5/20/2023 0 Comments The shack book author![]() ![]() The publisher has also recently signed a distribution agreement with Hachette Books, which has now begun to handle sales, marketing, distribution, licensing, and manufacturing. Windblown Media is negotiating with film studios about the possibility of a movie version of The Shack. The book has climbed as high as #8 on the USA Today bestseller list and at least as high among all books at where it is also approaching 500 reader reviews. There are now over a million copies of the book in print and its popularity continues to rise. Since its first publication The Shack has gone through printing after printing. The three men, with only a $300 marketing budget at their disposal, began a word-of-mouth campaign to let people know about the book. ![]() After the manuscript was rejected by other publishers, Jacobsen and his co-publisher Brad Cummings decided to publish it themselves under the banner of Windblown Media. Shortly after he completed the book, Young showed the manuscript to Wayne Jacobsen, a former pastor who had begun a small publishing company. Young wrote the tale for the benefit of his children and after its completion in 2005, it was copied and bound at Kinko’s in time for him to give it to his children for Christmas. The first and only book written by a salesman from Oregon, it was never supposed to be published. ![]() The Shack is the unlikeliest of success stories. ![]()
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