Confessions of a fraud: the art of self-promotion.(self publishing)

Publication: Curve

Publication Date: 01-NOV-05

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Anais Nin, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein were all maverick writers who believed in their craft enough to resort to self-publishing, but none of them did it by assuming enough personalities to give Sybil a migraine.

For me, multiple personalities were the way to go.

I was 22 when I decided to publish my first book and 24 when I found myself owning and operating two companies with a completely false staff of employees--all me.

It all started when I decided to take a stab at getting a collection of poetry published. (I was in love with Sylvia Plath at the time.) I bought a copy of Writer's Market and queried 20 agents. No...

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