It was far more than I’d ever sold of anything in such a span of time. October was messing with me. As the month wore on, I began approaching a thousand sales of a single title in a single month. I was champing at the bit to get started!Ī novelette I’d published in July through CreateSpace, a 12,000 word piece entitled WOOL, began to rack up sales and reviews unlike anything I’d ever written. For the first time ever, I’d actually outlined what I was going to write. This time was going to be even better I was going in with confidence and a game plan. The previous two years had been wonderful successes. Nobody has ever been so well-prepared for National Novel Writing Month success as I was in 2011. For our “Now What?” Months, he’ll join Sarra Cannon for a self-publishing webinar next Monday, and tells us just how NaNoWriMo prepared him for a career: A New York Times bestseller, it’s been optioned for a film by Ridley Scott, and will be published in hardback this March. A three-time NaNoWriMo winner, he self-published Wool, only to see its momentum explode. Just a few years ago, Hugh Howey couldn’t have anticipated his current well-deserved success.
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In addition to the influence of consumer culture, Shaffer’s play depicts powerful tension between traditional British values on the wane, and countercultural values that had been gaining traction since the 1960s. By the 1970s, for example, the vast majority of British citizens owned a television set the power of mass media is manifested by Alan Strang, who sings advertising jingles in his psychotic state. The explosion of affordable, mass-produced technology hastened the homogenization of culture, ushering in what Shaffer calls a “worshipless” way of life. This influx of wealth, combined with the rise of consumer products, contributed to a general rise in what can be described as “consumerism” within society as a whole. During the 1970s, Britain enjoyed increasing economic prosperity among the working class. Before they know what is happening, Homeland Security has quarantined the wilderness around them and sent in assorted scientists to track down and 'neutralize' the threat to the known world. She emails photos to colleagues in far places to try and find a name for the wonderful beings. He takes his friend Cammy Rivers to bear witness to the phenomenal presence. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature's great mysteries has been revealed to him. In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless. |