Barbara Freethy's Blog - Posts Tagged "romantic-suspense"
New Ebook Sales Milestone!
I have some very exciting news. This month I passed the one million unit sales mark at Barnes and Noble for my self-published titles! I’m the first Indie author to sell over a million at the retailer through the PubIt! platform. A few months ago I passed the same milestone at Amazon books, making me the first Indie author to have sold a million on both platforms! Overall, my sales across six retailers is up to 2.7 million ebooks since January 2011.
The self publishing journey I have been on has been exciting and exhausting! I started out self pubbing some backlist titles that had gone out of print and then moved on to ebook originals. I love being able to get my books to so many fans and also new readers, and I want to thank all the readers who have discovered my books for supporting my work in such a big way. It makes going to the keyboard to write every day that much easier.
As some of you may know, I started my writing career in traditional publishing. I’ve published 30 books through four houses, Avon, Silhouette, NAL and most recently Pocket Books. And I’ve now published 3 ebook originals as part of the WISH Series. Book three in the WISH Series, WHEN WISHES COLLIDE, was released this month.
I’m currently working on a new connected series about a firefighting family in San Francisco called THE CALLAWAYS. Generations of Callaways have been raised with the philosophy of “serve and protect” and those who haven’t followed in the family business of fire fighting have still gone into careers where they serve the community like search and rescue, medicine and investigative work. The Callaways are a blended family. The father had four sons. The mom had two daughters, and they married, adding in a set of fraternal twins, making a total of 8 siblings, ranging from 23-35.
Of course, I can’t write a series without lots of dysfunction, family secrets, and moral choices, so I think you’ll enjoy watching the Callaways get tested by life and also by love. Many of the continuing characters will be seen in every book, so I hope you’ll get as interested and addicted to reading about the Callaways as I am about writing their stories. The first book will be out December 25, 2012. More specific details and title information to come!
Happy Reading!
Barbara
The self publishing journey I have been on has been exciting and exhausting! I started out self pubbing some backlist titles that had gone out of print and then moved on to ebook originals. I love being able to get my books to so many fans and also new readers, and I want to thank all the readers who have discovered my books for supporting my work in such a big way. It makes going to the keyboard to write every day that much easier.
As some of you may know, I started my writing career in traditional publishing. I’ve published 30 books through four houses, Avon, Silhouette, NAL and most recently Pocket Books. And I’ve now published 3 ebook originals as part of the WISH Series. Book three in the WISH Series, WHEN WISHES COLLIDE, was released this month.
I’m currently working on a new connected series about a firefighting family in San Francisco called THE CALLAWAYS. Generations of Callaways have been raised with the philosophy of “serve and protect” and those who haven’t followed in the family business of fire fighting have still gone into careers where they serve the community like search and rescue, medicine and investigative work. The Callaways are a blended family. The father had four sons. The mom had two daughters, and they married, adding in a set of fraternal twins, making a total of 8 siblings, ranging from 23-35.
Of course, I can’t write a series without lots of dysfunction, family secrets, and moral choices, so I think you’ll enjoy watching the Callaways get tested by life and also by love. Many of the continuing characters will be seen in every book, so I hope you’ll get as interested and addicted to reading about the Callaways as I am about writing their stories. The first book will be out December 25, 2012. More specific details and title information to come!
Happy Reading!
Barbara
