{"id":219,"date":"2015-10-06T20:40:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:16:01","slug":"famous-writers-who-self-published-their-own-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/famous-writers-who-self-published-their-own-books\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMOUS WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED THEIR OWN BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-242 size-medium\" style=\"float: right; width: 125;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/swan1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"swans way proust\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/swan1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/swan1.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t get an agent to represent your novel? \u00a0Or maybe you have an agent but your book has been rejected by a lot of publishers. \u00a0 What now? \u00a0Put your manuscript in a drawer and forget about it? \u00a0Cry profusely? \u00a0Curse the gate keepers? \u00a0(Darn you all!) \u00a0How about publishing it yourself? \u00a0This is an act of desperation, you say, no self- respecting writer would actually publish their own book. \u00a0I beg to differ. \u00a0Maybe all that\u2019s missing are a few role models. \u00a0Here are some writers who were rejected and decided to self- publish their books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 50%; float: left;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Edgar Allan Poe<\/li>\n<li>Carl Sandburg<\/li>\n<li>James Joyce<\/li>\n<li>Erza Pound<\/li>\n<li>Upton Sinclair<\/li>\n<li>Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n<li>William E. B. DuBois<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Wolf<\/li>\n<li>Rudyard Kipling<\/li>\n<li>Charles Dickens<\/li>\n<li>Walt Whitman<\/li>\n<li>L. Frank Baum<\/li>\n<li>Marcel Proust<\/li>\n<li>Steven King (pre-<em>Carrie<\/em>!)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Nelson Boles<br \/>\n(<em>What Color Is Your Parachute<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 125; float: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TheJungleSinclair-192x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TheJungleSinclair-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Jungle upton Sinclair\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; width: 100%;\">\n<p>The above is only a partial list of famous self-published writers. These writers didn\u2019t have the option of putting out their own ebooks, but you do. Check out Dan Poynter\u2019s <em>Self-Publishing Manual<\/em> for help. Also take a look at Lindsay Buroker\u2019s great blog on indie ebook publishing. Joanna Penn (The Creative Penn) has an excellent blog on ebook publishing too. Don\u2019t let rejection stand in the way of your writing dreams!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-239 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/walden-11-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"leaves of grass and walden\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/walden-11-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/walden-11.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<!-- end .footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end .container --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can\u2019t get an agent to represent your novel? \u00a0Or maybe you have an agent but your book has been rejected by a lot of publishers. \u00a0 What now? \u00a0Put your manuscript in a drawer and forget about it? \u00a0Cry profusely? &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/famous-writers-who-self-published-their-own-books\/\">Continue&nbsp;reading&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[51,52,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}