — Find out how to Promote Hundreds of thousands with Self-Publishing, Find out how to Discover Your Massive Break, Making Hit TV Exhibits (Silo), How AI Will Upend Your Life, Nonconformist Inventive Course of, Recommendation for Writers, and Extra

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SHOW NOTES

  • [06:48] Breaking the formulation with a literary sleight of hand.
  • [11:00] A dedication to 10 years of obscurity.
  • [15:02] Shopping for again rights and self-publishing.
  • [22:04] Why authors ought to attempt for a reader-first vs. publisher-first mindset.
  • [24:22] Hitting the NYT Finest Sellers Checklist with a self-pub ebook.
  • [27:44] Pricing logic.
  • [31:00] The undersold worth of worldwide rights.
  • [33:57] How authors can discover deal leverage early on.
  • [37:07] Establishing a each day writing behavior.
  • [41:34] Fiction that conjures up higher writing.
  • [45:27] Collaboration vs. writing solo.
  • [46:59] Methods the publishing business protects the established order.
  • [49:55] Why Hugh makes publishing offers in any respect.
  • [50:45] Self-promotion as remedy.
  • [53:05] Keys to fruitful collaboration.
  • [55:47] Frequent errors creatives make.
  • [1:01:05] AI’s present-and-future affect on publishing.
  • [01:06:08] AI-generated occupational and existential crises.
  • [01:10:13] Mid-term optimist, long-term pessimist
  • [01:14:59] Procreation in unsure instances.
  • [01:19:10] The way forward for faith.
  • [01:26:23] Free will and goal ethical reality.
  • [01:31:04] Parting ideas.

MORE HUGH HOWEY QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“It may not be your greatest time as an expert or a human, however your greatest time as a author is while you’re doing it for your self and nobody’s trying over your shoulder when you’re doing it.”
— Hugh Howey

“It’s important to write a ebook that you simply assume one different human will discover this one of the best ebook they’ve ever learn.”
— Hugh Howey

“You don’t need a dangerous evaluation, somebody to pay $2.99 for one thing they learn in an hour. No amount of cash is definitely worth the onslaught of one-star critiques from indignant readers.”
— Hugh Howey

“Publishers used to assume a ebook type of burned out its welcome actually rapidly, and now they’re realizing books have actually lengthy tails — profitable books — and if you may get an engaged readership on board, it’s value a lot cash to have that engaged fandom.”
— Hugh Howey

“It’s important to have loftier targets than your anticipated final result.”
— Hugh Howey

“A standard mistake I see individuals make is considering that readers received’t comply with you throughout genres. So that you see individuals unfold out their identify amongst completely different pen names. I’m going to put in writing below this for sci-fi and below this for love, and that is my nonfiction stuff. The model is you. And if individuals get pleasure from your prose, they’ll comply with you to different genres. So actually consolidate your identification. Except you have got a cause to not write below your actual identify, embrace your writing below your actual identify and just remember to are the model. The extra readers can really feel a reference to the particular person behind the work, the higher off your profession can be.”
— Hugh Howey

“Trusting experience can get you in hassle.”
— Hugh Howey

“All the pieces written greater than 100 years in the past is all free to learn and you may obtain all of them. That has not stopped individuals from having wonderful careers. So the concept there’ll be an excessive amount of to learn and so nobody will make a residing, that’s at all times been true. I’m undecided what AI would change about that.”
— Hugh Howey

“I feel there’s an existential disaster that we’re going to face once we notice what you and I do is computational. Our brains are giant language fashions. We’re not that particular. We are able to replicate the human soul in numerous methods. I feel individuals are going to have a tough time with that.”
— Hugh Howey

“For those who attempt to determine on whether or not or to not have children based mostly on what sort of life you assume they’re going to have, nobody would have children, as a result of nothing’s a assure. Life goes to be bizarre.”
— Hugh Howey

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