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Makers serialized online

Pablo from Tor has the details on a cool new promo they're doing to promote my next book, Makers, which'll be published in the fall (HarperCollins UK will publish it in the UK, Australia, NZ, and other parts of the commonwealth). Makers tells the story of a group of hardware hackers who fall in with microfinancing venture capitalists and reinvent the American economy after a total economic collapse, and who find themselves swimming with sharks, fighting with gangsters, and leading a band of global techno-revolutionaries. The first 50,000 words of Makers were serialized on Salon some years ago under the title Themepunks.

Starting today around noon (Eastern Standard Tribe, of course), and throughout the rest of the year, Tor.com will be serializing Makers, Cory Doctorow's upcoming novel, which goes on sale from Tor Books in Novemb er. We'll be serializing the entirety of the novel, with a new installment every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, until the whole thing is finished, sometime in January 2010. Each installment of Makers will be accompanied by a new illustration by Idiots'Books (idiotsbooks.com), which will interconnect with the other illustrations in the series, and offer limitless possibilities for mixing and matching the illustrations in the series. In a week or so, after we've posted a number of tiles, we'll release a Flash game in which users will be able to re-arrange the illustration tiles on a grid and create their own combination of layouts.

I'm planning on repeating the tribute to booksellers I made with the free release of Little Brother, introducing every section of the serial with a little hymn to some bookstore or other; booksellers are clearly on the side of the angels (I speak as a former bookseller!).

However, I'm doing this one a little differently; rather than write up my favorite booksellers, I'm asking for your favorite bookstores -- in the comments for each section of the serial, I'd like you to write up testimonials for your favorite stores. I'll pick three every week to add to that week's installments, by way of spreading the love around.

Announcing Cory Doctorow’s Makers on Tor.com

Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 1 (of 81)

(Thanks, Pablo!)

7 Responses to “Makers serialized online”

1. Michael Kirkland says:

   July 6, 2009 at 9:39 am

   Crafty marketing releasing the dead tree edition when people are halfway through the syndication ;)
2. pwiggi says:

   July 6, 2009 at 12:10 pm

   It would be great if one could get an RSS feed of only the Makers stuff from tor's site...

   I just discovered FeedRinse as a possible way to do this (feedrinse.com), but I can't seem to make it work... maybe someone else will have more success.
3. Andrew says:

   July 6, 2009 at 3:02 pm

   I'd like to second the request for an RSS feed.

   Off to write about my favorite local bookstore!
4. Bill Seitz says:

   July 15, 2009 at 10:34 am

   What's the total word count? Has the first 50k been re-written?

   I really enjoyed the Salon series.
5. Cory Doctorow says:

   July 15, 2009 at 10:57 am

   It clocks in at 185,000 words! There's been quite a bit of rewriting in the opening.
6. Read Cory Doctorow’s Makers For Free « Coolbeans says:

   July 16, 2009 at 6:03 pm

   [...] novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow announced the release of his new novel, Makers — with a price tag of zero. Makers tells the story of a [...]
7. Jack de Klerk says:

   September 12, 2009 at 3:16 am

   It seems that as always, Cory is leading the book world with new, FUN idea's to keep a dead tree world very much alive.

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