I've been writing fiction as early as ten years old. In that eighteen year time span, I have completed two novels ready for publication, one of which took me nearly ten years, several drafts and outright story changes before I was happy with it.
This one I've shopped around in various forms and I've had poor luck as it does not fit any one genre, not really. Too psychological for the mainstream and too straightforward to be experimental. The second is a little more marketable, but it is about a subculture of society.
As such, for all of my attempts, all I have to show for it is a stack of rejection letters which could have made a third book to submit.
I sought out independent publishers and found two in particular that I admired. Both sent the same letter. We are unable to find a fit. Thank you for submitting.
I'm starting to research self publishing and print on demand. It sounds too good to be true, vanity press being exactly what it sounded like. However, with communities and networking sites such as this among others, there is a chance I could find success. I don't want to be the next John Grisham, I just want to make a profit.
What I want to know is if there are those here, or those that you know that have succeeded as self publishing authors, and have you done so here?

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