Hi everyone!
I self-pubbed a novelette/collection of essays written as a quirky, laugh-out-loud "lessons from my mother" meant to celebrate the special bond between a mother and daughter. I wrote/pubbed this as a "mother's day gift" to my own mother, but it sold THOUSANDS of copies and event hit some top selling lists for Kindle - and is currently a 5-star on Amazon.
Given the success (and fun) of that project, I'd like to take the book, pull it off the market, and take it up to a full length (maybe 60k-ish words) and try to pitch it as a memoir later this year.
Does anyone have advice, guidance, suggestions? Is it ok to take a self-pub project, rewrite, and try to pitch to an agent? Do the numbers from Amazon mean anything?
I self-pubbed a novelette/collection of essays written as a quirky, laugh-out-loud "lessons from my mother" meant to celebrate the special bond between a mother and daughter. I wrote/pubbed this as a "mother's day gift" to my own mother, but it sold THOUSANDS of copies and event hit some top selling lists for Kindle - and is currently a 5-star on Amazon.
Given the success (and fun) of that project, I'd like to take the book, pull it off the market, and take it up to a full length (maybe 60k-ish words) and try to pitch it as a memoir later this year.
Does anyone have advice, guidance, suggestions? Is it ok to take a self-pub project, rewrite, and try to pitch to an agent? Do the numbers from Amazon mean anything?
