British writer Louise Voss had a hard time selling her novel Catch Your Death to literary agents, so she decided to self publish her book in the Kindle UK Store. Hoping to attract readers to an unknown author, Voss priced the eBook at the low price of £0.95.
The low price helped Voss’s book climb the Amazon charts. eBookNewser has more: “The eBook is currently No. 4 in the ‘Suspense’ category of the Kindle UK Store. According to the London Standard the book held the No. 1 position in the Kindle UK Store for the month of June where it sold 50,000 copies.”
These sales soon caught the eye of a major publisher. The London Evening Standard has more: “It attracted the attention of publishers HarperFiction, which offered her a six-figure, four-book deal. As a result, her ebook Catch Your Death will also be printed and stocked in bookshops in the traditional way.”
Voss wrote GalleyCat with with an important update: “The two thrillers were co-written with my friend Mark Edwards (@mredwards), and the HarperCollins deal is a joint one for us as a partnership. It was Mark’s idea to put the books on Kindle, and he came up with all the good marketing ideas! The recent press has been more focused on me as a press release went out from the Uni where i did my Creative Writing MA — but it’s been rather unrepresentative of the true facts: that we’re an equal partnership: Edwards and Voss. I feel bad he’s not getting the credit he’d due!”