Erik Hanberg spoke at our class last week mainly about publishing and his experiences with the publishing boom.
Hanberg was an author, his wife designed the cover of his first several books and he seeked third party agencies to publish his books. As a result, he saved quite a bit of money on publishing, and made decent profit from selling his books. Hanberg began selling, initially, his mystery novels on the onset of the publishing boom. On his timeline, I could recall that he churned out novels almost yearly. This to me is fascinating, writing and keeping track of the progress of his books and visualizing the work being done on a step-graph was also quite neat. He was able to think of entire story lines in months, not to mention the needless research that may have been required his later novels particularly in the sci-fi realm.
Overall, his talk was very interesting, Erik is a bright guy. I had never had known how authors did work during the cusp of online publishing, and his analogies on the gold mines of California really gave perspective on the timing of these booms and how certain people, if lucky, can truly capitalize on the opportunity.
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