Posts Tagged ‘best-selling author’
Digital publishing revolution
April 26th, 2011
There’s an interesting article on e-publishing in the Irish Times by Declan Burke who recently bought back the rights to his own conventionally published debut novel and then re-published it on Kindle.
Burke argues convincingly that the arrival of the ebook won’t make printed books obsolete, but it will have a fundamental impact on the way mainstream publishers operate in the future. He quotes Stephen Leather, a best-selling author of conventionally published crime thrillers who has recently begun publishing his backlist in electronic form: “Publishers will [..] have to take back the role that they relinquished to agents over the years,” he says, “and start to look for new talent again. In America, Amanda Hocking has gone from selling more than a million self-published vampire and zombie ebooks to signing a $2 million deal with a leading publisher. I think the smart publishers will all now be looking for the next Amanda Hocking. And the best place for that is to take a look at the ebook bestseller list.”
Read the full article here: Irish Times
Posted in Places to Publish, Places to Read New Fiction, Writing News | 
Tags: Amanda Hocking, Amazon, best-selling author, bought back rights, conventionally published, conventionally published crime thrillers, Declan Burke, e-publishing, Kindle, publishing revolution, re-publishing backlist in electronic form, search for new talent, Stephen Leather, the Irish Times | 
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Novel Women assemble at the ICA on Wed 16 Feb
January 21st, 2011
Women are well represented, both behind the scenes in publishing, and at the checkout in terms of fiction sales. So why is it that when it comes to lists and prizes, novels written by men still dominate?
A fantastic panel will assemble at the ICA on Wed 16 Feb, 7pm, to debate this question: Kate Mosse, best-selling author and co-founder of the Orange Prize, Lennie Goodings from Virago Press, Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC and judge of the Orange and Samuel Johnson prizes, Antonia Byatt, Director of Literature at the Arts Council and former Director of the Women’s Library, and Professor Mary Evans researcher in literature and gender at the Gender Institute.
Click here to book a ticket for this event.
Posted in Places to Publish, Writing News |
Tags: Antonia Byatt, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, best-selling author, co-founder of the Orange Prize, Director of Literature at the Arts Council, former Director of the Women's Library, ICA talk, judge of the Orange Prize, Kate Mosse, Lennie Goodings, Professor Mary Evans, the Gender Institute, the Samuel Johnson Prize, Virago Press |
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