We've talked about this in the forums, but it's worth mentioning here. If you've written a book, and are finding it tricky to get published, take matters in hand and publish the thing yourself. Lulu.com is a great service (he vouched confidently, never having used it) for self-publishing your work as actual physical books that people can buy.

Their free basic service sees you uploading your manuscript to their server, and them creating a copy of a real book for anyone who orders it. No cost to you, and they just take a cut of all copies that are sold; no win, no fee. Although, for a bit of money upfront they'll even assign it an ISBN number, and that way you could walk into a local musty real bookshop and say, "I'm looking for a copy of <your_book> by <you>. It is rather old." And then of course surprise the shopkeep by admitting that in fact you are J.R. Hartley.

Lulu is a US service, but they ship worldwide, And frankly with the dollar the way it is, that's how you should be doing all your shopping right now.

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