Self-made individuals seem to enjoy success more, having had to endure blows before achieving success. Today’s Xlibris Blog Author Advice touches on old and contemporary writers who got rejected by traditional publishers, started out as self-published authors to express their flair for writing, and later achieved fame, as well as financial success. We hope this provides you with fresh insights about self-publishing to realize your writing success.
The Xlibris Blog brings you notable self-published authors in history, such as Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Anaïs Nin, among others, while E.L. James, Amanda Hocking, and J. A. Konrath have become today’s household names.
For many of them, fame and money were only secondary. Their ultimate drive was their passion for the craft. For instance, British Nobel Laureate in literature Rudyard Kipling was so dedicated in his writing that he wrote almost every day of the year. E.L. James, the British author of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, began as a fan fiction writer before she reaped the fruits of her labor.
Read more about them at Xlibris Writer’s Workshop.