From themelissablair's ABrokenBlade to scarlettstclai1's ATouchofDarkness and more, several popular recent releases got their start as self-published works. alanajoli digs into how these titles find new and bigger audiences at traditional houses.
The author’s name was a mystery. Only twenty-five copies of the physical novel existed in the world, all mailed out to BookTokers with a letter explaining the scavenger hunt.
Though Blair’s journey starts out sounding like a novel itself—anonymous author, scavenger hunt, and a mystery to solve, along with a thrilling anti-colonial tale of troubled assassin Keera—but according to her, it has only gotten better since she started her relationship with Union Square. “I realized very quickly withthat I didn’t know nearly enough about publishing to be doing it on my own, and certainly not at the level I was trying to debut at,” she explains.
Paolini made more than seventy appearances to promote the book before it was picked up by Alfred A. Knopf, along with two then-unwritten sequels, in 2003; the Knopf edition hit thebestseller list and stayed there for 121 weeks. The Inheritance Cycle ultimately came to encompass four books, a film adaptation of the Eragon , a supplemental guide to the world, and a collection of tales. Paolini’s recent adult novels,, both began their lives at Tor, with no self-published versions beforehand.
Though Theodore had originally been kicking around the idea of self-publishing, and had even gone so far as to commission original artwork for the cover. But when the offer from a small like-minded press came along, Theodore decided to work with them.releasing in 2019.
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