A novel about video games became a surprise best seller
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How does this work? An unknown author suddenly gets bid on for loads of money before anyone bought the book?
"Knopf, which initially printed 60,000 copies, has reprinted the book 21 times to keep up with runaway sales. "
Company paid more than a million and prints only 60000 copies? How do they intend to make the money back?
This makes no sense to me.
Also, nowadays I don't believe in grass roots anything, what I believe in is clever marketing on social media.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow,_and_Tomorrow,_and_...
Turns out she has multiple novels the plots of which are quite interesting to me.
I am definitely going to try out this novel, Margarettown, and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. And maybe even Elsewhere, too.
Is this level of detail about her dogs necessary? Is this a journalistic thing?
> “I have no doubt that Train is the best game I’ll probably make,” Romero said. “It is the one thing I will have to show for dedicating my life to games. And somebody decided that was just fair game.”
Don't look at the wikipedia page for Train unless you want a huge spoiler. Train has a VERY specific twist. It sounds like that was what was used for the novel, and Brenda Romero is right, especially as other games were credited.
Personally I was hoping it would have been more like the backstory episode of the Mythic Quest TV show and was disappointed. It was an average story at best with characters that never really matured, but that doesn't matter because I'm not the target audience. The target will connect with the characters and come away thinking it was a fantastic story and will gobble up any movie/tv show that comes out of it. Good job, author and marketing.
I want to write a story to help young adults (i.e. 10-16 years old) understand how programs work, and the difference between traditional programs and machine learning.
My idea is to tell it from the perspective of AIs in a computer game of Monopoly. An ML player is introduced, initially clueless, but improves between iterations until it dominates and destroys the game. The game is upgraded with an ML rulebook that returns everything to order.
But I've never written a story before, and I don't know much about how ML. I'd love to get suggestions, advice, feedback, etc.
3 authors i interviewed recommended it too… https://shepherd.com/book/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow