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PW Select July 2012: All Our Coverage
All of the stories from the July 2012 PW Select supplement, a quarterly guide to what's new in the self-publishing industry. This edition includes 45 book reviews (including seven stars), listings for 184 new books, two author profiles, and analysis of a Bowker study about what sells best in the self-publishing market.
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PW Select July 2012: Reviews
Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction and Children's self-published titles from this round of PW Select submissions.
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PW Select July 2012: Announcement Listings
Our seventh PW Select features listings of 184 titles recently self-published, and our editors have chosen 45 for full PW reviews. For the first time, more than one title has merited a starred review—five, in fact: Dan Handfield’s novel, Touchback, based on the movie he wrote and directed, starring Kurt Russell; John Montandon’s “gentle memoir” about his father, a Texas farmer infected with AIDS; a memoir of Southern life “straight out of a Flannery O’Connor story,” by John Snyder; a POW tale by Ralph Poness; and Sondra Bernstein’s gorgeous cookbook, Plats du Jour—see our interview with Bernstein.
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PW Select July 2012: Rachel Abbot: My Bestselling Story
I remember vividly the moment I decided to become an independently, or, some would say, self-published author. I wish I could say it was a eureka moment, but it wasn’t. While browsing the Web last October, I discovered an article that said I could now publish in the Kindle Direct Publishing program. In the beginning, Amazon’s Kindle publishing program was restricted to U.S. bank account holders only, and I am a U.K. citizen now living in Italy. But with that barrier removed, I thought, “Why not?”
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PW Select July 2012: Sondra Bernstein: A Recipe for Self-Publishing
Chef and restaurateur Sondra Bernstein didn’t plan on self-publishing her second cookbook, Plats du Jour: The girl & the fig’s Journey Through the Seasons in Wine Country, but, in the end, found that the DIY approach gave her complete control over the project—and this, she says, was a great relief.
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PW Select July 2012: A Book Industry Couple Tries Self-Publishing
Liang, who writes under the pen name of Adrianne Wood, also happens to be married to Kuo-Yu Liang, v-p, sales and marketing, at Diamond Book Distributors; together the couple can boast of more than 30 years working in book publishing.
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PW Select July 2012: Taking the Measure of Self-Publishing
At the uPublishU conference held June 3 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York just before the official opening of BookExpo America, Kelly Gallagher, v-p of publisher services at Bowker, offered the most detailed analysis yet of the characteristics of the self-publishing market.
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Tracking Amazon: Terry Goodkind's Self-Published Novel Skyrockets
Bestselling fantasy author Terry Goodkind is self-publishing his latest novel, The First Confessor, which is already #28 on the Kindle bestseller list as of the morning of July 3.
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BEA 2012: Self-Published Titles Topped 211,000 in 2011
A nearly week-long period filled with BookExpo America events kicked off Sunday at the Javits Center as the uPublishU self-publishing seminar drew nearly 300 people attracted by panels and exhibitors offering the latest developments in the self-publishing field.
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Random Imprint Acquires Self-Pubbed Phenom on Journey to Heaven
WaterBrook Multnomah, the evangelical Christian imprint of Random House’s Crown Publishing Group, has acquired To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels and Life Again by Mary C. Neal, which she self-published in November 2011.
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PW Select April 2012: The Reviews
These are the books selected for review from all of the books listed in this installment of PW Select.
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PW Select April 2012: Spreadability: Books, Ideas and the Domino Project
Seth Godin, marketer extraordinaire, entrepreneurial maverick, and publishing visionary, says the latest exercise in reinventing publishing, the Domino Project, is an effort “not to be a hypocrite.” What he means is that after 25 years and 13 books often focused on what is wrong with the publishing industry, he set himself the task of showing the way forward.
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PW Select April 2012: Blurb Grows as Authors Benefit
In the five years since Blurb, the self-publishing platform, went live in mid-2006, the Silicon Valley startup has grown with the book publishing industry overall. Founded by Eileen Gittins, who was frustrated when she couldn’t find an affordable way to print 40 copies of her photography book, Five Hours in Napa, to give to friends, Blurb.com was launched to help others who wanted to make high-quality, one-off books of baby pictures, photo collections, or journals. Personal books continue to play an important role as Blurb moves forward, making up 50% of its business.
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PW Select April 2012: Self-Publishing Speeds Book to Reader: Matt Ivester
Unlike many authors who turn to self-publishing, Ivester didn’t receive a host of rejections from publishing houses. He didn’t send his manuscript out to agents. In fact, he never looked for representation of any kind. He simply didn’t have the time.
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PW Select April 2012: A Growing Chorus of Voices in DIY Publishing
This sixth PW Select quarterly—our first was in Dec. 2010—is our most robust: the most submitted titles and the most (52) that merited a review in our editors’ estimations. Among the highlights in fiction: a “confident debut” by Peter Christian Hall; Helena Soister’s Dan Brown–worthy thriller; a charming whodunit by Robin Lamont; and a winning portrait of the pre-AIDS gay community by Jeffrey Sharlach. In nonfiction, Stacy Dymalski’s “laugh-out-loud funny” mom memoir; and the enterprising Matt Ivester’s lol...OMG!, a guide to digital citizenship.
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PW Select April 2012: Reviews and a Look at the Self-Publishing Scene
Here's our complete Spring 2012 PW Select supplement, with reviews, features and listings of new self-published books.
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S&S Acquires Self-Pubbed 'Life's a Witch' in Three-Book Deal
Brittany Geragotelis's YA novel Life’s a Witch, self-published this fall via Amazon/CreateSpace, has been acquired at auction by Simon & Schuster in a three-book, six-figure deal.
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Swamped by Offers, Self-Pubbed YA Author Gets Agent and More
Since PW published a story about Brittany Geragotelis's novel Life's a Witch, the self-published author has been overwhelmed with inquiries from publishers, foreign rights agents and TV and film producers.
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PW Select January 2012
In this installment, in addition to listings and reviews of new self-published books, we talk to two authors whose PW Select titles were picked up by Amazon, look at a violin maker investing more than $1 million in a good self-publishing cause, and examine the beneficial relationship between e-books and self-publishing.
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A Self-Publishing Veteran: Vivian Yang
A decade before self-publishing her second novel, Memoirs of a Eurasian, with Amazon’s CreateSpace—a chapter of which won an award in the 2007 WNYC Leonard Lopate Essay Contest—Vivian Yang released her debut, Shanghai Girl, with Xlibris.
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