Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I'm sick to death of snobs!

I'm nowhere near as good as the following authors, but please note, I have one thing in common with all of them. They, like myself, have all been at one time self published! I'm so sick of snobs (mostly ignorant jerks from the LOCAL press) who tell me I'm not REALLY published, since I'm self published. Oh, yeah? Well, go suck eggs, Journal-Gazette and News Sentinel! Go to h-e- double hockey sticks, all of you who think self publishing is for nobodies! I'm sick to death of you! Here's a list of nobodies for you dummies to ponder!

Alexander Dumas
Alexander Pope
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Anais Nin
Beatrix Potter
Benjamin Franklin
Bernard Shaw
Carl Sandburg
Christopher Paolini
D.H. Lawrence
Deepak Chopra
E. Lynn Harris
E.E. Cummings
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ernest Hemingway
Ezra Pound
George Bernard Shaw
Gertrude Stein
Henry David Thoreau
Homer
Irma Rombauer
Jack Canfield and Mark Hensen
James Redfield
John Grisham
John Muir
Julius Caesar
Ken Blanchard
L.Frank Baum
L.Ron Hubbard
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Leo Tolstoy
Lord Byron
Louis L'Amour
Marcel Proust
Mark Twain
Marlo Morgan
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pat Conroy
Percy Bysche Shelly
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
Pope John Pual II
Richard Bolles
Richard Nixon
Richard Paul Evans
Robert Bly
Robert Service
Robinson Jeffers
Rod McKuen
Rudyard Kipling
St. Matthew
St. Mark
St. Luke
St. John
St. Paul
St. James
St. Jude
St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas
Spencer Johnson
Stephen Crane
Stephen King
T.S. Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Tom Peters
Upton Sinclair
Virginia Woolf
W.E.B. DuBois
Walt Whitman
Willie Cather
William Blake
William E.B. DuBois
William Shakespeare
Zane Grey

Need I say more? The point being, I'm not all that great, but I'm self published, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let others say I'm not good enough or that I'm a nobody just because I happen to be self published.