11/26/2012
Mark Twain, Dr. Seuss, John Grisham and others were rejected originally by publishers. John Grisham was rejected 200 times for his A Time to Kill novel. Some of these authors, Grisham Among them self-published.
http://www.alphagraphicsorem.com/orem-self-publishing-company/
Some famous Self-Published authors you may know are Beatrix Potter, The Adventures of Peter Rabbit; John Grisham, A Time to Kill; Mark Twain; Edgar Allen Poe, Benjamin Franklin. Some famous authors who were rejected sometimes 200 times by publishers: Dr. Suess, Louis L’Amour(2).