Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Modest #s can still mean Hollywood comes calling

There are some wonderful things happening in the world of indie publishing, which I will do a better job of documenting here. But this was something beautiful I read today in the LA Times about indie books getting optioned for movies. Truly, you don't need an agent or big publisher for this to happen to you as Lisa Grace had it happen to her.  But the numbers are the exciting thing.

Here is an awesomesauce paragraph referring to Daughters of Smoke and Bone:

"Universal Pictures ended up paying $1 million for exclusive rights over the next several years to try to adapt it into a movie, a figure that industry professionals say is stunning for a title that has sold a very modest 22,692 copies."

Amazing, huh? That is modest as any self respecting kindleboards lurker will tell you.

Don't believe this could happen to you? Well, here is the kindleboards thread with Lisa Grace telling us about her book being optioned (checks cashed and all). She isn't in the Kindle Million Club like Amanda Hocking (whose Trylle series is being developed for film) but she is just as indie as Amanda used to be.

Anyway, hope for us all.

Kate

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