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#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How to Write a Novel Without a Publisher

"I didn't think i was going to write a book that could blow up, because i've been a bookseller for years," she says. "No publisher can guarantee me that i would have a hit no matter what they sell you when they sign you." She started writing young adult space opera and it did well enough 'that if i had been with a publisher, they would have insisted that i only published that stuff' The author's first novel took off from her: an adult destopia novel called wool.

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