We assume that we can add on a lot of value, expertise, and resources to the book’s re-publication, so it can have a greater success for all involved.
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These kinds of numbers show that there is, in fact, a market for the book, that there’s something original and compelling about it, and that the author knows how to self-market and publicize it. We’re impressed with sales over 5,000 copies. It demonstrates that this isn’t a random hobby but a passion, something the writer really cares about. It takes courage and a lot of time and energy to write, edit, design, pay for the copies, and then sell them one way or another. We appreciate an author who has the conviction and confidence to invest in self-publishing. Indication of the writer’s courage and confidence Top four reasons self-published books get signed upġ. Overlook is a very fine and classy small literary publisher founded and run by Peter Mayer, a publishing star and, incidentally, an old friend. Proof that self-published books can generate intense interest among competing publishers.Ĭase in point: David Carnoy, an author we featured here in an earlier post called The unvarnished truth about self publishing, just reported that his novel, Knife Music, was picked up by Overlook Press for publication in July, 2010. We offered a good advance to take over the book, but McGraw-Hill put up twice as much. We lost an auction for another self-published book by a Berkeley psychologist about coping with and reducing women’s anger. We changed the name of our version to Building a Love that Lasts: The Seven Surprising Secrets of Successful Marriage. In this case, very little developmental editing was needed, another plus, since it’s always great for publishers to receive a polished manuscript ready to go into production. professors and as very active trainers on the relationship education and workshop circuit, with back-of-the-room sales at every event. They had built a terrific platform, both in the academic world as Ph.D. The authors, Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz, were a husband-and-wife team who’d been married themselves for more than 42 years. It had also won several prizes, including the Gold Medal for “Best Relationship Book” from the Indie Book Awards. Under that title, the book had already sold 8,000 copies since published in hardcover just four months earlier. The second self-published book I bought recently was called Golden Anniversaries, a fresh approach to sustaining a long-term marriage. We also did a lot of developmental editing on the book, focusing it more on a program of how-to-write a memoir, and adding excellent case examples that were each highly readable stories in their own right.Ģ. We changed the title from the original Becoming Whole to one more descriptive: The Power of Memoir – Writing Your Healing Story. While most of us tend to go the traditional route of approaching a Public Relations Agency, we were impressed with her growing platform and proven ability to sell her own book. She’d also founded and directed a new organization called the National Association of Memoir Writers under whose auspices these training occurred. The author had published the book herself and sold nearly 5,000 copies in a relatively short time at lectures, training, and weekend workshops. We knew that memoir writing and publishing were thriving and continuing to grow, and this how-to book on writing a healing memoir was something no one had done before. The first was an original approach to writing a memoir by Linda Joy Myers. Here are a couple of recent examples of self-published books I signed up for our current list at Jossey-Bass, the west coast imprint of John Wiley and Sons.ġ. Scroll down for the top four reasons self-published books get picked up If it’s a platform like ingramspark that helps aspiring authors get their name out there, then this could be the stepping stone to one day landing a successful book deal! Small steps generally lead to bigger opportunities. Don’t listen to those persistent rumors and urban myths that agents and editors won’t take on books the authors have published themselves. That’s the truth of the matter, despite the worries I hear from writers that self-publishing could doom their hopes of ever landing a real book deal. A successfully self-published book can propel you down the road to a book contract at a commercial publishing house.
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