Leigh Russell's Blog
Sad but true - blog post by Matt Hilton on the reality of life as a midlist author in the 21st century. Here's the link - Pulp Pusher blog post
Labels: bookshops, matt hilton, midlist authors
posted by Leigh Russell @ 05:08
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Well reviewed in journals like The Times and US Publishers Weekly, LEIGH RUSSELL is "a brilliant talent" (Jeffery Deaver) "with a deeply human voice" (Peter James) CUT SHORT (2009) was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller on kindle. ROAD CLOSED(2010) was listed as a Top Read on Eurocrime and followed the international success of Cut Short on kindle. DEAD END(2011) remained at number 1 on amazon kindle's bestseller chart for female sleuths for two months,and was in the Top 50 Bestsellers list on amazon. DEATH BED (2012) reached the Top 50 Bestsellers chart for WH Smith's and is available in hardback as well as paperback. Leigh enjoys meeting readers and there is a schedule of her appearances on http://leighrussell.co.uk along with links to facebook, twitter, and Leigh's author channel on youtube. Leigh gives interviews and appears at literary festivals, in bookshops and libraries, giving talks, running workshops and, of course, signing her books. She can be heard talking about crime fiction, how to get published, and many other topics, as well as reading from her books, on www.youtube.com/leighrussellauthor
9 Comments:
Going to read it right away.
It won't get any easier when Amazon allows reselling of digital copies. I can only hope they include a royalty to the author in the resell, and only allow it to be done once.
Food for thought, hope some other method of book promotion becomes available if the chains are just going to promote celeb reads.
Not cheerful, Guillaume, but I've blogged about this a while ago. Things aren't getting any better.
All authors can do is try to be optimistic, Fizzy, and hope fans keep telling their friends to buy our books (hint!)
Yes, Bernard, it's not looking good, is it? Authors seem to be under attack from every angle - libraries, bookshops, amazon - all the outlets you would think would be supporting mid list authors who are too old (and sane) to run around with footballers!
Yes, Bernard, it's not looking good, is it? Authors seem to be under attack from every angle - libraries, bookshops, amazon - all the outlets you would think would be supporting mid list authors who are too old (and sane) to run around with footballers!
Ha spotted the hint today!looking forwood to the next printed book!
Thanks, fizzycat! x
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