I do not know this man!!! HA.
Kudos to new fan Jorge Ortiz for taking the book seriously… 😉
Newsflash: “Wool” is seriously cool
I know, I know, if you’re the one person like me who’s been living in silo all this time and you haven’t read the stories yet, Hugh Howey’s Wool is worth the hype — and I don’t say that lightly.
The first installment in the series is not the best. The original stand-alone section has some great twists and turns. Then in what amounts to chapter two, the story takes off. After you sink your head into chapter three, there ain’t no coming out. You’re in this world to stay.
What I’ve noticed most about the series (I’m near the end of the Wool Omnibus and will definitely grab the Shift Omnibus next) is that the storyline is much more about the people than about the tech. Howey does an incredible job of immediately sketching his characters into real, believable people. It’s easy indeed to become emotionally invested. I’ve a hard time not reading one more chapter. Just one more, I swear!
The book is sci fi but not too sci fi, dark but not too dark, very accessible, very engaging, dynamic, and full of mystery and appeal.
Great stuff. That is all. 😉
New “Name Game” Contest – Typo Bounty Hunters
By now, everyone knows The Frozen Sky was self-published. That means it didn’t receive the benefit of a professional copy editor parsing through each and every sentence. The book did receive the benefit of several professional writers providing their eyeballs. But this is how those conversations did not go:
New York Times Bestselling Author: “Jeff, I really like this book.”
Jeff: “Wow. Thank you.”
NYTBA: “I’d be happy to endorse it. The main character is great. Love the action. Love the aliens. There are also about ten typos you should fix.”
Jeff: “Yeah, would you please read through my 450-page manuscript again and tell me where they are?”
Aha ha ha.
Most of the gaffes are extra or missing words in sentences. When I churn through my first draft, my fingers can’t always keep up with my brain. When I rewrite and edit, my brain can’t always keep up my fingers. If there’s an extra word, my brain ignores it. If there’s a missing word, my brain supplies it. So. Here’s a new Name Game contest challenge.
Please email me at jeff@jverse.com. The first two people who can identify five or more gaffes in The Frozen Sky will earn the right to name a future character after themselves or a friend. What I need is the meat of each gaffey sentence in order to locate ’em and kill ’em.
Here is one such mistake I’ve already identified:
“It might help them can make sense of us,” Koebsch said.
Obviously the word “can” can’t be there.
Who else can help me!? If you do, as your reward, you might find yourself inside Europa’s catacombs having your face ripped off by a freaky ice monster… 🙂
Fun TV/net interview with “Cult Pop”
The good “Double J” team at Cult Pop just released my third interview on their fun, awesome show.
Always a pleasure!
Cult Pop host Jim Hall and studio master Jerry Jesion bring their passion, deep knowledge of sf/f, and some trick questions to the program. And I drink too much coffee. Aha ha ha.
You can find the new episode here…