Nick Kolakowski is an influential technology journalist and fiction writer, with a particular (but not exclusive) emphasis on crime genre fiction. I've followed his career very closely over the past decade or so, partly because his career path is similar to mine, and also because he's so very different.
From his early work for a magazine intended as a manifestation of US "soft diplomacy" to his very recent novel, Absolute Unit, Nick Kolakowski knows a thing or two about publishing. Our discussion covers the use of blogging and other social media for marketing purposes, how small and independent presses punch above their weight, using Amazon reviews and Goodreads, and what the growing market share for e-books portends for writers.
