Another 'Fifty Shades'-like Self-Published Ebook Scores Major Publishing Deal

1:12 PM PDT 8/21/2012 by Andy Lewis

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"Anything He Wants," Sara Fawkes' serialized erotic thriller about love and corporate espionage, which debuted in April, has been acquired by St. Martin's Press.

St. Martin's Press announced it acquired Sara Fawkes' self-published serialized erotic story Anything He Wants for a print and ebook deal.

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In the wake of Fifty Shades of Grey's phenomenal journey from self-published fan fiction to a twenty-million copy selling hit, major publishers --and film studios--have eagerly snapped up self-published erotica and romance hits.

Anything He Wants is an erotic thriller about a female temp who gets caught up in a torrid romance with the male CEO and drawn into a game of corporate espionage.

On her website, Fawkes describes herself as a "California girl" who has "seen the world thanks to the military," a lover of hard liquor and motorcycles and a writer of stories about "alpha men and the women they adore."

She self-published the first four installments of the story as ebooks, ranging in length from 28-52 pages. The initial installment was priced at .99¢ and the next three for $2.99.

The books have appeared on USA Today's top-150 bestselling books list (Aug. 5 and July 28, topping out at no. 85 and on Amazon's list of top-100 selling ebooks. The first installment is currently no. 3 on Amazon's fiction erotica list and no. 37 on its romanace list.

St. Martin's will publish the fifth and final installment as an ebook in September with a print book to follow.

Terms of the deal were not announced.