British Author Inks Six Figure Deal After Releasing £0.95 Kindle Book

After being rejected by literary agents for her novel Catch Your Death, British writer Louise Voss decided to self publish her book in the Kindle UK Store. Voss priced the eBook at £0.95, which helped it shoot up the Kindle charts, which in turn caught the eye of a major publishing house.

The London Evening Standard has the story: “It attracted the attention of publishers HarperFiction, which offered her a six-figure, four-book deal. As a result, her ebook Catch Your Death will also be printed and stocked in bookshops in the traditional way.”

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