A recent post in “PW” (http://www.publishersweekly.com/) notes that "Lifetime" has purchased the film rights for a bestselling novel from an author who self-published her first book. In 1996, having received rejections slips for her novel, "Behind Closed Doors" from rafts of publishing houses and literary agents, Kimberla Lawson Roby formed her own company and paid to have her book published. Within six months, she sold more than 10,000 copies, and the rest, as they say, is history. At the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, film rights to Roby’s "One in a Million" were sold. Rory has subsequently published with Black Classics Press, Kensington Books and Morrrow. She has received the Blackboard Fiction Book of the Year Award and Author of the Year presented by the African American Literary Show in New York. Many other self-published authors have gone on to win awards, become bestselling authors, and launch successful publishing careers. For example, one Dorrance author, A. R. Ammons, self-published his first book of verse, "Ommateum", and went on to win the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Success on this scale is noteworthy.