Teenagers who founded their own start-ups could find themselves featured in titles from Backlit, a new young adult e-book publisher based in Santa Monica. While bestselling YA series like Gossip Girl have centered around the Manhattan elite, Backlit is a product of Silicon Valley and Hollywood—with a first-look agreement from Happy Madison producer Jack Giarraputo—even if its books are set in lands as far away as ancient Greece. ...
Each of the books in those series—or, as Backlit calls them, “episodes”—are around 30,000 words and sell for $2.99; new “episodes” will be released about once a month. The first two episodes of each series are available now in the Kindle and Nook stores. ...
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