"I'm kind of addicted to them," says Kara Skinner, a 17-year-old from Maine. Feiwel decided to go with romance novels because they have such avid fans. The author of the most popular manuscript would get the book contract.
The young adult imprint would solicit manuscripts from writers, post them on a website and ask readers to rate them and comment on them. "I thought, why not do what the self-published authors are doing? Which is to connect the readers and the writers directly and see what they come up with," she says.įeiwel who is known for launching such hugely successful kids book series as "The Babysitters Club" and "Goosebumps," came up with the idea of Swoon Reads. That frustrated Feiwel but it also got her thinking - maybe there was another way to find potential bestsellers. It was at the beginning of the self-publishing boom so Feiwel was surprised to see a self-published book on the list.įeiwel read the book, liked it and tried to sign up the author for her publishing house, Macmillan Children's Books. On Friday - Valentine's Day - Swoon Reads announced the winner of that contract: Sandra Hall a teen librarian in Morristown, N.J., who wrote A Little Something Different, about two college students falling in love.Ī couple of years ago publisher Jean Feiwel was checking out the USA Today bestseller list. It has added crowdsourcing to the mix, promising a contract to the writer whose book wins the hearts of a community of online readers. Swoon Reads, a new young adult romance publisher, is taking this dance a step further. And major publishing houses often try to woo these stars into their fold. The rise of self-publishing has already catapulted a few lucky writers to the top of bestseller lists. The most popular manuscript gets a first printing of 100,000 copies.
Swoon Reads - Macmillan's new young adult romance imprint - solicits manuscripts and invites users to read and rate them.
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