Bestselling author hoping self-publishing pays off on tale of love in 1916
AUTHOR and retired solicitor Mary Ryan is making her comeback to publishing with her 11th novel, Under the Wild Sky. Despite her first novel, Whispers in the Wind (published by Attic Press), having been a No 1 bestseller back in 1990, and having sold a healthy 300,000 copies of her novels around the world, Ryan didn’t succeed in getting a publishing deal for her latest book with her London publisher.
“I think they didn’t really like the historical element to it and they thought it was too Irish,” says Ryan. “It’s also romantic and has some social commentary in it. Perhaps that’s a difficult fit for a publisher. But my German publishers took it immediately and published it in German.”
