![]() ![]() Swoon Reads, a young-adult imprint that is part of Macmillan Publishing, is upending the traditional discovery process by using crowdsourcing to select all its titles. Her publisher is so bullish about the book that it is planning a hefty first print run of 100,000 copies in the United States and simultaneous releases by its sister imprints in Britain and Australia. Her novel is the first book to be published by Swoon Reads, a new young-adult imprint that lets fans vote on manuscripts to choose which ones are published.Ībout 9,000 readers have already sampled her story online, and it drew the highest possible rating of five hearts. ![]() Hall, 33, has more cause for confidence than most other first-time authors. ![]() “I’m still in the ‘I hope they like it’ phase,” she said an hour before the meeting.īut Ms. The book being discussed, a young-adult romance titled “A Little Something Different,” was her own debut novel. ![]() Hall, a librarian in Morristown, N.J., was preparing one recent night to lead her weekly book club meeting with a group of 14 teenagers. ![]()
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