Episode description

J.C. Hutchins (the award-winning novelist of the 7th Son technothriller trilogy) is today's featured guest.

Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 20, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 47 minutes]

Topics: his innovative approaches to marketing his fiction through the Internet such as his viral videos (vlerbs he calls them) as well as free ebook-downloads and free audio book-downloads and, of course, the results he has been seeing. We also talk about innovative methods used by Cory Doctorow; the problematic trends going on in traditional book publishing; and the Amazon Kindle, one of which he owns and enjoys a great deal.

J.C. Hutchins has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Asimov’s Science Fiction, on the BBC and Italian National Radio.