Controlling your own publishing destiny can be the best decision you make for your book(s).  Essentially, our writing/publishing services facilitate that “control” for authors and help them to establish a firm business/commercial foundation for their writing efforts.  Our business, writing and publishing experience, knowledge and infrastructure are ideally suited to do this successfully for clients.

Getting your book(s) published through your own actions not leaving it to the whim of a traditional publishing company to “accept” you has proven commercially successful for many:

• John Grisham could not get a publisher interested in his first novel "A Time to Kill" so he self-published it and sold copies out of the trunk of his car.
• Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and book series, self-published an original eBook, "God's Debris", early in 2001 as a way of testing the market for a new book. As a result, he was able to get an “unusually good deal” from his regular publisher, Andrews McMeel, when he sold them the book rights.
• Amanda Brown used First Books to self-publish her first novel "Legally Blonde" as a print-on-demand book. Her self-published book was made into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon. A year and a half after the movie was made, Plume published her book, with an additional chapter on what's next for Elle Woods. Plume will also publish the sequel, "Red, White & Blonde". In the meantime, Dutton will be publishing a hardcover of another novel, "Family Trust", which has already been optioned for a movie by Hillary Swank and Chad Lowe.
• Business consultant Tom Peters self-published "In Search of Excellence" and sold more than 25,000 copies directly to consumers in the first year. He then sold the rights to Warner, whose edition has gone on to sell more than 10 million copies.
• Cindy Cashman, with her then-partner Alan Garner, self-published "Everything Men Know About Women" (using the pseudonym of Dr. Alan Francis), and sold more than half a million copies of the blank book before selling rights to Andrews McMeel. The book has now sold more than a million copies. Many copies of the book were sold through Spencer's gift stores and women’s clothing stores.
• H. Jackson Brown originally self-published his "Life's Little Instruction Book". Soon thereafter, the book was bought by Rutledge Hill, a local publisher, who went on to sell more than 5 million copies. The book made the bestseller lists in both hardcover and softcover, and continues to be a great seller around graduation time each year.
• In 2001, Lisa Daily self-published "Stop Getting Dumped". With the help of publicist Sherri Rosen, she attracted so much publicity for the book that she was able to sell the rights to Penguin for a tidy sum.
• James Redfield sold 80,000 copies of "The Celestine Prophecy" from the trunk of his car. He then sold the reprint rights to Warner Books for $800,000. The book has gone on to sell 5.5 million copies. American poet Walt Whitman self-published many editions of his collected poems, Leaves of Grass (first edition published on July 4, 1855). Leaves of Grass continues to sell thousands of copies each year — almost 120 years after his death!
• Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson originally self-published "The One-Minute Manager" so they could sell the book for $15.00. All of the experts told them that they’d never sell such a short book for such a high price. In a three-month period of time, however, they sold more than 20,000 copies in the San Diego area alone — and then sold the reprint rights. More than 12 million copies have been sold since 1982, in more than 25 languages.
• Richard Bolles originally self-published "What Color Is Your Parachute?" More than 10 million copies have been sold so far in 14 languages.
• Robert Kiyosaki sold more than a million copies of his self-published "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" in less than three years. He went on to add several more major bestsellers in the series.
• Deepak Chopra vanity-published his first book and then sold the rights to Crown Publishing. The book became the first of many best sellers for him.
• Roger Price and Leonard Stern self-published an entire series of Mad Libs books that have sold almost 150 million copies and helped establish their publishing company, Price Stern Sloan (which they later sold to Penguin Putnam).
• "Feed Me, I’m Yours" by Vicky Lansky sold 300,000 copies before she sold the book to Bantam, which sold 8 million more.
• Tim O’Reilly, President of O’Reilly & Associates, started out as a self-publisher of books on UNIX. He now runs the fourth largest trade computer book publisher, which grew out of his self-publishing efforts.
• Judith Appelbaum originally self-published "How to Get Happily Published", then sold the rights to Harper Collins. The book has now been through many editions and has sold more than 500,000 copies.
• Irish-born British playwright and author George Bernard Shaw started out as a jobbing printer who self-published some of his own work. He went on to write many famous plays, including "Pygmalion" and "Saint Joan". In addition, he founded the Fabian Society and won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
• Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of "The House of the Seven Gables", "The Scarlet Letter", and other American classics, paid for the publication of his first book.
• Russian count and novelist Leo Tolstoy paid 4,500 rubles for the first printing of his major novel, "War and Peace", which is considered one of the greatest novels in world literature. His other major novel was "Anna Karenina".
• American poet and short story writer Edgar Allen Poe, author of the poem "The Raven" and short stories such as "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the House of Usher", self-published some of his writings.
• Irish author James Joyce, author of "Ulysses", "Finnegans Wake", and many other novels, paid for the printing of Ulysses in 1922 with the help of some of his friends.
• Benjamin Kaplan, author of "How to Go to College Almost for Free", turned down several six-figure offers from major publishers before he went on to self-publish his book. By the time he sold 25,000 copies, he was featured in a major story in the Sunday New York Times Business Section. At the ripe old age of 23, he sold reprint rights for that book and his book The Scholarship Scouting Report to HarperCollins for seven figures.
• French novelist Alexandre Dumas, author of such swashbuckling romances as "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo", self-published some of his first books.
• In 1939, Louis L'Amour privately published his first book, a collection of poems known as "Smoke from This Altar". Years later the collection was republished by Bantam, and has gone on to sell more than 100,000 copies. More than 10 years after his poetry book was published, his first novel was published. His 100 westerns have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, and 45 of his novels and short stories have been made into movies.
• Brenda Ponichtera self-published and promotes her Quick & Healthy Cookbooks, which have sold more than half a million copies.
• British poet Alexander Pope, author of the satirical mock-epic poems "The Rape of the Lock" and "The Dunciad", paid for the publication of his first book.
• After publisher Frederick Warne rejected "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" because of the costs of printing the illustrations, Beatrix Potter self-published a limited edition of 250 copies in 1901. When Warne saw the finished book, he immediately recognized the book’s commercial possibilities and brought out a commercial edition with color illustrations in 1902. To date the book has sold more than 40 million copies and been translated into 35 languages.
• Irma Rombauer used $3,000 from her husband's estate to self-publish "The Joy of Cooking" in 1931. Since then, this cookbook has sold millions of copies. Today, more than 75 years later, it still sells more than 100,000 copies per year. In November 1997, Scribners published a completely revised fifth edition, the first new edition in 20 years. By early December 1997, the book had already made the bestseller lists with more than 750,000 copies in print.
• Phil Laut sold more than 200,000 copies of his book, "Money Is My Friend". He went on to sell mass-market rights to Ballantine Books, and foreign rights to Germany, Serbia-Croatia, South Korea, Iceland, Spain, France, and the Netherlands.
• Medard Laz self-published the first 5,000 copies of "Love Adds a Little Chocolate", a collection of 100 stories to brighten your day. He then sold the rights to Warner Books, which went on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies.
• John Muir founded the company that bears his name in order to self-publish his multi-million-copy bestseller, "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive". The book still sells thousands of copies each year.
• Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz self-published "How to Be Your Own Best Friend". The book sold so well in their local area, the West Coast, that Random House paid them a $60,000 advance for the rights to publish the book nationally.
• In 1776, Thomas Paine self-published "Common Sense", a 46-page pamphlet that sold more than 500,000 copies and helped to draw more people to fight in the American Revolution. His pamphlet has been called the single most influential political work in American history.
• Keith Herrell, one of the nation's top motivational speakers, self-published his first book, "Attitude Is Everything", which sold well. He went on to sell his second book to HarperCollins for an upper-six figure price.
• Les and Sue Fox self-published "The Beanie Baby Handbook" in 1997. By July 1998 they had gone back to press eight more times, for an in-print total of 3 million copies while the book established itself in the #2 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List (under Advice, How-to, and Miscellaneous). Later they published "The Beanie Baby Cookbook". This is an excellent example of a self-publisher who took a hot topic and ran with it long before any larger publishers could get a book out on the topic.
• Nobel-Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway, author of such classics as "The Sun Also Rises", "The Old Man and the Sea", and "For Whom the Bell Tolls", paid for the publication of his first book.
• T.S. Eliot, author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", paid for the publication of his first book.
• In 1977, student teacher John Cassidy joined with two college pals to self-publish "Juggling for the Complete Klutz" as a little stapled book, which had come out of a mimeographed high school lesson plan. The book went on to sell more than 2.5 million copies and led to the establishment of Klutz Press, which has published 50 books. Nine of those books have won Parents' Choice Awards and 12 have made the Publishers Weekly Children's Bestseller List. Klutz Press was bought in 2000 for $74 million by Nelvana, which in turn was bought by Corus Entertainment. In March 2002, Scholastic bought Klutz Press from Corus for $43 million.
• Benjamin Franklin, using the pen name of Richard Saunders, self-published his Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1732 and continued to produce the Almanack for another 26 years.
• Novelist Willa Cather paid for the publication of her first book. Her novel "One of Ours" won the Pulitzer Prize.
• Dave Chilton self-published "The Wealthy Barber" and made it into a #1 bestseller in Canada, with more than a million copies sold. He then went on to sell an additional 2-million-plus copies in the United States via Prima Publishing.
• In 1973, Bill Dalton self-published "A Traveler's Notes: Indonesia". By the time he sold the company he had founded, Moon Publications, it had published almost 100 titles and was the largest American publisher of guidebooks for independent travelers. Moon Handbooks is now a division of Avalon Travel Publishing, which ranks third in guidebook sales by American publishers, behind only Fodor's and Frommer's.
• Dennis Damp founded Brookhaven Press to self-publish "The Book of Government Jobs", which has now been through eight editions.
• L. Ron Hubbard originally self-published his book, "Dianetics", which founded a new church, Scientology, and has sold more than 20 million copies over the past 45 years
• Sandra Haldeman Martz self-published "When I Am An Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple", which went on to sell more than 4 million copies. Prior to this, she had been told that short story collections and poetry do not sell, especially if written by unknown authors.