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Hugh Howey on Self-Publishing, Indie Authors, Amazon and Big Five Publishers | Digital Book World

In an interview, Hugh Howey discusses the state of self-publishing, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, indie authors and big five publishers.

Source: Hugh Howey on Self-Publishing, Indie Authors, Amazon and Big Five Publishers | Digital Book World

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Word play…

While editing a variety of stuff… like my book, web pages, book outlines, I came across some interesting information.

Everyone is familiar with the “trilogy“… right?

Well here’s the other versions I found today…

Dilogy… A series of two related works

“I got a dilogy planned and plotted so that’s a valid word I can later include on my website…”

Trilogy… A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.

“I think most people are familiar now with Divergent series which is a perfect example of one of these.”

Tetrology…A set of four works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as four individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.

“Not got any of these in the list of book ideas… but it won’t stop me coming up with something…”

Pentology… A set of five works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as five individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.

“Something fishy here… It seems I could be looking into this in a serious way… Yes a hint!!!”

Hexalogy… A set of six works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as six individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.

“The six expansion of the game World of Warcraft could be considered this… also a contender as a word on my website…”

 

For the following words I am quoting Wikipedia…

Heptalogy…

  1. (rare) A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
    The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling. The Dark Tower by Stephen King. “The Keys to the Kingdom” by Garth Nix.

“I think they’re missing something in that list… Oooh another hint!”

Octalogy…

  1. (rare) A set of eight works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.  
    • 1886
      The Shakespearean octalogy which begins with Richard II. and ends with Richard III.

Enneaology…

(rare) A set of nine works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.

  • 1992, Andrew Lawrence Markus (English quoter), August Pfizmaier (German author), “Über den Text eines japanischen Drama’s” (1870), page 115, quoted in The Willow in Autumn: Ryūtei Tanehiko, 1783-1842, Harvard University Asia Center, ISBN 978-0-674-95351-2, page 76:
    These works appear, upon closer scrutiny, to be dramatic, and are actually the seventh and eighth parts of an “ennealogy” (as it were), perhaps “polylogy,” for dramas in Japan frequently are protracted to such lengths.
  • 2009, Roger Cooke, “Review of Naming Infinity”, page 11:
    George Passant, the protagonist of C.P. Snow’s second novel in the Strangers and Brothers ennealogy
  • 2011, Ralph Raab, The Tamerlane Trap, iUniverse, page 1
    Of course, nobody in their right mind would want to commit to an octalogy, ennealogy, or decalogy—or even more!— unless you were a fan of, say, Lemony Snicket

Decalogy…

A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.

“But it’s possibly just easier to say “polylogy” when there’s more than two books in a series, right…?”

That make a standalone novel an “unology“… and I can do those too…

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Today I am writing… everything except a book!

I’ve been really busy ever since my book got released…

THAT happened yesterday, but I am not feeling it is on release intil I got everything smoothed out. Which began with correcting a typo I found on the book cover that actually crept in during editing the “blurb” (back cover content of the book) from paper to computer… and I only spotted it TODAY during rechecking texts and so on.

It means a small hiccup in the road… to success I hope to say. But I am convinced that is better to catch it before the first sales happen than after it’s been sold many many times.

So what else is it I’ve done on the day after the BIG EXCITEMENT of the book release…?

For a start I’ve been working on making my website less sparse. It’s not yet updated, so don’t bother going to http://www.nathaliemlromer.com to see it… all I’ve done in the way of updates is correcting spelling errors found on the website and that was it. The NEW website will be launched on the morning of 28 March 2016… you’ll see the new stuff then! (the website isn’t sparse any more!

I’ve been going through checking OTHER books I have planned and then updating those appropriately with extra information each needed.

I’ve also started TODAY on the companion book I will release in Summer 2021 that explores in greater detail the history, geography, customs, people, places and traditions of the world where Keldarra exists, although some small pieces of information will be available on pages called Keldarra Library Archives on the my website. No link yet because I want them to be ready to launch in its entirety before launching it. I am scheduling this tentatively in the Autumn of this year although this is subject to change.

Not yet up on the website, but here’s a preview of other things I am doing too in the next few months…

Sound Bites – Small clips of sound files of how I pronounce names, nouns, places and things, etc from books.

Reference information for The Stone of Truth – Get the setting demystified and understand more of the world that Marrida and Alagur live in.

Map Interactivity – I will work between now and the middle of the summer on the map page to add clickable links on it so you can get a bird’s-eye view of what they encounter on the route that Marrida and Alagur took when they started their journey…

I think readers will be interested in knowing HOW I say words. Figuring out the phonetic pronunciation of names is something that has always been fascinating for me. I give one example now. The name Keldarra. Are you saying it with the emphasis ending at the ‘A’ at the end… if so you’re saying it wrong. It is KEL-darra… The KEL part has the emphasis on it. Anyway, when I do those Sound Bites you will hear it for yourself…

I think having reference information about a world in which I set an epic fantasy SERIES is important. I know there’s information about the world in which Lord of the Rings takes place for example. I plan to do similar minimally on my website. I won’t give away too much there as that will spoil the companion book planned.

Talking of Lord of the Rings… when I told my father (or Papa as I call him) about my book, he asked me, “Is this J. K. Rowling or is this Tolkien?” to which I replied “It’s  Tolkien…” and I feel it is. When you read the book, you will see why…

The only other work done besides this, was sorting out something a resemblance of a schedule because I know I will need one to stay on top of everything I want to write, that I have to do, and that will come my direction… such as book reviews, interviews.