It relies on a close first-person narrator (Anastasia Steele) and embarrassingly contrived descriptions, such as "My inner goddess is doing the dance of the seven veils."
The run-of-the-mill romance novel recounts the sexual relationship between ingénue Anastasia Steele and billionaire Christian Grey. Of course, the hoopla surrounding Fifty Shades-and James-is unwarranted, at least from a literary perspective. Soon, Fifty Shades of Grey landed on the New York Times e-book and print bestseller lists.
James then signed a seven-figure book deal with Vintage. Without traditional distribution by a big-name publisher in the United States, the series caught on via word-of-mouth and Facebook. James, a former TV executive based in London, published the first installment of the Fifty Shades trilogy as an e-book. James was offered $5 million dollars last month for the movie rights to her self-published novel, Fifty Shades of Grey.
Can we expect more hits from nowhere?įirst-time author E.L. The erotic novel became a New York Times bestseller without a traditional publisher, thanks to word of mouth.
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