A How-to Guide and Things to Know. Simply publishing your work yourself. You become the publisher.
Many publishing houses are unwilling to invest in an unproven writer with an unrecognizable name.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, Stephen Crane, Washington Irving, James Joyce, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Pope, Ernest Hemingway, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Virginia Woolf, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, T. S. Elliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, E. Lynn Harris, and John Grisham were at one time unproven writers with unrecognizable names who self-published their first work. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was rejected by no less than five publishers. James Joyce's first book of short stories was rejected by over 20 publishers. Books such as The Godfather, Love Story and The Celestine Prophecy were initially rejected. There are eight reasons why you should self-publish your work.