Xenophule

Hey Hugh!

Thanks for the great stories :) The Wool trilogy is my most lent-out books (I’ve had to re-purchase them many times haha). I have such a bad memory that I can watch the same movie eight months later and enjoy it like it’s new, but you wrote the Silo world so vividly that I can still virtually walk through it in my mind years after reading it.

That first chapter is probably the best opening of any series I’ve ever read—I tell people to just read the first chapter, and if they don’t like it the rest of the book is not for them (I’ve never encountered a person who didn’t like it).

I’ve had a pet-theory about the name “Wool” and I’m wondering how off-the-mark I am:

Knowing how it was self-published, I figured you named the story after the cloth they use to clean the camera lens; then the story got popular and you fleshed out the rest of the world, but kept the name “Wool” to let those people know that this next bit is part of the same world. My head-cannon also has you regretting that you couldn’t rename it “Silo” until it was too late?

Thanks again, and I’m looking forward to what you do with the series!

What is your least favorite season to shoot in and how do you motivate yourself to go take pictures then?

Ah! Thank you :) That does make more sense than my head cannon haha.

Thanks again for taking the time to answer me. Have an amazing evening.

I’m always afraid to enter contests lest my image is “stolen” by the people running the competition, but I’d love to be ‘award winning’ as well!

Any tips on getting over this fear, or is it substantiated?

Thanks in advance!

The original question I had in mind was: “What is your least favorite season to shoot in and why is it Summer?” haha

Thanks for the tips :)