Underqualified Advice, Drew Hayes
Underqualified Advice, Drew Hayes
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Underqualified Advice
(and Other Amusing Diversions)

Author: Drew Hayes

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 11 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/28/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor


Synopsis

My name is Drew Hayes, and for the past six years I've made my living as a writer. In that time, I've published twenty books, written hundreds of thousands of words, and made countless mistakes—most of which I like to think I've learned from.

Underqualified Advice (and Other Amusing Diversions) is my attempt to compile those lessons and share them with others, as well as have some fun along the way. Half of the book is dedicated to detailing specifics about writing, maneuvering the industry, and keeping fiscally afloat in largely unstable waters. The other half, however, is dedicated to pure fun: essays on extremely specific topics, flash fiction, and some bits that not even I know how to classify.

Even if you don't particularly need the advice, we could all use an amusing diversion from time to time.

About Drew Hayes

Drew Hayes graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in English. He is the author of many books, including NPCs and The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant. Drew lives in Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Janice on March 08, 2020

**The audio version, narrated by Kirby Heyborne (the voice of Drew's Fred, The Vampire Accountant series), is quite possibly even more entertaining than the read version. Leave a review, he says (begs). Grrrrr... I'm not a writer. I'm not a reviewer. I am a reader, nothing more, nothing less. But sin......more

Goodreads review by Becky on October 25, 2019

Only Drew Hayes could have made this work. His advice about writing is clear, helpful, and no-nonsense. As a sometimes writer, I found it both entertaining and useful. I enjoyed the silly bits even more, of course. Few writers are as naturally funny as this one. I could have done without the swears,......more

Goodreads review by Peter on September 21, 2022

Saw this on a sale on Audible and decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, I wasn't really the target market this book is aiming for, so I didn't get much from it. The humour wasn't for me and the advice was aimed at people just starting out with writing. The choice to intersplice flash fiction in......more

Goodreads review by Cloak88 on July 04, 2020

A compilation of 50/50 advice for writers and amusing humorous stories. A title right on the money. In summary this is a collection of Drew Hayes's blog posts and additional writings. With a mix of advice for writers and random and often hilarious observation, fictionalized versions of his own publis......more

Goodreads review by TinySalad on February 10, 2020

A mix of informative advice on being an author and fun diversions. The advice part aims mostly at the pragmatic side of writing, maxing money and such. So If you're an author it's probably good advice. But for the likes of me who can't be bothered to actually write anything there are still a few goo......more