Wool

People came out of the woodwork yesterday to complain to the grievance committee member that inhabits my office and shop. Just another day in the life.

I had a ton of work to do as well. Parts for two jets were just for starters and it got busy from there!

Anyway I finished a book called Wool: The Omnibus Edition by Hugh Howey at lunch yesterday. It's pretty good. It paints a time after the world quit working and there are seeds of people planted in one corner of the world. These seed banks are silos and the silos are huge and inhabit thousands of people each. Entire systems from oil pumps to water pumps to gardeners and even livestock.

The interesting thing about this book is that it's a self published novel on Amazon for the Kindle. The first book was about fifteen thousand words and qualifies as a novelette. After the reviews from it wanted more story he wrote another one and another one and kept going. That started last April.

The book has gained attention from a long ways away too. Ridley Scott just purchased the movie rights to it. A hardback edition is in the works for the UK, he plans on staying independent in the States though. He's also very accessible. After I finished reading the book I emailed him my thoughts. He replied back himself! He says it's important to stay in touch with the people that read your material and months ago he was cleaning book shelves part time and writing on his breaks.

Mr. Howey seems a humble and goofy guy! I'd say get Wool and enjoy it, a new business model and brand new way of getting new stories out to people and bypassing the book making machine that usually dictates how and what we read and from whom.