In May 2013 alone, according to Digital Book World, at least ten self - published books were best sellers, including The Bet by Rachel Van Dyken, Twisted Perfection by Abbi Glines, Real by Katy Evans and
Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 — 5) by Hugh Howey.
Because of the free model I bought
the Wool omnibus and, eventually, your entire catalog.
If you haven't read them, go grab
the WOOL Omnibus, First Shift, Second Shift, and Third Shift (or the Shift Omnibus), and get ready for audio books, comic books, and a possible movie!
Howley sells
the Wool Omnibus (five books) print rights to Simon & Schuster for a «significant» deal.
Hugh Howey's
Wool Omnibus is at the number one currently, with a Terry Goodkind book in third.
I just finished Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey and enjoyed his writing so much that I immediately «purchased»
Wool Omnibus edition (Wool 1 - 5) by the same author.
But initially he did 4 Wool book in about 60 - 80 page installments and then did the «
Wool Omnibus».
Also of great interest would be to know what the Wool novelettes I through V rankings ranged before you assembled them into
the Wool Omnibus.
If it were not for the serials, perhaps
The Wool Omnibus may have not come into existence.
Simon and Schuster releases Wool, a print edition of
the Wool Omnibus, this month.
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The WOOL OMNIBUS is now roaring up the charts, and I like to think of the work as much as a collaboration as a singular effort.
It's illuminating to note a few facts comparing Grafton's latest novel, V is for Vengeance, with Howey's
Wool Omnibus.
On your suggestion, I bought
Wool Omnibus Edition through Amazon, and I already had Calibre.
I would also like to reference Hugh Howey's article in Salon titled «Hugh Howey: Self - publishing is the future — and great for writers» Hugh Howey is the indie author of
the Wool Omnibus.
For starting out, novels seem to do best overall, but
the Wool omnibus was certainly a good example of a series of novellas that broke out and hit rockstar status.
And discovered there was more because I came to Wool late in the game, and so I found the entire
Wool Omnibus was already out and Hugh Howey was already hard at work on the Shift series.
Follow him on Twitter, check out his blog on Goodreads, and find
his Wool Omnibus series online for $ 5.99 (who cares about the print versions, anyway?
The WOOL OMNIBUS was selling well enough for me to quit my day job and make a go of it as a full - time author, while at the same time, major publishers were making incredible offers for the rights to my book.
Not exact matches
I grabbed
Wool 1 for free and then bought the rest of the series in the
omnibus.
Howey recently gathered the first 5
Wool «books» into a single
omnibus edition which is what I read.
Two more
Wool - y books are to come; the
omnibus is the start of a trilogy being tracked by its audience along with its author.
I became involved with the world of self - publishing about four years ago, when it was really starting to take off (2012 was the year Hugh Howey first published his international self - published bestseller,
Wool, in
omnibus form, and, well... I think his numbers speak for themselves about why I was drawn to his version of publishing).
One more note, not about an Ether sponsor but about a friend of the Ether: Hugh Howey's first book of the
Wool trilogy, the original five - novella
omnibus, has just come out in its U.S. hardcover and paperback editions from Simon & Schuster.
Or, in case you haven't read it yet, in Howey's
Wool — there's a literary dystopian sensibility at work in the original five - novella
omnibus, which is why some critics refer to Bradbury and Orwell in reference to Howey's work.
For example, Hugh Howey's
Wool and Shift
omnibuses are e-published through a small press, as Howey split the e-book rights off from the print.
A publisher, he suspected, would double the $ 5.99 e-book price of his «
Wool» five - story
omnibus, a move sure to dampen sales.
He doesn't regret his foray into traditional publishing, but in January, he self - published «The Shift
Omnibus,» a prequel to «
Wool.»