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Dungeon Crawler Mookie: How Indie Authors Become Publishing Sensations
Mookie flies solo on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Factory podcast to unpack why Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl has become the decade's breakout indie sensation, and why the rise looks almost identical to one that happened ten years earlier with Andy Weir's The Martian. Both writers built an audience from nothing on a serialized platform, both let readers shape the story as it grew, and both books ended up capturing the mood of the exact moment they were written in: Weir's post-Obama optimism and faith in institutions against Dinniman's post-pandemic dread and distrust of the systems…
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