Of Interest

Did you know that more than 50,000 manuscripts are written each year and only about 5% of those manuscripts are published.

Does this mean that the other 95% are not worth publishing? Of course not.

New and emerging authors have always had difficulty getting their manuscripts published. These days, even large publishers are reducing the ranks of their author stables, and established authors are looking for alternative publishing options.

These are among the most famous self-published authors; Margaret Atwood, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Ken Blanchard, Robert Bly, Richard Bolles, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, Willa Cather, Pat Conroy, Stephen Crane, e.e. cummings, W.E.B. DuBois, Alexander Dumas, T.S. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Benjamin Franklin, Zane Grey, John Grisham, Thomas Hardy, E. Lynn Harris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, L. Ron Hubbard, Robinson Jeffers, Spencer Johnson, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, Louis L'Amour, D.H. Lawrence, Rod McKuen, Marlo Morgan, John Muir, Richard Nixon, Anais Nin, Thomas Paine, Tom Peters, Edgar Allen Poe, Alexander Pope, Beatrix Potter, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, James Redfield, Irma Rombauer, Carl Sandburg, Robert Service, George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, William Strunk, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoi, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf.

Those books you see stacked at the entrance of a bookstore is the publishers way to manipulate the reading public. Many of those will be returned to the publisher. Are you impressed upon seeing the statement "over 1,000,000 in print?" Don't be, most of those books will have the covers torn off and the remainder shreaded to become recycled into pulp.