Nathan Lowell & Going Your Own Way
The podcast today is with Nathan Lowell, a member of IPAL writer who clearly starts by taking what’s typical and turning it inside out.
Nathan Lowell goes his own way.
Nathan has been writing for only nine years yet has developed multiple series under the broad category of speculative fiction. As you’ll see, he sets a hard-charging pace for his daily production.
Nathan has developed a large and adoring audience. His latest title, In Ashes Born, came out in September of last year and already has drawn 400 reviews on Amazon, carrying a rock solid five-star rating.
Nathan Lowell was born in Portland, Maine, in 1952. He grew up in an agricultural community in rural Maine and spent time working on fishing boats along the coast. His first literary success came with the publication of a poem while still in elementary school. That early success was followed by forty years of attempt, rejection, failure, and ultimately giving up on the dream of writing science fiction.
In 2007, with the rise of podcast fiction, he started writing again. He completed his first successful novel – Quarter Share – in January, 2007, and podcast it through Podiobooks.com over February and March, 2007. Since then he has written eight novels, several short stories, and a novella. His podcast novels have been finalists in the Parsec Award five times, and he’s won Parsec Awards for Speculative Fiction (long form) twice — 2010 and 2011.
He holds a BS in Business Administration with a minor in Marketing from SUNY/Buffalo (92), an MA in Educational Technology (98), and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology with specializations in Distance Education, Interactive Media, and Instructional Design (04). He lives Colorado with wife, two daughters, and a trio of feline companions.
Intro music courtesy of Moby Gratis
Outro music courtesy of Dan-o-Songs
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Host Mark Stevens: http://www.writermarkstevens.com
Thanks, Mark. Great fun.
I skipped something important in my talking about marketing efforts. My mailing list.
Very important piece of the puzzle.
(also, I miss-spoke when I said I had over 5mil downloads near the end there. That should have been “page-reads” – a metric Amazon uses to count how much of an author’s work has been read via Kindle Unlimited. I only sold about 8000 units that month. Those would have been “downloads”. Sorry about that. Mouth and brain frequently get out of sync.)