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A collection of poker stories. Author is believed to be another pseudonym of S. W. Erdnase. [6] The Autobiography of a Flea, erotic novel published in 1901. The Expert at the Card Table by S. W. Erdnase, a book on sleight-of-hand with cards for card advantage play and magic, self-published in 1902 in Chicago.
Locke was the first self-published author in history to sell one million eBooks, making him one of only eight authors to sell this number of eBooks.(The other seven authors are Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child, Suzanne Collins, and Michael Connelly.) [2] He releases his novels as eBooks via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.
Hybrid publishing is the source of debate in the publishing industry, with some viewing hybrid publishers as vanity presses in disguise. [7] [dead link ] However, a true hybrid publisher is selective in what they publish and will share the costs (and therefore the risks) with the author, whereas with a vanity press, the author pays the full cost of production and therefore carries all the risk.
The book reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list on January 20, [2] [21] and remained there for three weeks. [22] It was the first self-published novel to ever top the list. [23] A companion novel, Losing Hope, was published that July. [24] Finding Cinderella is a free novella that Hoover published in 2014.
This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected short stories.)
The Shack (Young novel) The Shadow of What Was Lost; Shadowmancer; Rich Shapero; Silo (series) A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, in the Year of Our Lord, 19--Songs of Innocence and of Experience; The Soul of Man Under Socialism; Spartacus (Fast novel) Star Trek Concordance; Still Alice (novel) Stolen Valor; Storm of Steel; Sugar Busters!
Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author. The following authors were listed twice: Roberto Bolaño, Edward P. Jones, Denis Johnson, Alice Munro, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Philip Roth. [2]
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...