After Zetta Elliott couldn’t interest publishers in her novel about a black-Latina teen who travels back in time to Civil War-era Brooklyn, she joined a growing number of writers and paid to publish it herself in 2008.
A Wish After Midnight
But when an editor from Amazon, the online retailer, called last year offering to publish it, Elliott says, “I thought it was a hoax.”
It wasn’t. This month, her novel, along with Daniel Annechino’s They Never Die Quietly and Maria Murname’s Perfect on Paper, will be released as AmazonEncore paperbacks, e-books and audios.
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