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Self-publishing and toilet paper
27/09/2005 . Source: Jessica Martin 
JK Rowling, Agatha Christie and Hunter S. Thompson all got their share of publishers' rejection letters. Stephen King got so many that he used to nail them on a spike in his bedroom. Now, authors whose work has met similar rejection have the chance to put it behind them and get even thanks to a website that lets them print their rejection letters onto rolls of customized toilet paper.
Lulu is a service that lets writers self-publish their own book, e-book, calendar . . . and now toilet roll.
"We reject the idea of rejection," says Bob Young, CEO of Lulu. "Lulu lets anyone publish their work - and the world decides on its merits."
The first author to use the new service is D. Judson Hindes, 52, a Florida writer who has just used Lulu to self-publish a science fiction novel called "Haltia and The Third Planet" (www.lulu.com/JudPub). "I originally submitted the manuscript to every publisher I could think of," he says. "All of them gave me the standard rejection slips. When Spielberg does the movie, they'll be worth a fortune."
"Orwell, Joyce, Gertrude Stein and almost any writer you could name received rejection letters," points out Lulu's Bob Young. "Margaret Mitchell got them from 38 publishers before one deigned to publish 'Gone With The Wind.'"
This is the first known effort to recycle the rejection letters that a reported half-million American authors still receive from publishers each year.
The new Lulu service recalls the remark attributed to - among others - Winston Churchill, who is reputed to have written in reply to an unwelcome letter: "Dear Sir, I am in the smallest room of the house. I have your letter before me. Soon it will be behind me."
The new Lulu service is over at: http://www.lulu.com/tp
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