Post Piece on Podiobooks.com Powerhouses

I love waking up to read about us in the papers1. Seriously. In what seems to be a continuing trend, Scott Sigler and J.C. Hutchins grabbed some ink from a major newsprint in a recent story in the Washington Post.

The usually topics were covered by Sigler:

There’s a big chip on our shoulders,” Sigler said of his fellow authors in the podcast community. “We’re sitting on these giant stacks of rejections, and we’ve got an attitude: ‘We’re going to show you it’ll sell. We’re going to show you we’re right.’ “

While J.C. continues his path of self-deprecation:

Hutchins describes starting his first recording as something of a desperate act. “I was convinced the thing was deader than disco,” Hutchins said of his book, when he started podcasting the first book of his “7th Son” trilogy, a thriller about a group of clones.

Power-blogger and podiobook author Cory Doctorow chimed in with:

“It proves that there are smarter ways to getting published than just sending a manuscript over the transom to a publisher,”

Well done, gents. Thanks for continuing to raise the awareness of the public — for you and your 150-ish associated authors on Podiobooks.com.

1 – Well… truth be told, I don’t read it in the paper, but the online version. Paper is… quaint.





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3 Responses to “Post Piece on Podiobooks.com Powerhouses”

  1. Joe Cottonwood Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Every time I see a news article about podiobooks, it characterizes every podio author as a newbie who is desperately trying to get published. Am I the only podio author with previously published books? My first came out 30 years ago. Now, after 8 books published the conventional way, I tried the podcast option – and I love it! And yes, it strengthens my negotiating position with publishers when I can show the popularity I’m achieving, but it wasn’t – and still isn’t – the main attraction of podcasting. Podcasting enables me to put my story in an entirely different dimension – that of sound – in addition to printed words. The root of novels is storytelling, which began long before there was a printing press. Podcasting takes us back to the primal – and very powerful – oral tradition. We authors should be proud of this instead of sounding like we’re apologizing for our podcasts as merely a means to get published.

  2. Evo Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 9:58 am

    That’s a great point, Joe. Anytime I get a chance to talk to the press prior to a story release (yep, I talked to this journalist), I always stress to them that we have a varieth of authors on the site with a myriad of reasons why they are releasing their books in this manner.

    I guess that the “struggling author makes good” story sells more paper. :)

  3. Joe Cottonwood Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    I sent an email to Mike Musgrove, the journalist who wrote that article. He wrote back and said he got my point – and, in fact, he wants to listen to my podcast. So there may be a followup.

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