Indie author finds success with Kindle; gets two-book deal with Simon & Schuster
Author Boyd Morrison – writer of three novels self-published through the Kindle Store – has just struck a book deal with Simon and Schuster. Boyd’s novel The Ark will be published in hardcover in summer 2010, and will be followed by a 2nd book featuring adventurous engineer Tyler Locke. Foreign rights to the books have also been acquired for over 75 countries.
As far as we know – and we track Kindle e-books pretty closely – this is the first time that an indie author has ‘made it’ with a bona fide New York book deal, after self-publishing his work on the Kindle Store.
We’re proud to call Boyd one of our KindleBoards members and resident authors. Our Reading With the Author series recently featured a book club for The Ark and drew over 2,000 pageviews.
Boyd is characteristically gracious about the support he’s had in our forums: “Thanks so much for everyone who has been so enthusiastic about my novels. I can honestly say that the readers on Kindleboards were a big factor in spreading the word and getting me noticed by my publisher.”
His novels are no longer available through the Kindle Store, but we hope that they will be again when the Simon & Schuster versions are released. Big congratulations, Boyd!