Bestselling child nutrition author Annabel Karmel is to leave publisher Ebury and self-publish her next title, Baby-Led Weaning Recipe Book.
Karmel's 1991 début, The Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner was inspired by her son Nicholas who was a fussy eater, was rejected by 15 publishing houses and "countless" literary agents before it was represented by a book packager and sold to Simon & Schuster in the US at Frankfurt Book FairWorld's largest trade fair for books; held annually mid-October at Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany; First three days exclusively for trade visitors; general public can attend last two., who then went on to order 25,000 copies. It was later sold to Ebury in the UK.
To date, she has sold 1.93 million books, for £19.6m, through Nielsen BookScan UKUK bibliographic organisation, describing itself as 'the definitive retail monitoring service for books', which shows UK bestseller lists on its website. http://www.nielsenbookscan.co.uk/, with The New Complete Baby & Toddler Planner her top seller (339,646 copies). The author told The Bookseller she was self-publishing as "an experiment" and remains on good terms with Ebury, which she did not rule out returning to at a later date, adding: "I will see how it goes."
