Cause I didn’t.
Most people by now know the story of Fifty Shades and The Martian starting out as self-published works. And anyone who knows anything about publishing also knows about Hugh Howey. But there are a few more titles I’d not known about until just a few minutes ago.
Legally Blonde.
Uh, weren’t there like three movies in this series? And it was originally a self-published book? Did not know that.
Still Alice.
I actually think I may have known about this one. Maybe. But I definitely know Julianne Moore won ALL the awards for her performance in the movie adaptation.
Eragon.
I think this has something to do with a dragon, right? I just know from the bits and pieces of the movie I’ve seen. Two interesting facts about this one. The author was 19 when he became a NYT bestselling author with this title. And he started writing when he was just 15. Yikes.
Did you know these were originally self-published? Or do you know of any other popular books/authors who were?
Johnny Reads 
I think Christopher Paolini is one of my all time favorite success stories. He and his parents traveled all over the country visiting schools and libraries until eventually a publisher heard of Eragon.😊
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I know. I read about him, though I’d never known his name before now.
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Eragon is definitely my all time favorite and Paolini’s success at such an age is really inspiring for me.
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All time favorite book? His success is a nice thing to read about.
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Definitely one of those at the top of my list. It’s hard to pick a favorite, since there are so many good ones out there, but I love that book.
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Hmm. I didn’t even know it was a book until recently.
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I knew about Eragon. I read it pretty early on after it was picked up for traditional publishing and watched an interview with Christopher Paolini.
I’ve read Legally Blonde, but didn’t know it was self-published.
I’ve never heard of Still Alice.
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Hmmm. I’d never even heard of Christopher Paolini until I wrote this. Mostly because I didn’t even know hardly anything about Eragon.
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