This gave me an appreciative audience.įinally, I told myself that everything I published would be available for thousands of years, so success and appreciation didn’t have to occur in my lifetime. I made sure that I enjoyed what I was writing, that I loved the process. I think it’s important for successful artists to share all that they’ve endured so our expectations match reality.Ī few tricks really helped me: I planned from the outset to languish in obscurity for ten years before I assessed my progress. Every other work of art appears out of nowhere, and successful careers seem to start with everyone else’s first go.īut that’s never how it works. The problem artists have is that we only know our own struggles. HUGH: It is exceedingly rare for success to come quickly or easily. They expect magic to happen after book one, and that almost never happens. Repeat.Įven for authors who follow all four steps, many struggle with the fifth step: Be patient. Invest in professional editing and cover design. JEFFREY: Five years ago, you spelled out a game plan for aspiring authors: 1. Howey recently spoke with Fussy founder Jeffrey about a wide range of publishing topics - and, since he’s a sci-fi author, his predictions for the future of literature, of course. (Oh, and he also starred in another sci-fi writer’s novel, Hugh Howey Lives - check out our interview with writer Daniel Arthur Smith.) Best-selling author Hugh Howey is known not just for his literary works like the Wool and Silo series, but also for his advocacy for self-published authors.
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