Selfpubbed thriller gets 2 mil. deal

IHeartWriting · Oct 24, 2007

Saw in PW that THE LACE READER a supernatural thriller by Brunonia Barry ended up with a 2 million dollar deal from William Morrow after auction.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6493081.html

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/10/debut_author_brunonia_barry_sc.html

Marlys · Oct 24, 2007

There's another thread about it here.

Will Lavender · Oct 25, 2007

Very cool story. (And it sounds like a very cool novel, as well.)

William Morrow is one of those houses that seems to take a lot of chances. They took that lawyer's book out of the slush last year. They're also doing some neat stuff in the (gasp) horror genre. Very interesting publishing house, IMO.

IHeartWriting · Oct 26, 2007

This is an interesting story all around.

Apparently the author had hired a PR firm (I know this becase when I blogged about it a couple of days ago, someone from the PR firm commented on my blog).

Selfpubbed thriller gets 2 mil. deal

IHeartWriting

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Marlys

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Will Lavender

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