You've led an interesting life. Now you're dying to tell the big wide world all about it. For the last year or two, or more, you've been busy working on your autobiography manuscript which you aim to transform into a book.

It's a fairly common scenario, would you believe, repeated often across the world. Hundreds - more likely thousands - of potential writers, beavering over the keyboards of their Macs as you read this, are dreaming about the moment some book publisher takes them by the hand and turns all the hard effort into a major best seller.

Wakey, wakey!. It's just a childish dream. You've likely got more a chance of winning this week's national lottery! But hey, don't let a little dose of realism stop you dreaming. Head for your favourite search engine - Google, Yahoo or Bing - and pull off a list of book publishers. Each publisher will likely have a web page telling you not only how to submit your autobiography, but also where to and to whom. Easy!

The instructions will vary, of course. You may be able to submit the first chapter by means of an online form. Or you might have to send them an actual physical copy. Make sure you pay attention to any formatting instructions. Then chill and forget about it for the next few weeks or months.

Notice the bit saying if you haven't heard anything within three months or so then you've to assume your autobiography memoir has been turned down? You did? Well good for you.

So you wait and wait some more. Before you realise it the days turn into weeks and then into months. But you're not down about the poor response. No, you're not depressed. What do these publishers know anyway? There are tons more to try. So you submit your memoir to some more publishers in the list.

Months pass by and now turn into yet more months. The doubts creep slowly in but you're not ready to give up the ghost. By chance, someone mentions book agents. Superb idea. Get someone else to do the legwork. A 10-15% commission rate seems very reasonable.

Back to Google and Yahoo and Bing and before you know it a second list is in your hands. Once more, you can submit via an online form or send a printed copy. Then the waiting starts all over again. Weeks and months pass by.

The doubts begin to surface once more even although you still believe your autobiography is good enough to capture the imagination of the reading public.

But maybe it's at this low point the penny at last begins to drop. You look at all the best seller offerings on Amazon and realise the number of celebs dominating the listings. When you also start reading about some of the lesser well known authors, telling all about how they got their book published, you also realise how lucky they were to have had a friend of a friend who happened to have a contact in the industry.

But the dream is not lost. Because a new phenomenon is quietly revolutionising the industry and it's called Print On Demand (POD for short).

And the most shallow of searches online uncovers a plethora of companies offering the service. Without doubt, one of the best is The Choir Press.

To see just what a fantastic job they can do, click on the resource box link and purchase the book No Easy Road by Patsy Whyte. You'll be impressed by the story AND the superb quality of the book. I guarantee it!

Unfortunately, POD will cost some hard earned cash. But if you have the belief in your book, and you are desperate to see it in print, then perhaps it's a price worthy of paying. POD is driven by the customer. There's no requirement to hold in stock a million copies in a shady warehouse somewhere. That's what Print On Demand is all about, printing on demand as and when, whether supplying one customer or 500.

As a result, more and more writers are turning to Print On Demand, and making money out of it too, realising the traditional way into book publishing is practically impossible. Print On Demand and using effectively the power of the internet is an irresistible combination.

If you can't take rejection but still want to see your life story in print, then self-publishing and POD may be the way to go.