Self-Publishing Can Pay Off … Big-Time

February 5, 2008 by Lillie 

Straight from Hel shared a self-publishing story that should encourage us all, even though most self-published authors don’t have this kind of success. Brunonia Barry self-published her novel then landed a huge publishing contract. Her agent turned down the first seven-figure offer from a major company and held a three-day auction. The result: a contract for more than $2 million dollars from William Morrow!

Salem author self-publishes herself into a novel $2m payday

Don’t start planning how to spend your two million dollars … but read everything this author did that led to her self-publishing success: everything recommended in the Self-Publishing Primer plus hiring a publicist that led to finding a distributor and getting a rave review in Publisher’s Weekly.

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Comment by Kevin
2008-02-06 17:08:20

Wow! This is encouraging for sure. Thanks for sharing this information, it is always helpful when trying to decide how to go about this same stuff myself!

 

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