You can try to be the next Hemingway -- for $6,000

Self-publishing has made it possible to get your writing out in the world. But it hasnt made it cheapThe clock is ticking down: its only two months until National Novel Writing Month kicks off. Wannabe Stephen Kings and John Greens are sharpening their pencils, dusting off their ideas and booking vacation time for the month of November. Literary agents already are bracing themselves for a deluge of mostly unpublishable manuscripts that theyll start receiving weeks after that from authors dreaming of repeating the success of Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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