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FeedCortlandt Manor Novelist Darcie Chan’s Top Five Self-Published Books
The Cortlandt Manor debut novelist on great self-published titles
The “wildest dream” fantasies of Cortlandt Manor’s Darcie Chan came true when her self-published debut novel, The Mill River Recluse, became a word-of-mouth e-book sensation. With more than 630,000 copies sold, not only did it appear on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, it led to a deal with Ballantine Books to publish her next two books. Looking to sample the growing self-publishing trend? Chan recommends these titles.
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1) Hemingway Point (Nora Carroll; available in e-book format) Chan calls the prose in this novel “exquisite…as if the author painted the words on each page.” The story, which revolves around hidden family secrets and a long-lost, forbidden romance, is equally beautiful, she says. |
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2) Love at Absolute Zero (Christopher Meeks; available in paperback and e-book formats) Meeks dubs his work “humorous literary fiction,” a descriptor Chan agrees is spot-on. In this novel, Gunnar Gunderson, a geeky professor of physics, becomes determined to use a scientific method to find a wife in three days. “His attempt at speed-dating and other events are laugh-out-loud funny,” Chan says. |
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3) Falling Under (Danielle Younge-Ullman; available in e-book format) |
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4) Come Back to Me (Melissa Foster; available in paperback and e-book format) |
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5) Down the Memory Hole (Bonnie Turner; available in paperback and e-book formats) This poignant family story concerns Buzz Collins, a 12-year-old who is forced to share his room with a grandfather suffering from Alzheimer’s. It is written from the youngster’s point of view—“insightful and moving,” Chan says. |
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