I was working full-time as a programmer and had three kids in diapers, so finding the time to write a book didn’t seem feasible. I., and by the time our conversation was over my friend said the story would make a great book. I.) and he insisted that it just wasn’t plausible. My professor praised my originality and shared my paper with the entire class.Ībout five years ago, I was at lunch telling a friend about artificial intelligence (A.
For a final paper in college, I was supposed to critique a film or play at the eleventh hour I still hadn’t seen any performance, so I wrote about leaves changing color in the fall. I blogged about technology but I never saw myself as a writer. Apocalypse, won Foreword Reviews ’ Science Fiction Book of the Year in 2011 for Avogadro Corp, and won Independent Publisher ’s 2014 IPPY Bronze medal in science fiction for The Last Firewall. He was nominated for the Prometheus Award for Best Novel for A.
William Hertling is the author of six self-published books, including four techno thrillers in the Singularity series a middle-grade detective novel, The Case of the Wilted Broccoli and the guide Indie and Small Press Book Marketing. For some perspective I spoke with freelance editor Jessica Page Morrell, an author and writing instructor, and Jessica Glenn, founder and CEO of Mindbuck Media, a firm specializing in author publicity. We discussed his self-publishing experiences, how he found success in the process, and some of the mistakes he admits he made along the way. Hertling spent a month completing the initial draft of Avogadro Corp, the first novel in what would become his popular four-book Singularity series, which together have sold more than sixty thousand copies. But a lengthy conversation about artificial intelligence with a friend back in 2010 inspired William Hertling to write his first techno thriller-a move that would jump-start a successful career as a self-published author.
To go from software programmer to successful novelist isn’t an obvious evolution, even for an experienced technology blogger.
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