Wool Omnibus Edition (1-5)

[jenmarya]

When Wired mentioned that a self-published author was cresting the sci fi charts with goood story, I jthought I'd give it a try. The first story hit me like a bazooka and I had to hold the kindle over my midsection to stop the pain. In short, it's about a widower sheriff in a post-apocalyptic world who is compelled to solve the mystery of his wife'

Comments

[traballenguas]

Looks cool. Will check it out.

[jenmarya]

Hope you like it, also indie author-to-be! BTW, he's selling the kindle edition for $4.03. He gets 70% and Amazon takes 30%. And he still gets more than authors that go through a publisher-- I had no idea. May you get inspired!

[traballenguas]

Yeah, I'll probably get it. The paperback edition is $15!!!

Amazon has some good deals for authors, but they also attach a lot of conditions (can't sell elsewhere for higher, etc.). Smashwords gets you to more places, but their formatting sucks.

[juleske]

I read the first book (it's in the sample of the Omnibus edition), but I have no idea what happened. The language was pretty confusing in parts. And I felt frustrated because no one would say what was going on! So eum.. I guess I'm no help :)

[jenmarya]

Boo hoo, sob sob sob.... wah! Bummer! (I asked P just now if he had these problems and he said no.)
Are you calling it quits?
If you give up now, you'll not meet the "balls of titanium" Jules character. Maybe it would be like seeing yourself in a long lost mirror!

[juleske]

The major and the deputy are already descending towards Jules, so I'll finish the sample for sure! All the reviews of book I say it's earth shattering though, so I feel like I've missed something really important. I just felt frustrated of being kept out of the loop by everyone...

*spoiler tag*

Lady: I've figured it all out! But instead of telling you all about it, I will drop vague hints and take off!
Husband walks outside, sees some greenery instead of brownery, thinks he's figured it all about, and then drops dead from toxic poisoning anyway.
Cut to characters who don't know anything.

Did I miss anything? It just feels a little manipulative to have characters go "I KNOW WHAT THE BIG SECRET IS" and then not tell. Or is the secret only that the silo switches green for brown and you need to read on to know why? What am I missing?

[jenmarya]

Ok then. Maybe it's not for you. :)

Damn straight I wanted to know if Lady was really dead or was it another tricksy pixel trick like switching brown to green. Story had me levitating with hope right til the toxic death (which is explained later- it's another clue). The author's killing off the characters I invested so much in hurt, lots, but the political theory behind the Macchiavellian consent-manufacturing cleansing ritual involving weird pixels that make people take off their helmets intrigued me to level 11, off the dial.