Exciting news today: My second novel, The Summer Son, has been acquired by AmazonEncore, the new publishing arm of the online giant.
The book will emerge sometime in the early part of 2011. It is available for pre-sale in print and Kindle versions.
To say that I am thrilled to be joining up with AmazonEncore is, perhaps, to understate the matter. Beyond good writing and a compelling story and a bit of luck, a book needs powerful marketing to make inroads with readers, and AmazonEncore boasts an unparalleled worldwide reach and a proven ability to match books and the people who love them. AmazonEncore has been making a splash of late by giving second chances to independently released books, publishing a handful of original manuscripts (as it will with mine) and, more recently, striking a deal with author J.A. Konrath that left industry tongues wagging (also choice reading is Konrath’s rebuttal to that Publishers Weekly article). Publishing is an area with few sure-fire bets, but here’s one of them: Whatever the future holds, Amazon is going to be a major player. I’m gratified to be able to jump aboard.
(Just as an aside: At some future date, I may have to write a memoir of publishing with the working title Dude, WTF? Consider: Wrote my first novel in 24 days. Self-published it. Got picked up by a regional publisher and re-released in less than a year. Won some nice notices. Some really nice notices. Prepared to launch my second novel with my own literary press. Hooked up instead with an ascendant publisher with unmatched insight into consumer behavior. All in a little more than 18 months. I’m blessed, and very, very, very fortunate.)
As noted above, this move does scuttle my earlier plan to make The Summer Son the initial release of my small literary press, Missouri Breaks. That publishing venture is still a go, however, and I anticipate being able to soon make an exciting annoucement about a couple of forthcoming books.
In the meantime, with my schedule suddenly cleared of all the production duties I had anticipated, I now find myself in the happy position of being able to spend the next few months of waiting out The Summer Son by getting down the road with Novel No. 3.
Thanks for riding along.
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June 22, 2010 at 8:25 am
Craig Lancaster on family, snooping, and football in an interview about his new novel, “The Summer Son” « From a little office in a little house
[…] Craig Lancaster on family, snooping, and football in an interview about his new novel, “The Summer Son” 600 Hours of Edward author Craig Lancaster announced today the upcoming release of his second novel, The Summer Son, which has been acquired by AmazonEncore (the new publishing arm of Amazon.com) and is scheduled for release in early 2011. (Read his announcement here.) […]
June 22, 2010 at 8:46 am
Kristin
Wow! Great news. I’m excited to read your book 🙂
June 22, 2010 at 10:07 am
Jim Thomsen
I couldn’t be more proud of you, my friend. And I don’t know which of us has had a harder time sitting on this news. I’ve been wanting to shout it from the mountaintops for two weeks now!
Your career is going to enter some rarified air, pal. That memoir may be a 17-volume, Marcel Proust-like collection by the time the final chapter is written.
June 22, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Ty
Here he comes! (mnidwd)
July 28, 2010 at 9:05 am
A must read « Craig Lancaster | A Mind Adrift in the West
[…] The novel he’s writing about here is my forthcoming The Summer Son. He ended up writing a lovely blurb, for which I am unyieldingly grateful. But I was most interested in his thoughts about the study guide I included at the end of the book. (This ends up being a moot point, as Wheeler read the version of the book that was going to be released by my Missouri Breaks Press; AmazonEncore ended up moving in and acquiring the title.) […]
September 28, 2010 at 9:49 am
I guess it’s official « Craig Lancaster | A Mind Adrift in the West
[…] announced the news of AmazonEncore’s acquiring The Summer Son a while ago. Today, the publishing […]