NEW YORK (AP) — A new shade of grey? A sexy, self-published romance novel that has sold hundreds of thousands of copies has been acquired by an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Atria Books announced Tuesday that it had signed up Jamie McGuire's "Beautiful Disaster," to be released immediately as an e-book. A paperback will follow in August.
The story of a young woman trying to choose between two men is currently No. 106 on Amazon.com's best-seller list and has received more than 1,000 customer reviews.
McGuire's literary agency, Valarie Hoskins Associates, also represents "Fifty Shades of Grey" author E.L. James.
"Walking Disaster," a sequel to "Beautiful Disaster," is scheduled to be published by Atria next year.
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Basically posted so that certain people would rage with me. You know who you are. Actually, she probably hates me from when I said this had to be coming a few weeks ago. Ugh. Nice to know McGuire's method of getting people to hear about her works. And that we need more abusive relationships depicted as love stories out there. Atria, I'm so disappointed. I wonder how they're going to classify the book . . .
Also, can they PLEASE stop mentioning that fanfic in every book article now? It's beyond old.