POD author gets multiple book deal from...

New American Library (Penguin Putnam)

She lives in my area- made the city newspaper's front page today. You don’t see these things happen too often, I’m happy for her.

The Ties That Bind
(Paperback)
by Electa Rome Parks
ISBN: 0738854522 / Publisher: Xlibris Corporation / Date: June 2001 / Page Count: 179

The Ties That Bind
(Paperback)
by Electa Rome Parks
ISBN: 0451213211 / Publisher: New American Library / Date: Oct 2004 / Page Count: 192

Where I obtained the above info (visuals)

www.penguinputnam.com/

Goes to show there are many roads to success. Simply write a good book and go from there.

Of course, she could have probably gone Peguin without doing POD first...

A gentleman I spoke to one the Lulu.com message boards recently sold his children's novel to a publisher. He had it on Lulu for a while, and finally sold the book. The publisher asked him to take it off the internet, and he happily complied. It's not bad to publish your book while you're waiting for a larger publisher to pick it up.

Sometimes I wonder if that's the only way they'll ever READ it.

Yeah, she could've sent it to Penguin before going POD. And get rejected.

It's also good to remember lots of great books were self-published by authors. Kierkegaard fell in the street after retrieving the last of his money from the bank to publish his work. He became bedridden and died six months later. I hope none of us have that happen, but it's a good thing to know that self-publishing hasn't always been considered a 'vanity'. I think the Bible didn't find a major publisher at first, either.
K.

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The Knowing Skull said:

It's also good to remember lots of great books were self-published by authors. Kierkegaard fell in the street after retrieving the last of his money from the bank to publish his work. He became bedridden and died six months later. I hope none of us have that happen, but it's a good thing to know that self-publishing hasn't always been considered a 'vanity'. I think the Bible didn't find a major publisher at first, either.
K.

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I agree.

Kierkegaard? Tough break for him.

Recently, I read somewhere that a lulu.com novel (or book of poetry, maybe) was reviewed in Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine who boasts, and rightly so, a subscription pool of over 100,000. Not bad.

I never thought there was anything wrong with POD. It's just that some outfits

(Cough!)PublishAmerica(Cough!)

never had the writer's interest in mind. It's the snake oil charm thing all over again...

Anyway, good for the POD author who got a multiple book deal.

Congratulations to all self-published authors that get picked up by publishers! This will soon become the norm rather than the exception.

Cheers,
HG