KickTraq

In my last update, I revealed that my foolish lack of foresight had left my virtual tour with a glaring defect: if you wanted to attend more than one night, you'd have to buy a second (or third, or fourth, etc) copy as the price of admission, and... (Read More)

An Impossible Bind Ever find yourself in an impossible bind, where everyone has a just cause, but there's no way they can all get their way? Yeah, it sucks. Here's the good news: as I mentioned in my last update, Tor Books, publisher of the... (Read More)

It's been 12 years since I went on my first book tour and in the years since, I've met and spoken with tens of thousands of readers in hundreds of cities on five continents in support of more than a dozen books. Now I've got another major book... (Read More)

A La Carte benefits (AKA "Travails of a Kickstarter noob") I'm a Kickstarter noob, so when I launched my first campaign (that is, this campaign!) I made some newbie mistakes.  Chief among these was the structure of the rewards. I'm pre-selling the... (Read More)

Doctorow, well known for his dislike of DRM of any kind, is particularly anti-that of Amazon and Audible. In a move to make an entirely DRM-free audiobook, he has recorded Attack Surface read by an actor from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Read More)

When I launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund pre-orders for the audiobook of Attack Surface, I threw in a couple of really big-ticket rewards, more or less on a lark.  For $10K, you could commission a Little Brother story: I'd write a story... (Read More)

Tomorrow will mark the one-week mark and it's been INCREDIBLE. Your generosity, support and word-of-mouth have put me over the moon. THANK YOU. A Print Edition  In case it wasn't clear, Attack Surface is primarily being published by actual... (Read More)

Famed science fiction writer Cory Doctorow has been publishing books for over a decade, and his new title is going to be release next month, called Attack Surface, but he won’t be selling it on Audible. Instead, Doctorow is selling the recorded version of the book through a Kickstarter campaign, and it will also be available through non-Amazon vendors like Google’s Play store and libro.fm. (Read More)

Now he’s trying to publish the third book in the series called Attack Surface. Instead of relying on publishers that use DRM, Mr. Doctorow is releasing it through Kickstarter. There is an eBook and audiobook (Narrated by Amber Benson of “Buffy”). (Read More)

When science fiction writer and activist Cory Doctorow releases his new novel, Attack Surface, next month, you’ll be able to pick up a physical copy from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local independent bookstore. But if you’re someone who prefers an audiobook, you’ll find the novel, which deals with a corporate cybersecurity expert struggling with the morality of her work, absent from one of the biggest audiobook stores on the internet: Amazon’s Audible. Instead, Doctorow is selling the recorded version of the book through a Kickstarter campaign, and it will also be available through non-Amazon vendors like Google’s Play store and libro.fm. (Read More)

This is a marathon, not a sprint, right? I actually got up from my seat and did some other stuff today, including getting a 30 minute swim in at the big public pool across the street (we chose the house because it was close to a pool!). As I type... (Read More)

This morning  I got up at 4:30PM and brought my laptop into the hammock and sat down with it to work on the final touches for the Kickstarter launch. Now it's 6:40PM and I'm still in my pajamas, having barely budged that whole time - instead, I've... (Read More)

Attack Surface is the third Little Brother book. It aims to radicalize a generation of tech workers while entertaining its audience as a cracking, technologically rigorous thriller. (Read More)