Reviews

FAMOUS SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS

• Remembrance of things Past, by Marcel Proust
• Ulysses, by James Joyce
• The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
• A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
• The Wealthy Barber, by David Chilton
• The Bridges of Madison County
• What Color is Your Parachute
• In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters
• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (and his student E. B. White)
• The Joy of Cooking
• When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
• Life’s Little Instruction Book
• Robert’s Rules of Order

OTHER FAMOUS AUTHORS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED

• Deepak Chopra
• Gertrude Stein
• Zane Grey
• Upton Sinclair
• Carl Sandburg
• Ezra Pound
• Mark Twain
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Stephen Crane
• Bernard Shaw
• Anais Nin
• Thomas Paine
• Virginia Wolff
• e.e. Cummings
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Rudyard Kipling
• Henry David Thoreau
• Benjamin Franklin
• Walt Whitman
• Alexandre Dumas
• William E.B. DuBois
• Beatrix Potter

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 – 20 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
• 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
• During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville’s timeless classic, Moby Dick, sold only 3,715 copies.

Attribution to: Dan Poynter

‘nough said!

If abuse were defined only as physical abuse, then this book does not qualify. But, in the broad sense of the word and its reality, verbal and emotional abuse is an insidious disease that eats at the hearts of the victim.

Not one to want a label, Salma refuses to accept that her husband is one such man, a cruel, unkind partner who tears her down at every opportunity to make himself feel better. Life teaches her. Her children bless her. In her new job she learns of love and caring without the need for abuse.

A journey of growth and freedom from oppression. This is the story of a woman who loved her husband blinding herself to his reality. As her life evolves and she needs to take care of her children, she grows out of it and removes the rose colored glasses to see him as he really is.

A good book that will make you smile, cry and get frustrated at times. This is the book for women who need courage and hope without the man on the white horse saving them.

***** Yes, I wrote it.

This isn’t a casual read. It represents a considerable investment in time and effort. Many characters, settings, plot lines and underlying principles to keep straight…. Yet, it is worth the investment of yourself. Even the language is of its own as you need to learn new lingo, so to speak to get the gist of the tale.

Like so many of Barker’s other novels, there is a hidden world behind the our natural world. Barker is such a master at interweaving mundane, and profane, details into the greater fabric of his realities that you find yourself totally drawn in. You find yourself immersed in the hidden reality of this magical tale.

Five worlds, five dimensions or Dominions make up this world. These make up the whole of Imajica. Two hundred years before, there was an attempt to reconcile our world called the fifth Dominion with the other four. This ended in a metaphysical catastrophe so great that almost all of the Dominions great theurgists, shamans, and theologians were killed. The result was that almost all magical knowledge passed from our world and for two centuries science and materialism held us in their disastrous clutches.

You get the picture. An amazing book to sink your teeth into with well written syntax and amazing story line.

Enjoy!

*****