Christian Writing: How Self-Publishing Allowed An Environmental Lawyer Became a Best-Selling Fiction Author Pt1
Self-publishing is upending the book industry. One woman's unlikely road to a hit novel.
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How Self-Publishing Allowed An Environmental Lawyer Became a Best-Selling Fiction Author Pt1
By ALEXANDRA ALTER – Wall Street Journal Books http://goo.gl/MztwL
This summer, Darcie Chan's debut novel became an unexpected hit. It has sold more than 400,000 copies and landed on the best-seller lists alongside brand-name authors like Michael Connelly, James Patterson and Kathryn Stockett.
It's been a success by any measure, save one. Ms. Chan still hasn't found a publisher.
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Five years ago, Ms. Chan's novel, "The Mill River Recluse" which tells the story of a wealthy Vermont widow who bestows her fortune on town residents who barely knew her, would have languished in a drawer. A dozen publishers and more than 100 literary agents rejected it.
"Nobody was willing to take a chance," Read More »Christian Writing: How Self-Publishing Allowed An Environmental Lawyer Became a Best-Selling Fiction Author Pt1