hmmm, well "The Celestine Prophecy" springs to mind: a piece of crap that was not accepted by ANY publisher and was self-p[ublished by the author..it went on to become a big ole New Age (rhymes with sewage) best-seller and I am pretty sure the author (and I use the term loosely, goddess, is this book badly written, I was assigned to review it and could not get past the first twenty pages) is now a millionaire...