Given the success he experienced, he continued to write more stories for the dystopian world he had created. Howey reportedly set out to only write a short story. Wool isn’t a novel but a collection of short stories/novellas that make up part of the Silo series. He has a deal with Simon & Schuster for the distribution of hardcopies of his titles only. Howey is notable for having self-published Wool before forgoing large deals with traditional publishers in favour of keeping ebooks rights to himself. I had far more of an awareness of the author, Hugh Howey, from his vocal contributions to the Amazon-Hachette debate and his general support of Amazon and self-publishing more generally. I began reading Wool knowing little about the book other than it had roots in self-publishing, was hugely popular and highly regarded in the SF community.
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