One of my best friends just published a book. It took her several years to find a publisher and it was in editing for another 9 months - 1 year. She's in the entertainment biz with a small syndicated TV show and already had an agent so I'm sure that helped. It comes out this month and she'll be touring bookstores. She better give me an autographed copy ;)
Another guy I know published about 2 years ago and it took him 3+ years from start to finish.
Self publishing is easy, but then you have to find buyers. If you look at Amazon and see all the books that are under the top 500 you see that while a LOT of books can get published, that doesn't mean a lot are going to sell.
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