Consider self-publishing. I searched the internet for self-published authors and came up with the following:
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 * A Kabri From Windemere, by Karen M. Lane
OTHER FAMOUS AUTHORS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED
Deepak Chopra * Gertrude Stein * Zane Grey * Upton Sinclair * Carl Sandburg * Ezra Pound * Mark Twain * Edgar Rice Burroughs * Stephen King * 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.
Self-publication saves you the rejection slips, time, postage, and dejection. You KNOW your book is good. You've put your heart and soul into it! Sometimes, self-publication is the only way to get it 'Out There' where others can enjoy it too.
Good Luck and Happy Writing
~Kabri
