There might be something to internet self-publishing after all. Marta Acosta, author of the Casa Dracula series, was having a hard time getting traction on her YA novel, The Shadow Girl of Birch Grove. So she published it on Scrib’d, where it became the #1 YA novel and got some rave reviews from vampire sites. And now Tor is publishing it.
Acosta told i09: “My book had been with Tor and a few other publishers since last October. We hadn’t heard anything back and I was beginning to despair. That’s when I put the book online as a free read. I don’t know that having it on Scribd inspired the offer, but I was able to get reviews that were presented to the editor who expressed interest. Also showing her the number of reads made a difference.”
http://io9.com/5585539/author-posts-her-vampire-novel-online-for-free–and-gets-an-awesome-book-deal
Book Jacket:
Jane Williams has suffered personal tragedy and learned to survive by hiding in the shadows of life. She thinks she will never escape the misery of her foster home when she’s offered a full-scholarship at an elite academy. The school even offers Jane a place of her own to live, the old groundskeeper’s cottage in a dense grove of birch trees.
The very pale and very elegant headmistress, Mrs. Monroe, is especially kind and suggests that Jane earn spending money by tutoring her son, gorgeous Lucky. A popular group of girls take Jane into their circle, and the challenging classes are all she could have hoped for.
It seems too good to be true. It is.
http://vampirewire.blogspot.com/2010/07/great-news-tor-buys-shadow-girl-of.html
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