Hugh Howey: Author, Storyteller, and Dreamer

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an author and publish a book? You'll get to find out in this episode's interview with Hugh Howey. His two dreams were to publish a book and to sail around the world and he’s been wildly successful at both. You’ll learn about self-publishing, writing, and how Hugh reached his dreams on this week’s episode of the Remarkable People podcast with host Guy Kawasaki. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:48.2	I'm Guy Kawasaki, and this is remarkable people.
0:52.3	This episode's remarkable guest is Hugh Howie.
0:55.7	Hugh is a very successful science fiction author.
0:58.9	He said he had two dreams, to write a novel and to sail around the world.
1:04.0	To put it mildly, he has realized both his dreams.
1:08.2	His first published work, Wool, was a dystopian novella that he wrote while working
1:13.1	as a bookstore clerk at Appalachian State University. This was in 2011. The first Wool's story was
1:20.6	approximately 12,500 words long, and he sold it for 99 cents. After several months, he was selling 1,000 copies per month.
1:31.1	Spurred on by this success, he wrote four more Wool Stories and was soon selling 20 to 30,000
1:37.5	copies per month of the five-story series. In a whopper of an understatement, this enabled him to quit his bookstore job.
1:46.9	Recently, Apple began adapting the book to an Apple TV series.
1:52.3	He was much more than a successful author.
1:54.2	He helped to change the publishing business by achieving his success as a self-published author
2:00.4	through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing
2:03.5	program. This means that he didn't use a traditional publisher. He wrote the book, uploaded it
2:10.1	to Amazon, and collected a far larger percentage of the revenue. He is an inspiration to anyone
2:15.9	who can't get a book deal. If you know anyone who thinks,
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