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If you think it's impossible to be a success as a first-time novelist, you need to read the rest of this page. Here are the stories of authors who were successful in selling and promoting a debut novel and establishing a career as a novelist.
969 fiction deals were reported at Publishers Marketplace in 2004. Of those deals, 137 were for first novels. That's 14% of all fiction deals. Of course, only a percentage of all deals are reported to Publishers Marketplace, but the percentage of first novel deals is still probably close to 10% of all novel deals in any one year.
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Some famous first novels (bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners) include: Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles; F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise; Harper Lee's only novel To Kill a Mockingbird; Jay McInernay's Bright Lights, Big City; Margaret Mitchell's only novel Gone with the Wind; Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, David Guterson's Snow Fall on Cedars; Melinda Hayes's Mother of Pearl; Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies; Lauren Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada; Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, Laurie Notaro's Idiot Girls Action Adventure Club, Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees (4 million copies sold!), Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, Nicholas Sparks's The Notebook, Rebecca Well's Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Marjorie Kellogg's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, Janet Fitch's White Oleander, and Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason's The Rule of Four.
Bestselling mystery novelist Jonathan Kellerman wrote eight or nine unpublished novels when he was a psychologist, before selling his first book for $6,000 in 1983.
Kathy Reichs, author of the bestselling Temperance Brennan mystery series, bases her novels on her own practice as a forensic anthropologist. Her debut novel, Déjà Dead, was a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for best first novel. Her books now form the basis of the hit CBS TV show, Bones.
Novelist Stephenie Meyer's first three books, the Twilight series of vampire novels, has sold 5.3 million copies in the U.S. alone.
Jasper Fforde, author The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, told Newsday that he wrote four other unpublished novels prior to Eyre, and got 76 rejections before getting his first deal. He noted, “I thought, well, they obviously don't know what they're missing. I have a sort of arrogant, stubborn streak that keeps me going when people say no. I just carried on in my own sweet way. Which I think was a great help, because I realized I could just write whatever I wanted. There were no limits.”
James Patterson, author of many bestselling thrillers, had his first novel rejected many times before The Thomas Berryman Number was published in 1976.
Canadian Terry Fallis, a first-time author published his humorous novel The Best Laid Plans via print-on-demand. Besides selling tons of copies, he also won Canada's most prestigious award for literary humor, the Stephen Leacock Medal, in 2008.
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From Sharon Silvas, Editorial Director of Spinsters Ink:
Good news for first time novelists! As Editorial Director for Spinsters Ink, I chose The Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish as my first book for our newly acquired company. I was halfway through the manuscript and was so very excited by this book that I called Kris and asked her if it was a multiple submission. It was not. I told her I was halfway through it and that I wanted it! Her reply was, “But you're only halfway through it!” Nevermind.
Long story short: we published the book in July. It made the pick for Small Press Review Sept/Oct., BookSense 76 pick for Nov./Dec., and Publishers Weekly pick in December. It caught the eye of a book buyer for BookWorks in Albuquerque, Susan Wasson, who put it in the hands of every publisher's rep she could find. The book is phenomenal and has become a favorite of book clubs. Now the best news! We have sold world rights to Bantam/Dell! They will come out with the trade paperback in June.
So much for first time novelists! Kris did have two nonfiction books in her bag and she is a professional journalist, so her credentials are there. We loved the book and marketed it with all our power. It is often the small publishers that stick their necks out, take the plunge, and only occasionally come up with the prize! This is the first time in Spinsters Ink 25-year history that such a sale has been made. Let's hear it for small book publishers!
“I wrote to you shortly before BEA in an attempt to get information on what I should do to get publishers interested in my self-published book. You told me to research the publishing houses and see which ones best fit my book. Well, I picked the top 24 and made press kits for those publishers. I also passed out business cards, brief bios, and a run down on what my book was about. Anyways, long story short, when I got back, I sorted through several offers and finally came to terms with a Kensington Books. Thanks for all your help and for your 1001 Ways to Market Your Books.” — Love, Kisses, and Trailer Park Wishes, Ruby Ann Boxcar
In 2004, the first novel by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, The Rule of Four, hit the #5 slot on the PW bestseller list in its first week out the door. The novel went back to press 10 times in that first week to increase the number of copies from 65,000 to 300,000. The first novel, with its secret codes, ancient text, intrigue, scholarship, art, and treachery, was sold as a perfect follow-up to the 7,000,000-copy bestseller, The DaVinci Code.
Kim Edwards found great success with her first novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Published in 2005, it sold 55,000 copies in hardcover and more than 2.5 million copies in trade paperback, making it to #1 on USA Today's Bestselling Books list. As a result, USA Today selected her novel as the Book of the Year for 2006. As they put it:
“Book clubs and word of mouth helped send MKD to Kite Runner heights, and once you've read this heartwrenching story, it's easy to understand why it has connected with millions of readers. On a stormy winter's night in the 1960s, a doctor delivers his own twins. One is a perfect son; the other is a daughter with Down syndrome. He tells his wife the little girl died, and his lie reverberates across the years and affects every character. Prepare for tear-blotched pages and a redemptive, hopeful ending that makes the tears easier to bear.”
As the debut novel of 2006, USA Today selected Thomas Mullen's The Last Town on Earth, which they called “an absorbing depiction of a utopian town that attempts to keep the 1918 flu epidemic at bay.”
Bob Guiney sold his inspirational memoir, The Funny Guy from The Bachelorette, to Amy Hertz for Tarcher/Putnam after she sat behind him on an airplane. That's why it pays to talk about your book everywhere. His memoir was about being dumped by his wife, gaining 40 pounds, auditioning for the Bachelorette and, though not winning the girl's hand, winning America's heart.
At the age of 40, journalist Melinda Haynes discovered her love for writing fiction. She would work late every night writing short stories and working on a novel. While she loved telling stories, she was not a salesperson. She just didn't get around to trying to sell her work (she suffers from panic disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome). So her husband Ray mailed out her first two short stories to a literary journal — where they were accepted immediately. He then secretly sent a literary agent the first 117 pages of the novel she was working on. The agent loved the book and within a few months sold the novel, Mother of Pearl, to Hyperion. Her novel was published in 1999 and soon became a bestseller, which allowed Melinda to become a full-time author. Even before they knew the book would be a bestseller, Ray quit his job to accompany her on her book tour. A year later, though, he returned to full time work so he could feel like he, too, was contributing to the family's fortunes.
Judge Martin Clark's first book, The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, was a Book of the Month Club selection, was nominated for the Stephen Crane Award for First Novel of the Year, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and appeared on several bestseller lists. Yahoo!
First time thriller writer Michael Lawson got the attention of his agent, David Gernert, with his short pitch letter and the first sentence to his prologue. That first sentence was so sharp and poignant that the agent immediately picked up the phone and asked Michael to send him the rest of the manuscript. If his pitch letter hadn't been short, Gernert would not have read it. If the first sentence hadn't been extraordinary, he would never have asked Michael for the rest of his novel. But because they were, Gernert signed Lawson up as a client and soon had a two-book deal with Doubleday for The Inside Ring and a second book called Miss July. Foreign rights were soon sold to the U.K. and Holland with other countries also interested. As a result, Lawson took early retirement from a shipyard job to devote himself to writing fiction.
Ellen Baker, an aspiring novelist, left her job as a museum curator and became a part-time bookseller at J.W. Beecroft Books in Superior, Wisconsin, so she'd have time to write her novel. Well, it worked for her. She had time to write, supportive co-workers, and a chance to read new novels herself. She was able to get a two-book deal with Random House, with her debut novel coming out in the summer of 2007.
After a week of radio debates, the Canada Reads competition selected Heather O'Neill's debut novel Lullabies for Little Criminals as their next book for the entire country to read.
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Here's what Sue Monk Kidd, author of the bestselling first-time novel, The Secret Life of Bees, has to say about book tours: “You work in isolation so much, and here's this moment when you are face-to-face with these people who are reading your work.”
As for writing novels, she says, “I work primarily out of my imagination. ... My life wasn't that interesting.”
Her first novel, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for a year and a half, has sold more than 4 million copies. Her second novel, The Mermaid Chair, has also hit the bestseller list.
Susan E. Hinton wrote her best-selling novel of the rift between upper and lower class teens in Tulsa, Oklahoma, The Outsiders, when she was only 15 years old. The book was published in 1967 when she was only 17. The novel has since sold more than 14 million copies, including more than 400,000 in 2005. In 1983, Francis Ford Coppola released a movie starring Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, and Emilio Estevez.
Suzanna Clarke's first novel, the bestselling Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, won the 2005 Hugo award for the best science fiction novel. Her massive novel centers on the clash of egos between a pair of magicians in an alternative history where Napoleon's army is defeated by a fleet of cloud ships.
Known as much for her good looks as for her talent, Marisha Pessl went up the bestseller lists for her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
Unknown author Jennifer Weiner was turned down by 23 agents before finding one who thought a novel about a plus-size heroine would sell. Her book, Good in Bed, became a bestseller. The lesson? Don't take 23 agents word for it. Find the 24th that believes in you and your book.
Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar, submitted 45 pieces to Seventeen magazine before her first story was published. All the other submissions were rejected.
Chad Kultgen, formerly a writer with the Weekly World News tabloid, sold rights to his first novel Average American Male to Harper Perennial with the help of agent Alex Glass of Trident Media. His agent also sold TV rights to Showtime for a scripted series produced by Section 8 Productions (owned by actor George Clooney and Grant Heslov). Harper will publish his first novel in the summer of 2007. Kultgen is a graduate of the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California.
Harper Lee wrote only one novel, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird. Her novel still sells 750,000 copies every year!
Bookseller Valerie Ryan loved Jim Lynch's first novel, The Highest Tide, so much that she made others promise to read the book. Her review: “Such flat-out good writing that it brings pleasure on every page. The best book I have read in ages.” Marilyn Dahl, a reviewer for the Shelf Awareness ezine wrote “Lynch's prose compels one to read passages aloud to whomever is within earshot. And I'm surprised at my unexpected desire to be at the shore in the dark, during low tide, headlamp alight, turning over rocks and really looking, like Miles in the story, observing the wonders at hand and underfoot. ... This is a book to keep and to cherish. It is a perfect gift. Along with a flashlight and waders.”
New novelist Jane Guill, author of Nectar From a Stone, provides the following advice: “Getting short stories published in magazines eventually brought a call from Nat Sobel, a great literary agent.”
The larger publishers like to publish new authors and help break them out. As Warner Books publicist Susan Richman notes, “A discovery is what really makes this business exciting. We love publishing our big-name authors, but when a new writer breaks out of the pack, that's a special thrill — to spread the word to fans who are eager to read someone new and terrific.”
Putnam senior editor David Highfill notes, “Anything truly fresh can be catnip to reviewers and readers alike.”
Khaled Hosseini, author of the bestselling novel, The Kite Runner, almost never finished the novel. He started by writing a short story in 1999 after viewing a TV news report about his native Afghanistan. Then, as he reports, “The short story sat around for two years. Then I went back to it in March 2001. My wife had dug it up. I found her reading it, and she was kind of crying, and she said, ‘This is really a nice short story.’ She gave it to my father-in-law, and he loved it. He said, ‘I wish it had been longer.’ So then I said maybe there's something in the story that's really touching people. Maybe I should think about going back to it and see if there's a book in it.” The moral? Don't give up. Keep writing. You never know who you will touch with your story.
The novel has sold more than 4 million copies in three years. The movie version will be released in the fall of 2007.
One of my clients and a debut author:
Before selling Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan's first novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life to Little, Brown, literary agent Jennifer Rudolph Walsh of William Morris referred the author to 17th Street Productions, a packager who helped the author to develop her fiction ideas. As Walsh noted in an interview, “We all recognized that Kaavya had the craftsmanship. She's beautiful and charming. She just needed to find the right novel that would speak to her generation and to people beyond her years as well. We worked on it some more and sold it for oodles and boodles of money.”
Kaavya is a product of admissions frenzy (her novel is described as chick lit meets admissions frenzy). Her parents paid at least $10,000 to a college applications counseling service. Admiring Kaavya's writing, the head of the service put her in touch with the William Morris Agency which sold the novel to Little, Brown.
But, don't do what she did in writing the novel. Don't plagiarize. That's just stupid.
Agent Christopher Schelling sold Christopher Barzak's first novel, One for Sorrow, to Bantam Dell by pitching it as The Lovely Bones meets Catcher in the Rye.
Sonya Kate Childers's first novel Tides of Time merges contemporary women's fiction with country music. Sonya was named as Levy Home Entertainment's Hot New Author Pick for their 2005 Get Caught Reading sea cruise.
Australian novelist Carrie Tiffany's first novel, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, is up for the Orange Prize this year. The Orange prize is an international award given to the best full-length novel, written in English, by a woman. For more on the prize, see http://www.orangeprize.co.uk.
In January 2007, the Manchester Guardian analyzed their 2006 annual list of 100 top-selling books in the United Kingdom. They found that new authors prevailed over longstanding big fiction authors. As they noted:
“Richard and Judy [top talk show hosts in the U.K.] like making discoveries, and supermarkets want sellable novelty in books, just as they do in other products; the result is a boom time for new or newish authors. Most of those in the top 20 have only emerged as hit-makers within the past three or four years, and you have to look as far down as No 17 - Patricia Cornwell - to find a 90s survivor; several of the novelists occupying the top spots, including Hislop, Kostova and Bourne, are first-timers.”
Elizabeth Kostova, author of the compelling debut novel The Historian, won the 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year Award for fiction, winning out over many established authors. Her novel is about a teenage girl's discovery of a medieval book that spurs her on a quest to find the murderous ruler Vlad the Impaler, better known today as the fiendish Dracula.
Law professor and first-time novelist Jed Rubenfeld got the full court marketing press from Holt for his first novel The Interpretation of Murder. According to the New York Times, Holt prepared a $500,000 marketing campaign that included sending 3,000 galleys to booksellers and media in April, 2006; distribution of 5,000 more galleys at BookExpo America in May; and lunches with booksellers in New York, Boston, and San Francisco (Still don't know where the other $450,000 was spent). One bookseller, Elaine Petrocelli of Book Passage became so enthusiastic that she ordered 275 copies of the book. In addition, Sessalee Hensley, the main fiction buyer for Barnes & Noble, said that the campaign has gotten her interest. “If a publisher is fully committed to a title, that's what we need to see. When it comes to looking at if the book did better or worse, a lot of times it comes down to marketing.”
French-Algerian accountant Brahim Benaïcha's first novel Vivre au Paradis won the French literary prize Aimé Barancy, awarded by the S.P.A.F. The book was adapted to the cinema in 1998 and won the Prix Special du Jury at the Venice Film Festival and the Golden Tanit at the Carthage Festival.
At the request of Algonquin's marketing director, many independent booksellers took the time to read Sara Gruen's first novel, Water for Elephant, and fell in love with it. In addition, many advanced review copies were distributed at the American Booksellers Association's first Winter Institute in February of 2006. Many booksellers requested addition galley copies from Algonquin because they were getting tired of sharing their dog-eared copies. Algonquin ended up printing 3,500 copies of the galley. Publishers Weekly wrote about the novel once in March and twice in April. The novel soon became a bestseller because of the early enthusiasm from independent booksellers. As a sign of their enthusiasm, the novel hit #3 on the June 8th Book Sense Bestseller List and #1 on the July 13th list.
The American Booksellers Association noticed their member's excitement for the book and decided to track its progress. As Avin Mark Domnitz, the ABA CEO, noted, “Our thinking was to create a case study that if independent booksellers get behind a book, a certain kind of book, they can make it happen in a big way, where it might not have happened otherwise.” You can read their case study at: http://www.bookweb.org/graphics/pdfs/ BScasestudy.pdf.
Children's book author Madeleine L'Engle was in her 40s when her children's fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time was finally published. Originally rejected by 26 publishers, it won the Newberry Award. The book is a perennial bestseller.
Stephenie Meyer's first novel Twilight (a young adult novel about vampires) was plucked from the slush pile Little, Brown and so excited the editors that they offered her a three-book $750,000 deal. Her first two novels have sold more than a million copies. Her third novel, Eclipse, created such prepublication excitement after the 2007 BEA that Little, Brown increased the initial print run to one million copies.
Back in 1897, novelist W. Somerset Maugham, now known as the author of Of Human Bondage, was having trouble selling his first novel Liza of Lambeth because his publisher wasn't interested in advertising the book.
So he took matters into his own hands. He took out some classified ads in a few daily newspapers in London. The copy read: “Young millionaire, lover of sports, cultivated, with good taste of music and a patient and empathetic character wishes to marry any young and beautiful girl that resembles the heroine of W.S. Maugham’s new novel.”
By the end of the week, the first edition had sold out. The novel went on to get critical praise and popular sales.
Don't worry if editors and publishers say no ...
They do it to the best of writers ...Here's an edited story from the London Sunday Times, January 1, 2006:
They can’t judge a book without its cover. British publishers and agents have rejected two Booker prize-winning novels submitted as works by aspiring authors. One of the books considered unworthy was by V. S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel prize for literature.
Typed manuscripts of the opening chapters of Naipaul’s In a Free State and Stanley Middleton's Holiday were sent to 20 publishers and agents. None recognized them as Booker prizewinners from the 1970s that were lauded as British novel writing at its best. Of the 21 replies, all but one were rejections.
Only Barbara Levy, a London literary agent, expressed an interest, and that was for Middleton’s novel. She was unimpressed by Naipaul: “In the end though I’m afraid we just weren’t quite enthusiastic enough to be able to offer to take things further.”
Most large publishers no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts from first-time authors, leaving the literary agencies to discover new talent. Many of the agencies find it hard to cope with the volume of submissions. One said last week that she receives up to 50 manuscripts a day, but takes on a maximum of only six new writers a year.
Leading literary figures expressed surprise that Naipaul had not been talent spotted. Doris Lessing, who was once rejected by her own publishers when she submitted a novel under a pseudonym, said: “I’m astounded as Naipaul is an absolutely wonderful writer.” Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, who teaches creative writing, said: “It is surprising that the people who read it (Naipaul’s book) didn’t recognize it. He is certainly up there as one of our greatest living writers.”
Middleton, 86, wasn’t surprised, “People don’t seem to know what a good novel is nowadays.” Naipaul, 73, said the “world had moved on” since he wrote the novel. He added: “To see that something is well written and appetizingly written takes a lot of talent and there is not a great deal of that around.”
In 2006, Charles Frazier toured to promote his second novel Thirteen Moons, set in the Great Smoky Mountains in the early 19th century and steeped in the history of the Cherokees. As part of his tour, he asked that two books by an author he consulted with be on the signing table at the stores he visits. The author is Barbara Duncan, education director of the Museum of the Cherokee Nation in Cherokee, North Carolina. Her books are Living Stories of the Cherokees and Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook, both from the University of North Carolina Press. At his first book signing at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina, Duncan joined him to sign her books as well.
A debut novel Love Sky by Mika was read by 20 million people on their cellphones or on websites where the novels were hosted as well. When the novel was published in book form, it became the #1 selling novel in Japan for all of 2007. In addition, the novel was made into a movie. Not bad for what was essentially a self-published novel.
Japanese novelist Rin wrote her novel If You over a six-month period during her senior year in high school. She would tap out passages on her cellphone while commuting to a part-time job or whenever she had some free time. Then she would upload the passages on to a popular Japanese website, Maho no i-rando, to share the novel with other cellphone and computer users. By the time she had finished the novel, cellphone readers ranked her novel #1, a very good read. A publisher bought the rights and soon published her novel as a 142-page hardcover. The novel sold 400,000 copies in 2007, becoming the #5 bestselling novel in Japan for that year.
The Diary of Young Girl by Anne Frank was rejected by 15 publishers before it was published in 1952 by Doubleday. The book now has more than 30 million copies in print.
The archives of the Knopf publishing company includes reader rejections letters for The Diary along with authors Jorge Louis Borges, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Slyvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Jean-Paul Sartre, Anaïs Nin, Mordecai Richler, Barbara Tuchman, James Baldwin, Vladimir Nabokov, R.R. Palmer, J.H. Plumb, William Appleman Williams, and A.J.P. Taylor.
One publisher turned down Pearl Buck's The Good Earth because Americans are “not interested in anything on China.”
An agent dumped novelist Tony Hillerman and recommended that he get rid of “all that Indian stuff.”
Another publisher rejected George Orwell's fable Animal Farm because it's “impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.”
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