Ep. 9 - Hugh Howey: Is Self-Publishing the Next Gold Rush?
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2014
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is James Althoucher at the James Althoucher Show, and I have a very special guest today. |
| 0:17.6 | But first, welcome to my co-host, Aaron Brabham, Aaron, how's it going? |
| 0:21.8 | Man, I'm doing great, James. |
| 0:23.4 | It's another beautiful sunny day in Orlando, although it's a bit chilly, only high of 63 |
| 0:29.4 | today. |
| 0:30.4 | Don't make me jealous, you know it's negative three degrees here in New York, so I didn't |
| 0:37.4 | even know that. |
| 0:38.4 | You're just rubbing it in. |
| 0:39.4 | I know. |
| 0:40.4 | I know. |
| 0:41.4 | So James, look, for all of your guests, I always know the name in the very least, if not |
| 0:46.8 | I'm very familiar with their work, but today I was unfamiliar with your guest's name. |
| 0:53.2 | So I had to do a little research, but I want you to tell your listeners who the guest is |
| 0:57.9 | and why you decided to have them on your show. |
| 1:00.7 | Sure. |
| 1:01.7 | First off, his name is Hugh Howey. |
| 1:03.7 | He's the best-selling author of the Wolf series, this is a science fiction series, and |
| 1:09.3 | there's something very unique about this series in that it was self-published. |
| 1:13.7 | He had no published report. |
| 1:15.2 | He just basically uploaded his files to Amazon, published the book, as he explains in the |
| 1:21.4 | interview, well, you'll see it was his ninth book that he had self-published, and the |
| 1:25.7 | book just took off and became this massive bestseller. |
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