Famous People Who Have Self-published
As said, the publishing industry has been out of touch with their readership for way too long! Look below to see a partial list of well know authors who were forced to self-publish. When is this cycle going to stop?
Herb Alpert, 1962, did his first record album. It was a smashing success.
Phyllis Balch, Prescription for Nutritional Healing
William Blake
Amanda Brown, Legally Blonde
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan
Deepak Chopra
Stephen Crane
E.E. Cummings
Charles Darrow, the Monopoly Game (not a book, the game)
Laura Doyle
Alexandre Dumas, The 3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Betty J. Eadie
Mary Baker Eddy
T.S. Eliot
Howard Fast, Spartacus
Edward Fitzgerald, translated The Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam
Benjamin Franklin
Sonia P. Fuentes
Galileo Gahilei, The Starry Messenger
George Gordon Lord Byron, Don Juan
Zane Grey
John Grisham, A Time To Kill
Thomas Hardy
Paul Hartunian
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter
Louise Hay, Heal Yourself
Ernest Hemingway
Capt. Richard Hornberger, M*A*S*H, under the pen name Richard Hooker
L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics
James Joyce, Ulysses (Finnegans Wake)
Les Kelley, The Kelly Blue Book
Stephen King, the first to self-publish a novel via serialized format on
the Internet.
Rudyard Kipling
Louis L'Amour
D.H. Lawrence
Sandra Haldeman Martz, "When I Am Old, I Shall Wear Purple"
Rod McKuen, songwriter and poet
Anais Nin
Richard Nixon, Real Peace
Thomas Paine, (1776)
Tom Peters, In Search of Excellence
Edgar Allen Poe
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Ezra Pound
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
James Redfield, The Celestine Prophesy
Robert J. Ringer, Winning Through Intimidation, Looking Out For #1
Henry Martyn Robert, Robert's Rules of Order
Irma Rombauer, (1931) The Joy of Cooking
Carl Sandberg
George Bernard Shaw
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Upton Sinclair
Gertrude Stein
William Strunk, (1918) The Elements of Style
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert B. Thomas, (1792) Old Farmers Almanac
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Leo Tolstoi, War and Peace
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
Visit http://www.bookmarket.com/tipblog2.html for more great writers who
have self-published.
It will amaze you.
