Guest Post: Shutta Crum on A New Life for an Out-of-Print Book

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for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

So you’re zipping along—doing your thing—and below the radar one, or more, of your books goes silently out of print.

When a book goes out of print, it always hurts—it’s a death in the family. You’ve spent a significant portion of your life living with it, writing it, and cheering it on. Now, it’s no longer available. For most books, that’s simply the end of the line.

I did not want that to happen to my first novel,...