I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer. Nathan Lowell More Quotes by Nathan Lowell More Quotes From Nathan Lowell My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them. Nathan Lowell audio stores book Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre. Nathan Lowell genre audience way Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy. Nathan Lowell pubs narrative littles More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible. Nathan Lowell fans asking want I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again. Nathan Lowell form three writing I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less "wouldn't it be cool if we could get people to do it" and more "what else would people do." Nathan Lowell phones people ideas Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic. Nathan Lowell hurricanes coffee years My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark. Nathan Lowell dark character people My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to. Nathan Lowell tired real reading I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms. Nathan Lowell audio credit book My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace. Nathan Lowell marketplace opinion use specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form. Nathan Lowell form long fiction Stop aspiring. Start doing. Nathan Lowell
