Samhain Publishing has receieved RWA Publisher Recognition which means that one of its titles sold 5,000 copies in a single year. I’ll speculate that one or more of the following titles sold the requisite number:
- Blackmailed by AnnMarie McKenna. While this book was not my personal favorite, I saw it sit atop the Bestseller list for WEEEEEEKS.
- Taste This by Leigh Ellwood. Gay romance fiction is just not very prevalent in the regular bookstore but I can see a big market for this.
- Pack Challenge by Shelly Laurentson. I think she’s just got a fresh voice that readers responded to.
- Betting Hearts by Dee Tenorio. It was fun, sweet, and sexy.
Am I even close?
Purely out of curiosity, why don’t you think it’s one of the more established e-authors who had been at, say, EC, who then got pubbed with Samhain? Or are there RWA rules preventing that?
Oh, no, I don’t think so. Angie W said on her blog that several books met the criteria. You are right. I bet Lora Leigh’s book was one of them. I can’t remember the name of it right now. I think I reviewed it and then it was sold to Berkley.
You’re thinking of Nauti Buoy.
Okay, I was actually thinking of Loving Lies but you are right about Nauti Boy being the one sold to Berkley.
Just to clarify, the number is 5000 for ebooks or 1500 for trade print. We had double digit books that qualified us for recognition, not just one or five :P
I think you are right about m/m being an ebook staple because it is hard to get elsewhere. Perhaps it was a print book that made it to 1,500? I would love to know whether recognized epubs did it on an ebook or a TPB.
[quote comment="24692"]Just to clarify, the number is 5000 for ebooks or 1500 for trade print. We had double digit books that qualified us for recognition, not just one or five :P[/quote]
I was thinking they’d just been selling a lot of books all around lately. ;)
Congrats to Samhain! They’ve done so well in such a relatively short period.
3 epubs get in, and now the criterion are being re-evaluated. hmmm.