Real Estate Attorney from Sandusky, Ohio Dominates Chinese Best-Seller List

WESTPORT, Conn. - July 27, 2016 - PRLog -- In one of the oddities of international culture, a real estate attorney originally from Sandusky, Ohio, has two books often in the top 10 of Chinese e-book best sellers.  What is more amazing is that this list includes every book ever written in Chinese - fiction or non-fiction.  While this list changes hourly, lately the only other non-Asian author in the top ten is Arthur Conan Doyle.  Shakespeare appears in the top 100 - but far down the list.

The author, Jim Randel, wrote ten books in 2011 - 2012 titled "The Skinny On __________" - each on a different life skill (time management, willpower, and so on).  These bills are illustrated narratives, compilations of many writings on the particular subject.

Randel:  "I spent all my energy writing these books.  Then when they were finished, I had no idea what to do with them.  I self-published, that is the easy part, but marketing and distribution is the name of the game.  I did not put the requisite energy into that and my books got very little traction in the U.S."

But then Randel got a lucky break when he got an e-mail from a literary agent in Hong Kong wanting to know if Randel would license five of his books to a Chinese publisher.

By 2014 five of Randel's books were translated into Chinese and being sold in China.

"I knew something was happening when I started receiving e-mails from Chinese readers.  In the beginning, one every few weeks.  Then, one a week … then, several a week."

Randel's books hit some kind of nerve in China - sales of approximately 100,000 copies today.

By 2015 all titles were e-books and things really started to take off.  While ranks change hourly, a few weeks ago, two of Randel's books were #1 and #2.  Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare, and Arthur Conan Doyle were the only other non-Asians on the list - and each with only one book.

"I realize this is nuts … but everyone is supposed to get 15 minutes of fame, so I suppose this is mine."

AMAZON ranks all e-books written in Chinese and sold on Amazon.

See:  http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-Chinese-e...


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