Hugh Howey's Blog, page 107
January 8, 2012
The Mystical Art of Redirection
As a writer, I aim to avoid all the tropes I've forever loathed as a reader. For instance: have you ever noticed that everyone in every individual book you've ever read conveniently has a name unique from all the other characters? There's never two Toms in a story, or two Johns, or two Marys, people [...]
January 7, 2012
The Story of My Middling Success (Part 3)
In part one, I told you about my spooky October, when book sales crept up on me, and I began losing sleep over their eventual plummet and gruesome end. Then I regaled you with my chilling November, where the Fall should surely have come to return me to ignoble obscurity. And now this little trilogy of gut-spilling [...]
Today and tomorrow only: FREE Molly!
No, she's not in prison again, or anything like that. (Don't you love how she's always ending up in the slammer somewhere, or strapped to a gurney? Or does anyone pick up on my themes? Is it just me? It's probably just me.) Molly doesn't need your help, she just needs to be read! The [...]
January 6, 2012
Predict the Wool 5 Suckage!
First, can you guess how many emails/tweets/Facebook/Goodreads messages I've received concerning Wool 5? I'll give you a hint: It's more than I get from estranged Nigerian princesses who want me to take their millions and make sweet love to them. (Yeah, that many!) So, what does this mean for Wool 5? It means the Suckage [...]
January 3, 2012
The best day of my writing life.
Well, I haven't been doing this terribly long, and I've had some incredible moments along the way (completing my first novel, singing a contract with Norlights Press, shaking hands and meeting fans at book signings), but today may be the best damn day of my writing life thus far. Any day you get ten or [...]
January 1, 2012
The New "WOOL" Forums
You know what? I'd forgotten my site even had forums! Yeah, I set them up two years ago and probably haven't participated in them in a year and a half. So when a Facebook friend told me people were wondering about the glaring absence of a Wool-specific forum, I rushed over to remedy the oversight. [...]
You could own your own private silo!
My sister just sent me this link to an actual underground, livable silo! Please note the old steel door and the spiral staircase! Freaky.
December 31, 2011
The New Bated-Breathalyzer
It's handy! It's dandy! It slices and dices! But best of all, it tells you how WOOL 5 is coming along! Welcome to the New Bated-Breathalyzer! You're probably here because you just finished WOOLs 1 – 4 in a single sitting, and no amount of Google searching is turning up WOOL 5. Well guess what? [...]
December 30, 2011
An Optimist in Constant Fear
A handful of Amazon reviewers have mentioned the allegories evident in WOOL 1. They compliment the story on forcing them to think on issues long after finishing the last page. Readers of my MOLLY FYDE series are no doubt used to every scenario having at least two meanings (usually more). I'm a huge fan of [...]
The Story of my Middling Success (Part 2)
Let's go back a couple of months, back before I had any idea this Middling Success was barreling down on me. It's 11:00 at night on October 31st, and I'm in bed, blogging. In one hour, National Novel Writing Month 2011 will begin, and tens of thousands of kooks all around the world will join me in attempting [...]
