24 February 2014
Debut novelist Anne Charnock searched for two years for a publisher, and finally self-published. Then Amazon offered her a contract. She has since been in contention for two awards, pipped to a Kitschie this week by Ann Leckie.
Last summer I received an email from an acquisitions editor at Seattle-based 47North, an imprint of Amazon Publishing. The tone of the email was friendly and unassuming. David Pomerico asked if I would like to find more readers and if I would be willing to take my novel, A Calculated Life, out of the world of self-publishing. He offered me a contract without giving the impression that he expected me to jump at the opportunity.
