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As an activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian and prolific writer, W. E.B. Du Bois was one of the most influential African American thought leaders of the 20th century. Growing up in Massachusetts as part of the Black elite, it wasn’t until attending Fisk University in Tennessee that issues of racial prejudice came to his attention. He studied Black America and wrote some of the earliest scientific studies on Black communities, calling for an end to racism. His thesis, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 remains an authoritative work on the subject.
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We all have personal milestones. One of mine will always be March 18, 2013 - the day (actually evening) when I uploaded my novel, Till Human Voices Wake Us, to Kindle Direct Publishing. I was taking the step to send it out into the world. I had finally taken control of my writing career.
Yes, I do have a writing career - it's spanned decades. Eight published books, more than a few having something to do with my very famous family, the Reagans. Hey, we're an interesting family. What writer could resist? But I've always had other stories to tell - stories that had nothing to do with me or my family. Every writer has stories that have nothing to do with them. They're the ones that bloom from a single moment, from a dream that doesn't vanish at dawn. From something you read or see. They're the stories that find you, that ask you to simply grab on, aim for the stars, and explore the filmy side of the moon.
Till Human Voices Wake Us was one of those stories. About twelve years ago I heard strangers talking about two sisters-in-law who fell in love and divorced their husbands. I began this novel then, foolishly believing a publisher would let me break out of the box they had put me in: Reagan daughter writing about her family, either fictionally or truthfully. Well, I was a fool. I got rave reviews from publishers for the book, but none bought it. We don't know what to do with it, they said to my then-agent, who said to me, "If you were unknown they'd snap it up in a second." Great. What do I do with that?
I wrote two other novels, a YAF ghost story called The Blue Hour and another novel about a friendship between two young girls - one black, one white. No one bought those either. I finally realized no publisher was going to buy my fiction. I started reading up on KDP; I became a student of self-published authors and finally thought, Why not? I was so afraid I'd die with these unread novels on my computer; my dying wish being, please publish them posthumously. Ugh!
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I first started writing seriously during freshman year of college. I was very much drawn to the mystery & thrillers genre, and wrote "Desert Places" for my first book. I sold it to St Martin's Press and continued writing to this day. I come up with more characters and stories than I have time to write, so it is an ongoing process to figure out which one is right, the smart book to pursue, etc. I also do a lot of work with JA Konrath. We try to tie our series together - my characters appear in his books, his in mine. It's basically a shared universe, kind of like in comics.
My decision to pursue self-publishing was related to Joe as well. Though I'd been publishing with St. Martin's, a lot of decisions were out of my hands. Meanwhile, Joe was starting to have real success with KDP and encouraged me to put a book up through KDP. I published some short stories, sold a couple hundred copies in the first couple months, and decided to publish other works. Finally, last October, things really started taking off for me with two, three, four thousand copies a month. The sales through KDP were far better than I expected - I even got into the top 50! Of course, there are some challenges with independent publishing, but having control over each part of the publishing process makes up for the extra work. I control the cover art, product description, and the price. I feel this has contributed to my success as an author.
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My story doesn't start 20 years ago with a shelved and forgotten manuscript or a rocky career as a traditionally published author. The saga began at age 39, when I uploaded my first written work onto KDP and pressed "Save and Publish." Unknown to me, eBooks were about to explode and take me with. Less than three years later, with five novels self-published through KDP, and a sixth on the way, I quit a lucrative, 12 year sales career with a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company - to pursue full time writing. I haven't looked back, thanks in no small part to KDP and the benefits associated with the KDP Select program.
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When KDP offered the KDP Select program in late 2011, I didn't hesitate to enroll The Jakarta Pandemic and a recently launched title in my new Black Flagged series. With earnings from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library added in, these books were more profitable than ever. The success of this no-brainer decision continued throughout the year. I'm not sure why it took me another nine months to quit my job.
Not bad for a self-published writer who has never attended a writer's conference or taken a single course on the "craft." My "training" as a writer consists of reading Stephen King's On Writing (several times), joining a supportive writer's group and reading thousands of novels. Hardly a resume you might expect from a full time thriller writer making a comfortable living on 813,000 published words.
As much as I'd like to think my self-publishing story is unique, I know it isn't. Nearly every Indie author has built the bulk of their readership base using KDP, along with innovative programs like KDP Select and Kindle Countdown Deals - still the most robust marketing tools in the industry. I look forward to what KDP brings authors in the near future.
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3. The Girl On the Train (2015)
The fifth book of Paula Hawkins is actually the first one signed with her real name, why? The author herself explains that she felt that “it’s one last roll of the dice” and never felt comfortable writing romance books under a pseudonym. That was also seen in writing; with each volume, the stories were becoming darker. “Nobody bought the last one” Hawkins laughs.
Being in a position to try one last time or do other things, the author writes in six months “The girl on the train”. The fact that in a few months from appearance were sold over 120,000 copies already says enough, especially when compared with prior experience. Furthermore, the writer put it on the map of contemporary literature.
The girl on the train, Rachel, is the expression of insecurity and loneliness – perhaps this is why the contemporary reader, often lonely and insecure character resonated immediately. The young girl is starting to become obsessed with some people’s garden, which the train is passing by. Creating stories in her mind about the people there – having a perfect life, quite different from hers, marked by struggles with alcohol and marriage breakup.
One day she noticed something amazing, then the woman from the garden disappears. Rachel enters in the lives of those people without any more fantasies. This is where the difficulties of their own state – confusion, memory loss – which help prevent truth about the woman in the garden; nobody trusts the word of Rachel.
Paula Hawkins joins an outstanding line of women’s psychological thriller author (lead by Gillian Flynn). What divides them from male approaches is the lower appetite for serial murder and increased domestic topics and real-life threats. Central characters of authors almost always men are attacked by strangers, those created by women are assaulted by people they know.
This was just an example of the two approaches. From this perspective, “The Girl in the Train” (which is a grown woman) is more than an ordinary thriller: it’s the status of women in society, from addressing instinctive forms of violence prevention to rude lines of discrimination, going through aging, maternity, and perception in society.
The qoute says the author, who initially wanted to become a journalist and even practiced this craft for a while, on topics like taxes, pensions and mortgages. From here to the idea of creating a story from the simple gesture looking out a train’s window it’ a long road. And when the narrative is the thriller, the plot becomes even more acute.
2. Go Set a Watchman (2015)
Harper Lee hit … Literary again after the runaway success of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which brought her the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. A giant retailer, Amazon. com, has announced that “Go Set a Watchman” the author’s so awaited second book, is the most recommended volume of the moment, 55 years after Gregory Peck gave life to the title character in the book that propelled her “first” world literature Lee.
The author shocked in February when, having reached a respectable age – 89 years – after a stroke which left her with some physical sequelae after a silence and isolation by the public for decades, announced that it will publish a book that almost no one knew it existed. And behold the character Atticus Finch, the protagonist of a screenplay Oscar, returns, 20 years after the adventures in “How to Kill a Mockingbird” when his daughter, Scout, now adults, return to visit in Maycomb, Alabama.
So, readers worldwide have to face a continuation of the first book, with the same famous lawyer Atticus, his daughter, his son, Jem, and their housekeeper, Calpurnia, all, as you know, the famous centre of the racial process that made the first book famous.
Two narratives
Although the two narratives are intertwined worlds somewhat, particularly due to the presence of the same characters, it is clear that they cannot be identical. Scout, the storyteller, is now a grown woman, and courageous, on the other hand Atticus is a septuagenarian plagued by arthritis.
The liberal hero with an advanced vision for his time, accused in the first book to be “black lover” and ostracized for it, puts in front of the reader a painful evolution: to the horror even his daughter, anti-racist attorney who is participating in public meetings today opposing implementation of integrated education and votes freely in the south!
On marvellous hero seems to have turned full “deep and complicated political nuances of the South” … It is almost inconceivable … we have to read to believe how the author shatters a character in a certain posture classicized and himself as a writer. So expect the appearance of this book in bookstores that gave millions of readers a “hot” appetite.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. The novel had immediate success, winning the Pulitzer Prize and became a classic piece of modern American literature. The action and characters are inspired by the author observation of the family and its neighbors, and an event that took place in her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years.
The novel is known for its warm tone and humor, although a serious problem dealing with topics such as rape and racial inequality. The narrator’s father, Atticus Finch, serves as a model of morality for many readers as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explained the impact of the novel, writing : ” In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is perhaps the most widely read book about race in America and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the persistent image of racial heroism fiction ” .
As a Southern Gothic novel genre and as a Bildungsroman, the main themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Critics have noted how Lee deals with themes related to social class, courage, compassion and gender roles in the historical region called Deep South. The book is part of the curriculum of many schools in the Anglophone countries (where the focus is on deplores tolerance and prejudice) and in the English literature and world literature from other countries.
Despite the topic addressed, To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to campaigns of elimination from public school curricula, often challenged for racial epithets use. Critics have observed that the color of the novel characters are not explored in depth, and some black readers disagree ambivalent about it, although often has a greater impact on white readers.
The second novel by American writer Harper Lee “Go Set a Watchman” exceeded its launch in the US in bookstores all sales records for a book of fiction for adults, announced major bookstore chain Barnes & Noble.
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