Self-publishing is the publishing
of books and other media by the authors of those works, rather
than by established, third-party publishers, or by vanity
presses. Although it represents a small percentage of the
publishing industry in terms of sales, it has been present in
one form or another since the beginning of publishing and has
seen an increase in activity with the advancement of publishing
technology, including xerography, desktop publishing systems,
print on demand, and the World Wide Web. Cultural phenomena such
as the punk/DIY movement, the proliferation of media channels,
and blogging have contributed to the advancement of
self-publishing.
True self-publishing means
authors undertake the entire cost of publication themselves, and
handle all marketing, distribution, storage, etc. All rights
remain with the author, the completed books are the writer's
property, and the writer gets all the proceeds of sales.
Self-publishing can be more cost-effective than vanity or
subsidy publishing and can result in a much higher-quality
product, because authors can put every aspect of the process out
to bid rather than accepting a preset package of services.
Self-published works that find
large audiences are extremely rare, and are usually the result
of self-promotion. However, many works now considered classic
were originally self-published, including the original writings
of William Blake, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, William Morris,
and James Joyce.
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Famous
Self-Published Books
Remembrance of things Past, by Marcel
Proust
A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
In Search of Excellence, by Tom Peters
The Bridges of Madison County, by Robert James Waller
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
(and his student E. B. White)
The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer
The Wealthy Barber, by David Chilton
When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, Sandra Martz
Life’s Little Instruction Book, H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Robert’s Rules of Order, Henry Martyn Robert
Ulysses, by James Joyce
What Color is Your Parachute, Richard N. Bolles
Creativity and bipolar disorde
Many famous
historical figures gifted with creative talents may have
been affected by bipolar disorder. In many instances,
creativity and psychopathology share some common traits,
such as a tendency for "thinking
outside the box." In addition, many people with
bipolar disorder may feel very powerful emotion,
potentially aiding in creativity.
As a consequence,
creators commonly exhibit characteristics often
associated with mental illness. The frequency and
intensity of these symptoms appear to vary according to
the magnitude and domain of creative achievement. At the
same time, these symptoms are not equivalent to the
full-blown psychopathology of a clinical manic episode
which, by definition, entails significant impairment.
Many of these have been posthumously diagnosed as
suffering from bipolar or unipolar disorder based on
biographies, letters, correspondence, contemporaneous
accounts, or other anecdotal material, most notably in Kay Redfield Jamison's book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the
Artistic Temperament.[5] Touched With Fire presents the argument that
bipolar disorder, and affective disorders more
generally,
may be found in a disproportionate number of people with
creative talent such as actors, artists, comedians, musicians, authors, performers and poets.
Several
recent clinical studies have also suggested that there
is a positive correlation between creativity and bipolar disorder,
although the relationship between the two is unclear.
Temperament may be an intervening variable.
A 2005 study
at the Stanford University School of Medicine showed for
the first time that a sample of children who either have
or are at high risk for bipolar disorder score higher on
a creativity index. Children with bipolar parents who
were not bipolar themselves also scored higher.
Famous Writers With Bipolar
Disorder
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Famous Writers Who
Suffer/Suffered with Depression
Mental disorders and creativity are popularly considered to be related, particularly in
the case of bipolar disorder and poetry, whereas Major depressive disorder appears to be significantly more common
among playwrights, novelists, biographers, and artists.[1] Although the association between bipolar disorder and creativity first
appeared in literature in the 1970s, the idea of a link between
"madness" and "genius" is much older, dating back at least to the time
of Aristotle, and reinforced by the views of the Romanticism era.
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Some Famous People Who Self-Published
Zane
Grey,
Mark Twain,
Walt Whitman,
Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein,
Carl Sandburg, Stephen Crane,
Bernard Shaw,
Thomas Paine,
Virginia Wolff,
Edgar Allen Poe,
Rudyard Kipling,
Benjamin Franklin,
Alexandre Dumas,
William E.B. DuBois, Henry David Thoreau,
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Deepak Chopra,
Ezra Pound,
Anais Nin,
e.e. Cummings,
Henry David Thoreau,
Beatrix Potter
Famous Authors Who Were Rejected By Publishers
Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth - 14 times
Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead - 12 times
Patrick Dennis- Auntie Mame - 15 times
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull - 140 times
Joseph Heller - Catch-22 - 22 times (!)
Mary Higgins Clark - first short story - 40 times
Alex Haley - before Roots - 200 rejections
Robert Persig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - 121 times
John Grisham - A Time to Kill - 15 publishers and 30 agents (he ended up
publishing it himself)
Chicken Soup for the Soul - 33 times
Dr. Seuss - 24 times
Louis L'Amour - 200 rejections
Jack London - 600 before his first story
Margaret Mitchell - Gone
With the Wind received 38 times
J. K. Rowling’s original
work was pooh poohed by 12 publishers
E. E. Cummings first work — The Enormous Room, now considered a masterpiece — was
ultimately self-published...and dedicated to the 15 publishers who
rejected it.
John Creasy - 774 rejections before selling his first story. He went on
to write 564 books, using fourteen names.
Jerzy Kosinski - 13 agents and 14 publishers rejected his best-selling
novel when he submitted it under a different name, including Random
House, which had originally published it.
Diary of Anne Frank
Stephen King’s first four novels were rejected. "This guy from Maine sent
in this novel over the transom",
said Bill Thompson, his former editor at Doubleday. Mr. Thompson,
sensing something there, asked to see subsequent novels, but still
rejected the next three. However, King withstood the rejection, and Mr.
Thompson finally bought the fifth novel, despite his colleague’s lack of
enthusiasm, for $2,500. It was called Carrie.
During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic, Moby
Dick, sold only 3,715 copies.
