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But if the book is as good as critics are now saying it is, why didn’t it sell more copies before, especially since the rise of online publishing has supposedly made it easier than ever for first-time authors?
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Given how difficult it is for first-time fiction authors, especially in a crowded genre like mystery, to find both an agent and publisher, it’s not clear “The Cuckoo’s Calling” would have made it off the slush piles.
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An editor there told The Telegraph in London that the book “didn’t stand out.”
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a publishing contract is hardly a guarantee of critical or commercial success.
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Mr. Entrekin cited “Matterhorn,” by first-time novelist Karl Marlantes, which he published in 2010. The author “worked on the book for over 20 years and couldn’t find a publisher,” Mr. Entrekin said. Then, as the book was about to be published in a tiny first edition, Mr. Entrekin got a copy from a buyer at Barnes & Noble, loved it, and bought out the first printing.
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“Robert was doing rather better than we expected him to,” she wrote. Ms. Dewey said it had sold an additional 5,000 copies in the United States, for a total of 13,500, which is “a great achievement for any unknown author.”
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“It would have stayed on the path it was on, which is towards oblivion.”
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“It’s the power of the author brand,” Mr. Entrekin said.
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“Most books come out and do nothing,” Ms. Coady said. “There are still too many books being published. We can only get behind so many books, and then hope they take off on their own. It worries me that so many slip through the cracks.”
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“There’s no formula,” he said. “A publisher can only do so much. A book’s fate is ultimately in the hands of the book gods.”
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