It has never been easy to have your creative writing output accepted by traditional publishing houses.

Witness these famous masters of fiction who were all obliged to take the route of shelling out hard cash to have their debut novels printed.

Alexandre Dumas
D.H. Lawrence
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Rice Burroughs
George Bernard Shaw
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
John Grisham
Mark Twain
Mary Baker Eddy
Rudyard Kipling
Stephen Crane
Upton Sinclair
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
William Blake
Zane Grey

John Grisham, incidentally, sold copies of his first novel “A Time to Kill” out of the boot of a car which at the outset was his sole ‘vehicle’ for distribution?

And it is getting tougher all the time – even for established authors.

It can be doubly frustrating when you’ve written something that you are desperate to see in print; something you want other people to read.

There is always recourse to the expensive vanity publishing houses but I wouldn’t take that route come what may.

Would you?

Imagine my surprise then when I stumbled across the perfect solution for publishing creative output that you cannot place elsewhere.

I have a string of traditionally published titles currently selling in bookstores world wide but I have an almost equal string that I have never been able to get into print.

That is until now?

The little known but highly reputable POD (print on demand) source I have discovered requires an initial membership fee that covers UNLIMITED titles – perfect bound with ISBN and free shipping to customers

In a nutshell: Instead of requiring you to place an initial order for 10 to 100 books, this innovative publisher provides the first copy of your book free of charge and then prints-on-demand and ships when they receive subsequent orders from you and your customers.

This website featured in the resource box below is well worth a visit especially if you are still struggling to get your first book into print. You could have your own personal library up and running in next to no time.

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to make a best-selling book?

I’ll tell you the secret, having written 12 books that have collectively sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

In a word, to make a book a best-seller, you need SALES!

Yes, this is obvious, but it’s also profound.

A potential best-seller has to be put into a sales channel, promoted vigorously, reprinted often, and shepherded along its way to ultimate success.

Secondly, it helps if it has a catchy title, is well written, and it pertains to a topic or has a plot in which readers are interested.

But the latter characteristics are not essential.

With a great sales effort you can make an average book a hit.

How do I know this?

I started my book career by selling them, for Time-Life, and having succeeded, I became a sales manager with them. Literally, our division sold millions of books, making them genuine best-sellers, yet they never appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.

How could these monster successes be overlooked?

They were sold by phone, in kiosks at malls, by mail, and through various retail displays that are not tracked by best-seller list compilers.

Ask any contemporary New York book publisher whether they’re pleased with selling works through bookstores, and you won’t hear the end of their lamentations.

This is why so many editors try to get today’s authors to sell their own stuff, at the back of seminar rooms and to their own customer and client lists. There are many more effective sales channels than the large retail book chains.

So, if you want to write a genuine best-seller, spend more time worrying about the sales and marketing end, and less about the actual craft of writing.

If you can figure out how to sell large numbers of books, believe me, every big publisher will think you’re a literary genius!

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