Did you know that
#AndyWeir (bestselling author of The
#Martian ) is a software engineer?
For years, writing was just a hobby for him. He did not even sell his stories, but uploaded them to his own website, where readers could read them for free. Until one day they asked him to place his novel on
#Amazon . He started selling this book by $0.99, and eventually it became a bestseller. I think you already guessed that it was “The Martian”.
It was in 2014. 10 years after Andy Weir has “only” 3 published novels:
In 2017 he published a
#scifi thriller
#Artemis
And in 2021
#ProjectHailMary (which I am reading now). Hollywood film studios were immediately interested in both novels, and Ryan Gosling even wants to produce and star in the movie Project Hail Mary.
Andy Weir doesn’t write a few novels in 1 year like other popular authors do, he writes 1 novel in several years. But they are so good, that he can make living only by writing them. For me, this is the best motivating example of a successful writer ever.
❓What do you think?
❓Have you read Andy Weir’s books?
#sciencefiction #hardsciencefiction #scifibooks #author #writer #scifiauthor #scifiwriter 
