Ep. 92 - Andy Weir: The Martian - How to go from Self Published to Six Figures

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4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Andy Weir followed his dream. Ever since he was a small boy he wanted to be a writer, but it took him a long time to find success. His first short story, The Egg brought him a bit of notoriety. This thousand-word story got passed around on blog sites...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altature Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:19.3	So this is James Altature at the James Altature Show.
0:22.2	I have with me one of my new favorite authors Andy Weir.
0:28.0	Is that how you pronounce it?
0:29.6	Yeah, that's right.
0:30.4	W-E-I-R, you just wrote the Martian and it's got like, or I shouldn't say you just wrote it,
0:38.2	you wrote it a while ago, but it's got six over six thousand reviews on Amazon.
0:42.8	The number one science fiction book on Goodreads, Ridley Scott is making him.
0:48.4	When's the movie coming out?
0:49.6	Movie comes out in November 25th.
0:52.3	Matt Damon is playing the main character.
0:55.7	Like this must have been the coolest thing in the world.
0:57.9	This was your first published novel, right?
1:00.4	That's right.
1:01.4	Yeah, it's awesome.
1:02.6	It's all my dreams coming true.
1:04.2	And I don't want to, I'm going to get into some of the details inside the book
1:09.4	but without giving any spoilers.
1:10.6	But what I really find fascinating is kind of always the story outside of the story.
1:15.2	Like you originally self-published this in 2012, correct?
1:20.1	Yeah, well actually it goes back a little further than that.
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