Can carry your unpublished novels online for innocent still lead to a nice al-Qur’an heap , now that the web is saturated with free fiction ? It worked for author Marta Acosta , whose vernal - adult lamia novel will come out from Tor Books .
Acosta says she got tired of hold back for her YA novel , The Shadow Girl Of Birch Grove , to get a volume deal . So sheposted it online at Scribd , where it became the#1selling YA novel and got some rave reviews from lamia sites . ( LoveVampires.comcalled it “ Bloody brilliant . ” ) Acosta , who also writes the successful grownup vampire series Happy Hour At Casa Dracula , tell us :
My record book had been with Tor and a few other publisher since last October . We had n’t hear anything back and I was beginning to despair . That ’s when I put the book online as a innocent read . I do n’t know that having it on Scribd inspired the whirl , but I was able to get critical review that were presented to the editor program who expressed interest . Also usher her the number of read made a remainder .
And now , it ’ll be come out in hardcover as well as paperbacked . Of course , it plausibly helps that her novel include embarkment schooling as well as vampire intrigue . Here ’s the verbal description , via Acosta ’s blog :
Jane Williams has suffered personal tragedy and read to survive by hiding in the shadows of life . She opine she will never hightail it the misery of her foster abode when she ’s offered a full - scholarship at an elite honorary society . The school day even offers Jane a space of her own to live , the old groundsman ’s cottage in a slow orchard of birch rod tree diagram .
The very pale and very elegant headmistress , Mrs. Monroe , is especially tolerant and suggests that Jane earn spending money by tutoring her son , gorgeous Lucky . A democratic group of girls take Jane into their circle , and the ambitious classes are all she could have hoped for .
It seems too unspoiled to be dependable . It is .
We postulate Acosta how she went about generate this story . She says :
I drew upon my own experience as a scholarship girl at a Catholic girls school . It was a pretty place and there were some large girl there , girls who were smart and rum about the world and full of zip . I wanted character were had more to them than simple consumerism .
I ’ve lived in a few big houses , one even with cloak-and-dagger passageway , and I tried to convey that feel of eeriness when you think you ’re just missing something .
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