Writing a book? if you’ve been reading this blog, you know I’m a great believer in getting your name and work out there, whether it’s via a blog, or by self-publishing.

Who knows, you may just get a book deal.

Yes, it can happen. Jossey-Bass, the west coast imprint of John Wiley and Sons, for example, has just signed up a couple of self-published books.

How self publishing can lead to a real book deal reports:

“We changed the title from the original Becoming Whole to one more descriptive: The Power of Memoir – Writing Your Healing Story. 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.”

Publishers want to make money.

When you self-publish a book, it tells them that you’re serious; you’ve got a book out there. More to the point, the book is DONE. It’s written. They can read it, and as in the case above, they can help you to make it better — more salable, that is.

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The self-publishing company Author Solutions will be distributing writers’s books with Scribd.

This sounds like an excellent development, which will make Author Solutions’ books widely available, and this is always a good thing.

Scribd Inks Distribution Deal With Indie Book Publisher Author Solutions reports:

“In a statement, Author Solutions says the Scribd portal currently attracts over 50 million users per month, and that the startup’s platform will help authors make more money from book sales because it brings higher royalty percentages than are possible with traditional paper-and-ink books. In its promotion video, which I embedded below, Author Solutions says it has helped some 85,000 authors get their books published to date.”

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Zombie Mash-up Lands Author Six-Figure Deal – 4/9/2009 8:24:00 AM – Publishers Weekly reports:

“Seth Grahame-Smith’s surprise hit from Quirk Books, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, may have been launched as something of a lark, but that hasn’t stopped its author from landing a major deal. Grand Central Press editor Ben Greenberg has just inked a two-book deal with Grahame-Smith for a rumored $575,000; Grahame-Smith’s first book for GCP, which currently has no pub date, will be Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. (A rep from GCP would not comment on the size of the advance.)”

Now, lemme see…

Pride and Prejudice and Guppies

Pride and Prejudice and One Million Dalmations

Pride and Prejudice Lands on the Moon

Pride and Prejudice Rules for Marriage and Life…

(Feel free to steal any of the above. )

Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury has some unhappy authors.

Bloomsbury authors revolt over Harry Potter – Telegraph reports:

“One of their bestselling authors said: ‘I wouldn’t place another book with them.

‘They treat you with complete disregard and I know of four other writers who are very discontented.’”

Joanna Trollope has moved to Transworld, and the publisher has paid vast sums for celebrity “books” – viz “Gary Barlow, the singer with boy band Take That, received a £1 million advance for his autobiography, while the young boxer, Amir Khan, was said to have received £400,000 for his memoirs.”

Top white author admits she made up story of growing up with tough black gangs in LA | the Daily Mail reports:

“A memoir by a white woman who claimed she was raised in poverty by a black foster mother and sold drugs for a gang in a tough Los Angeles neighbourhood has admitted the book was pure fiction.”

Publisher Riverhead has cancelled author Margaret B. Jones’s book tour, and has recalled all copies of the book.

The story also notes:

An editor at Riverhead described the discovery as “upsetting” and as a “huge personal and professional betrayal.”

Yes, it is a betrayal. Whatever gets into some authors? A publisher invests money in an author, and then is, as the editor said, betrayed.

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