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Web watch.(items include the self-publishing efforts of Nan McCarthy on her Web site, the consideration of online marketing in the publishing industry, and the Salon Book Awards)(Brief Article)(Column)

Publishers Weekly

| January 26, 1998 | Reid, Calvin | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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We have some news from Nan McCarthy, the former technical writer and founder of Rainwater Press who was profiled in this space last January on her Web site and the successful self-publishing of her three epistolary e-mail novels (Chat, Connect and Crash). After the Wall Street Journal an People magazine also featured McCarthy, literary agent Jane Dystel got involved and subsequently sold the trilogy to Pocket Books, to be published in July 1998. "Surprised and pleased" by the outcome, McCarthy is currently working on a new novel about a blues pianist and is updating the Web site (www.rainwater.com) for the books' many fans. Although she plans to continue as …

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