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[Permuted Press]

Anybody keeping up with THE HOLE?  What do you think?

[Aaron Powell]

I can't answer the question, but I should point out that the audiobook podcast of the novel has been launched.  A good friend of mine is reading and recording the published parts and they're quite good.

http://www.aaronrosspowell.com/thehole/audiobook/

[Permuted Press]

I can't answer the question, but I should point out that the audiobook podcast of the novel has been launched.  A good friend of mine is reading and recording the published parts and they're quite good.

http://www.aaronrosspowell.com/thehole/audiobook/

Awesome!

[DreamingNeonBlack]

Haven't caught up with it in about a month. But I've read everything up until then. Great stuff.

[Veronica]

I've been reading it from the start. I usually rip through a book and all these online novels. I enjoy reading in general but especially zombie novels, so it's been kind of hard having to wait and all for each chapter to trickle out.

What's with the metal box? The weird cult's purpose?( the cult was freakier then the zombies?What was with the evil spirits? The green crystals? Are they still heading towards the hole?
It's not really as scarey since they aren't traditional zombies but it has been suspenseful.

[Bobbie]

This is one of the things I keep meaning to look into.  It's always hard for me to read things online.  The screen puts me into a trance or something, but I do intend to check this out in the near future.

[Aaron Powell]

it's been kind of hard having to wait and all for each chapter to trickle out.

I haven't been good about that, and I apologize.  My goal has always been five-hundred words a day, which means a new part posted every other day (I post whenever I have a thousand new words written).  But law school finals killed the schedule and then the holidays with a long vacation without my computer (writing by hand simply doesn't work for me) brought and even longer lull.  The good news is, classes start again on Monday and with them my time management gets a huge boost.  So, yeah, should be able to expect a little better than a trickle from here on out.

What's with the metal box? The weird cult's purpose?( the cult was freakier then the zombies?What was with the evil spirits? The green crystals? Are they still heading towards the hole?

Since the book has passed the half way point, I'm going to start answering a lot of those questions.  In fact, in the last part posted, I asked readers to post the questions they want cleared up in the comments, especially the little ones.  That way I can't forget any -- a real risk in a manuscript I've been working on for close to a year.

It's not really as scarey since they aren't traditional zombies but it has been suspenseful.

I agree.  For me, the book has always been more of a religious mystery/secret history/adventure with strong horror elements.  Billing it as a zombie story was probably somewhat misleading.  The truth is, when I started the book, I intended the crazies to be more zombie-like (I intended it to be a genuine zombie novel) -- but they simply didn't evolve that way.  And now, with these last couple parts, it's getting difficult to even think of them as bad guys.

I assure you, however, that more straight up horror elements are on their way.

Thank you for reading it and thank you for posting your thoughts.  I love knowing people are actually reading the story.

[Aaron Powell]

This is one of the things I keep meaning to look into.  It's always hard for me to read things online.  The screen puts me into a trance or something, but I do intend to check this out in the near future.

I know that reading at length on the computer screen is difficult for a lot of people (myself included) and so getting caught up on the sixty-thousand existing words of the story is kind of off-putting.  One of the reasons I publish in thousand word chunks is to make reading each manageable in a browser or in your email.  But that does nothing if you're fifty-four parts behind.

In light of all that, and if you feel like you want to print the thing out to read it that way, I'd be more than happy to email you a PDF.  Just send me a private message here or drop me a line at aaronpowell@gmail.com with your email address and I'll send it over.

[Permuted Press]

Or maybe there will be a print edition someday?   

[Aaron Powell]

Or maybe there will be a print edition someday?   

I certainly hope so.

But, hey, if I'm making this first draft available for free, I might as well make it available for anyone who wants to read it.  Now, if they want to hold off and buy that revised and published edition instead...

[Zombie Zak]

Why not do both?   

[Veronica]

Wow! thanks for the quick response....I just wanted to say I didn't mean it to sound like a complaint about waiting for new chapters. It was more like whining.
I really appreciate all the people who take the time to write online novels for FREE. There are several books I bought only cause I was able to really get into them after reading them posted first. Like John dies in the end by DavidWong it was so so funny and surprisingly scarey and creepy.I had a moment were I was looking over my shoulder and doing a double take in the mirror after reading it.
Also all the The Monster PLanet series by David Wellington rock and everything else he's done so far.
I actually started reading his this novel and his last one at the same time.Can't wait to see how the story develops.RRRRRrrrr

[PatM]

I never read the book, but I saw the movie by the same name. Teens caught in an old abandoned bomb shelter in the ground. If that's the same one it wasn't bad.

[Dennis McCann]

I've been reading The Hole since the beginning, when Aaron first debuted it on Newsvine. Great stuff.

[kate]

I´m enjoying the book, when each part arrives in my inbox I´m all wide eyed and excited and then when I´ve finished reading I´m going arrgh I want more.
I´m one for reading a book straight through, (can´t put a good book down) so reading a book in installments is a lesson in patience for me.

I like the Hole because it is different. With a lot of books it is fairly easy to see where the plot is going but not with this one, 63 chapters in and we are just starting to find out what´s what, I´m hooked till the end.