Hi all!! I sure hope you are sitting down because you won't believe who is stopping by today!! Not only is she an International Best Selling Author and Publishing Innovator, she can now add to the list, the Creator of the
First E-Fan Fiction Book to Have Been Written by Published Author. So without further ado, Ms. M.J. Rose!!
M.J. ROSE HAS DONE IT AGAIN!
The first e-fan fiction book written by a published author!
International bestselling author M.J. Rose, a publishing pioneer who wrote the first e-book to be published by a mainstream New York publishing house, is once again thrilling the book world with another innovation – the first ever e-fan fiction written by an accomplished author called, IN SESSION where characters from major thriller writers’ bestselling novels are psychoanalyzed by one of Rose’s most unforgettable characters, the sex therapist Dr. Morgan Snow.
Fan fiction stories, usually written by fans of an original work, rather than by the author, are rarely commissioned or authorized by the author and almost never published professionally. This is the first time a well-known published author like Rose has sought and received permission to include popular characters of bestselling writers from the thriller genre, in three short stories tied together through one of her most popular heroines.
“With this fan fiction, you don’t just write it, you get it published,” said Rose. This is also a philanthropic effort on Rose’s part as proceeds from the audio book and a share of the proceeds from the e-book will be donated to David Baldacci’s Wish You Well Foundation, supporting
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
M.J. Rose, is the international bestselling author
of 11 novels;Lip Service, In Fidelity, Flesh Tones, Sheet Music, Lying in Bed, The
Halo Effect, The
Delilah Complex, The Venus Fix,The Reincarnationist, The
Memorist and The Hypnotist.
Rose is also the co-author with Angela Adair Hoy
of How to Publish and Promote Online,
and with Doug Clegg of Buzz Your Book.
She is a founding member and board member of
International Thriller Writers and the founder of the first marketing company
for authors: AuthorBuzz.com. She runs two popular blogs; Buzz, Balls & Hype and Backstory.
Getting published has been an adventure for Rose who self-published Lip
Service late in 1998 after several traditional publishers turned it down.
Editors had loved it, but didn't know how to position it or market it since it
didn't fit into any one genre.
Frustrated, but curious and convinced that there was a readership for her
work, she set up a web site where readers could download her book for $9.95 and
began to seriously market the novel on the Internet.
After selling over 2500 copies (in both electronic and trade paper
format) Lip Service became the first e-book and
the first self-published novel chosen by the LiteraryGuild/Doubleday Book Club
as well as being the first e-book to go on to be published by a mainstream New
York publishing house.
Rose has been profiled in
Time magazine, Forbes, The New York Times,
Business 2.0, Working Woman, Newsweek and New York Magazine.
Rose has appeared on The Today Show, Fox News, The Jim Lehrer NewsHour, and
features on her have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers in the U.S.
and abroad, including
USAToday, Stern, L'Official, Poets and Writers and
Publishers Weekly.
Rose graduated from Syracuse University and spent the '80s in advertising.
She was the Creative Director of Rosenfeld Sirowitz and Lawson and she has a
commercial in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
She lives in Connecticut with Doug Scofield, a composer, and their very
spoiled dog, Winka.
GUEST POST
What’s the worst that can happen?
One day I started to fantasize what would happen if my character from The Butterfield Institute series (http://www.mjrose.com/content/books_butterfield.asp) , Dr. Morgan Snow got some of my favorite tough guys in suspense on her couch. What twisted pasts, what traumas, what mysteries would she discover?
How much fun would it be to try it, was my first thought.
What a crazy creative challenge, was my second.
But could I ever get up the nerve to ask Lee Child Steve Barry or Barry Eisler to let me borrow their bestselling characters? No less put them in compromising positions.
And even if I could pull it off and write in their voices, what possible reason would any of them have for saying yes?
The most important thing my mother taught me was not to be afraid of trying something out of my comfort zone. “What’s the worst thing that can happen?” she’d ask when something made me nervous. Together we’d go through all the possible results. Talking them out one by one- they never seemed as bad as they did in my imagination.
So I took a really deep breath and asked Lee Child first. He said he couldn’t imagine Reacher ever going to see a sex therapist but if I could pull it off, it sounded like fun. Steve Berry was next. He said pretty much the same thing. Eisler was no different.
The stakes got higher when Phil Gigante - who along with Natalie Ross –said they’d narrate the stories if the project came to fruition came up with a marvelous idea. What about asking Dick Hill - Reacher’s Voice, Scott Brick – Malone’s voice, and Eisler - who does Rain – to do their own dialog in the audio version?
I spent a good part of the summer writing the stories. Alternating enjoying the hell out the challenge, agonizing and cursing my hubris. Why had I thought I could do this? These are well established heroes. They have their unique ways of talking, thinking and acting. Not to mention the possible really awful rejection.
When it was time to send them off, have the authors read my efforts, do some editing if they wanted and hopefully give their blessing, I totally froze.
I’d written 11 novels. Had my share of nice accolades and reviews. Felt fairly good about my career. But suddenly I was as nervous as a the proverbial (and virginal) bride on her wedding night.
Why was I actively courting rejection and embarrassment? Why was I putting three writers who I respect and admire in the uncomfortable position of having to tell me I’d failed?
For an entire week I thought about scrapping the whole idea and not showing any of them the stories.
Finally I got to the core question. Really, what was the worst thing that could happen?
Amazingly, I never found out. And boy, did I have fun!
You can visit M.J. Rose here.
ABOUT THE BOOK
INTERNATIONAL
BESTSELLING AUTHOR M.J. ROSE
GETS
JACK REACHER, COTTON MALONE, JOHN RAIN
ON
THE SEX THERAPIST’S COUCH
How do
you get a stoic drifter, a former covert agent and an international assassin to
see a sex therapist? That was the challenge faced by international bestselling
author M.J. Rose when she proposed setting up appointments for Jack Reacher,
Cotton Malone and John Rain with Dr. Morgan Snow of the Butterfield Institute
in her new e-book IN SESSION (October
17, 2011, Kindle e-book, $1.99).
The
protagonists’ of New York Times
bestselling authors – Lee Child, Steve Berry and Barry Eisler – swore that
their men of mystery would never agree to therapy – unless Rose found a way to
get them there. By slipping Dr. Snow out of her office, Rose delivered some of
America’s favorite male characters to a place they’ve never been before – in
therapy.
IN SESSION contains three racy and
revealing short stories by M.J. Rose:
·
KNOWING YOU’RE ALIVE with Lee
Child’s Jack Reacher results
in revelations for the injured Dr. Snow and her unexpected savior/patient. What
secrets from the past are contained in an unexpected gift?
·
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES with
Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone features a woman who seeks help for her lover,
and sends Dr. Snow overseas on a most unusual house call. Can a rare book in a plain
brown wrapper be the medicine her patient needs?
·
DECISIONS, DECISIONS with Barry
Eisler’s John Rain forces
Dr. Snow out of her own comfort zone, and into the world of a former patient’s
worst nightmare. Does protecting what she loves most require a dance with
darkness?
The
audio version, narrated by award winners Phil Gigante and Natalie Ross will
feature Dick Hill, Scott Brick and Barry Eisler reprising their roles Reacher,
Malone and Rain.
In honor of these amazingly generous authors who shared their heroes with me a share of the e-book proceeds and all the audio proceeds of In Session will be donated to David Baldacci's Wish You Well Foundation, supporting family literacy. (wishyouwellfoundation.org/)
The e-book and audio book will go on sale Oct 17 but the e-book is available to pre-order at Amazon now. http://www.amazon.com/Session-Morgan-Reacher-Eislers-ebook/dp/B005OLJ3VC
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