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Blending scientific studies, her own experience and real stories, the book. Bookouture has revealed the launch list for its new nonfiction imprint, thread, publishing leading experts and voices across a range of topics including selfdevelopment, personal finance. If you were lucky, an editor at one of the big publishing houses would have. Your submission has been received and were looking forward to reading it. Bookouture has sold over 35 million books since we started 7. Obsessed with all things crime related, her adult fiction titles include chelsea wives and wicked wives, both published by avon in the uk and bookouture in the us and canada, pleasure island published by bookouture, and black heart, the couple on cedar close and the strangers wife featuring di dan riley published by bookouture. Headed up by publisher claire bord who joined bookouture when it was a small startup with a team of three, thread is the publishing home of thoughtprovoking, inspiring and smartthinking ideas bringing together leading experts and voices across a range of topics, including selfdevelopment, personal finance, parenting, nutrition and. Amazon is very good for authors, especially new authors, because they dont care if your last book didnt sell, they dont care if youre a. Whilst bookouture has historically published crime, womens fiction and. In 20 it sold 81,000 ebooks, in 2014 362,000, in 2015 it sold 2. Ronas debut psychological thriller, keep you safe was released in august and her second novel, love you gone will be out on 15th november.
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May 24, 2017 and at the bookseller, editor philip jones, arguably the single most astute of all uk industry observers, noted that, when the publishers association report announces falling ebook sales, they dont count amazons numbers, of course, or bookoutures, or those from head of zeus, endeavour press, amazon publishing, or selfpublished writers. Our authors believe in a world which can be more thoughtful, more humane, and more beautiful. Bookouture is a digital imprint offering big publisher expertise, small publisher flexibility and high royalties. After doing so well under bookouture, the books got a print deal with the private publishing company. If you want to get your books ordered by traditional bookshops and libraries, then you need an alternative solution to publishing via amazons createspace. They pay 45% of net receipts royalty on ebooks to all their authors and are open to manuscripts from 40,000 words to 200,000 words. Bookouture is a digital imprint offering big publisher expertise, small publisher flexibility and great royalties. In the old dynamic of getting your book in print, authors basically had three options. Many thanks to publisher bookouture for my spot on this blog tour. In the uk, hachette has acquired independent ebook publisher bookouture in order to share expertise between the two companies, reports the bookseller. They can represent you at the major book fairs and sell your books to international markets.
Some guidelines for submitting to bookouture we are looking for fulllength, commercial fiction and some textlead nonfiction, but no childrens books, film scripts, poetry or short stories please send us a complete manuscript of your fulllength book in a clear font with double spacing if you have used track changes to edit your book, please. Amazon now has over a dozen active publishing imprints of its own. I can enjoy a weird story but this one was almost too crazy to finish. How to selfpublish your book through amazon forbes. The publishing process at bookouture is extraordinary, and i could not be happier with their choices for me. Earn up to 70% royalty on sales to customers in the us, canada, uk, germany, india. Bookouture hiring publishing executive in london, england. Publishing takes less than 5 minutes and your book appears on kindle stores worldwide within 2448 hours. Commercial fiction has always been my passion and in 2012 i set up and ran laws digital author publishing list, creating some notable kindle bestsellers in the process, including tracy bloom, tilly tennant, emma davies and sophie ranald all now bookouture authors.
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