{"id":2641,"date":"2011-04-08T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2011-04-07T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T01:11:01","slug":"where-is-the-big-literary-e-book-self-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2011\/04\/08\/where-is-the-big-literary-e-book-self-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Big Literary E-Book Self Publisher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"A pier in California.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/pier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"362\" \/>Maybe I just haven&#8217;t seen it, but where is the big <em>literary <\/em>e-book success story?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so maybe you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;One doesn&#8217;t write literary fiction because it pays in piles of cash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All right&#8211;I&#8217;ll give you that.<\/p>\n<p>Where, then, is the e-book self publishing equivalent of Jodi Picoult, Kathryn Stockett, Abraham Verghese, or Sara Gruen?<\/p>\n<p>Upmarket fiction doesn&#8217;t seem to have the same potential for success when it comes to digital self publishing that genre fiction has.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think that is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I just haven&#8217;t seen it, but where is the big literary e-book success story? Okay, so maybe you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;One doesn&#8217;t write literary fiction because it pays in piles of cash.&#8221; All right&#8211;I&#8217;ll give you that. Where, then, is the e-book self publishing equivalent of Jodi Picoult, Kathryn Stockett, Abraham Verghese, or Sara Gruen? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}