Remember Polly Courtney? (She Dumped HarperCollins)

gothicangel · Jun 16, 2013

Remember Polly Courtney who dumped HarperCollins to go back to self-publishing with Matador?

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=224869

Neither did I, until I read this interview with Courtney in today's Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...oice-of-the-recession-generation-8660264.html

I have to say I'm eating humble pie for dinner. She sounds like a very articulate and intelligent writer. I think I will certainly have to read some of her work.

Phaeal · Jun 16, 2013

Second link is identical to the first.

gothicangel · Jun 16, 2013

Phaeal said:
Second link is identical to the first.

Fixed it. That's what you get for internet-surfing, when you are meant to be studying the Greek polis.

djf881 · Jun 16, 2013

You can tell her decision to self-publish was a well-educated one, based on a sophisticated knowledge of the publishing industry because her self-published books are not available as e-books.

Way to go Polly!

gothicangel · Jun 17, 2013

djf881 said:
You can tell her decision to self-publish was a well-educated one, based on a sophisticated knowledge of the publishing industry because her self-published books are not available as e-books.

Way to go Polly!

Umm, yes they are.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Defying-Gravity-ebook/dp/B004DNWRK6/ref=sr_1_6_bnp_1_kin?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371456657&sr=1-6&keywords=polly+courtney

And through Avon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Day-I-Died-ebook/dp/B002RI9U22/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371456657&sr=1-5&keywords=polly+courtney

Perhaps having published already on ebook format, she has yet to see it be worthwhile releasing an ebook, and waiting to see how the paperback does?

djf881 · Jun 17, 2013

gothicangel said:
Umm, yes they are.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Defying-Gravity-ebook/dp/B004DNWRK6/ref=sr_1_6_bnp_1_kin?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371456657&sr=1-6&keywords=polly+courtney

And through Avon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Day-I-Died-ebook/dp/B002RI9U22/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371456657&sr=1-5&keywords=polly+courtney

Perhaps having published already on ebook format, she has yet to see it be worthwhile releasing an ebook, and waiting to see how the paperback does?

The second book you linked is not self-published.

Neither Golden Handcuffs nor Feral Youth is available in e-book format. Trying to sell a self-published book in print is a terrible plan, because bookstores do not stock self-published books. The biggest hook self-pub authors have is low prices on e-books.

Amarie · Jun 17, 2013

Feral Youth has a release date of July 1st in the UK on Amazon and August 1st on Amazon U.S. When you self publish, I'm not sure your ebooks show up for prerelease orders before the actual publication date.

K. Taylor · Jun 17, 2013

Amarie said:
Feral Youth has a release date of July 1st in the UK and August 1st in the U.S. When you self publish, I'm not sure your ebooks show up for prerelease orders before the actual publication date.

Correct. Only Kobo and ARe allow pre-order links. Everywhere else is release day the day you upload.

gothicangel · Jun 17, 2013

djf881 said:
The second book you linked is not self-published.

My point was that she has ebooks available as a self-publisher and as trade published, and raised the hypothesis that maybe she didn't see the value in releasing an ebook. However, Amarie raises an excellent point, and think she is right.

Courtney has been writing for quite a while, and the ebook boom is still in its infancy.

veinglory · Jun 17, 2013

I think the ebook boom is officially an adolescent at the very least.

PollyCourtney · Jun 26, 2013

Hi all!
Thanks so much for your interest in my novels. My latest novel, Feral Youth, is out today, which is why you wouldn't have seen it before now. (K Taylor is correct; Amazon doesn't allow pre-order on Kindle SP editions.) The link is here if you want to check it out: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DM9YJ6W/?tag=absowrit-21

Amazon is also part-way through publishing second editions of some of my other books (Golden Handcuffs, Poles Apart), so they're also appearing as we speak.

Thanks again for the thread!
Polly

Remember Polly Courtney? (She Dumped HarperCollins)

gothicangel

Toughen up.

Phaeal

Whatever I did, I didn't do it.

gothicangel

Toughen up.

djf881

AW Addict

gothicangel

Toughen up.

djf881

AW Addict

Amarie

carpe libri

K. Taylor

Bah Humbug

gothicangel

Toughen up.

veinglory

volitare nequeo

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