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	A '''vanity press''' or '''vanity publisher''' is a ] printer which, while claiming to be a ], charges ]s a fee in return for publishing their ]s or otherwise makes most of its money from the author rather than from the public. ] claims to have coined the term in 1959.<ref>http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=humbul16121</ref> In its very simplest terms, while a commercial publisher's intended market is the general public, a vanity publisher's intended market are the authors themselves. Many authorities consider an ] to be a kind of vanity publisher. A vanity press is distinguished from a ] publisher in that the small press acts as its larger cousins do, performing the traditional roles of editorial selection, binding and review, and marketing at its own expense, rather than at the expense of the author.
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			This is a list of well-known ]s or other members of ] (LDS Church) who have either been ] or have resigned from the church – as well as of individuals no longer self-identifying as LDS and those inactive individuals who are on record as not believing and/or not participating in the church. While the church doesn't regularly provide information about excommunication or resignation, those listed here have made such information public. In a very few cases, the list below may include former adherents of other ] who have ceased identifying as members of the Church, as well.
	The vanity companies often refer to themselves as '''joint-venture''' or '''subsidy publishers''', because the author "subsidizes" (or finances) the publication.
	A vanity press will generally agree to ] and ] any author's work if the author is willing to pay for the service; these fees typically form a vanity press's ]s.

			See: ] for current members of the LDS Church.
	Commercial publishers, on the other hand, derive their ] from sales of the book, and must therefore be cautious and deliberate in choosing to publish works that will sell, particularly as they must recoup their investment in the book (such as an ] and ] to the author, ]ial guidance, ], ], or ]). To better help sell their books, commercial publishers may also be selective in order to cultivate a reputation for high-quality work, or to specialize in a particular ].

			== Former and inactive members ==
	Because vanity presses are not as selective, publication by a vanity press is typically not seen as conferring the same recognition or prestige as commercial publication. Vanity presses do offer more independence for the author than does the mainstream publishing industry; however, their fees are often higher than the fees normally charged for similar printing services, and sometimes restrictive contracts are required.
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			===Artists, actors, and entertainment figures===
	==Differences from commercial publishers==
			* ], rapper, singer-songwriter, director, and founding member of ]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|title=Talking Family with Kevin Abstract\|url=https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/american-boyband-talking-family-with-kevin-abstract/5953fa86b742e6b35cb607ae\|access-date=2020-08-23\|website=Viceland\|language=en-us\|archive-date=2020-10-27\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027063113/https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/american-boyband-talking-family-with-kevin-abstract/5953fa86b742e6b35cb607ae\|url-status=live}}</ref>
	The term “vanity press” is generally derogatory, and is often used to imply that an author using such a service is only publishing out of ], and that his or her work could not be commercially successful. Some vanity presses are in fact ], including those identified at the ] (SFWA) . In general, any publisher that expects the author to pay a large fee upfront (while promising or hinting at fame and fortune), is most likely dishonest, and certainly should be approached warily.
			* ], actress known for roles in '']'', '']'', '']''<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://amyadamsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/artful-dodger-adams-reveals-just-what.html \|title= The artful dodger: Adams reveals just what she wants \|last= Parsi \|first= Navid \|work= ] \|date= 6 March 2008 \|access-date= 9 April 2012 \|archive-date= 6 November 2011 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111106145618/http://amyadamsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/artful-dodger-adams-reveals-just-what.html \|url-status= live }}</ref>
			]
			* ] is a singer who was raised in an LDS home but Aguilera has not self-identified as Mormon.<ref>{{cite book\|last1=Govan\|first1=Chloe\|title=Christina Aguilera\|date=28 October 2013\|publisher=Omnibus Press\|isbn=9781783050390\|pages=5–6,197\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ojADAwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1\|access-date=24 October 2021\|archive-date=28 October 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028022750/https://books.google.com/books?id=ojADAwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last1=Thunell\|first1=Pete\|title=Here's the skinny on LDS celebrity urban legends\|url=http://universe.byu.edu/2000/11/28/column-heres-the-skinny-on-lds-celebrity-urban-legends/\|work=Daily Universe\|publisher=Brigham Young University\|date=28 November 2000\|quote=I first heard this one out in New York when a friend told me Aguilera's parents met at BYU and her father was a member out on Staten Island. I did a little research on some of her Web sites (which proved to be pretty embarrassing in the newsroom) and found out her parents' names were Fausto and Shelly. I called up the BYU Alumni Association and found out that a Fausto Aguilera and his wife Shelly were at BYU in 1979. The best address I could find for Fausto was Staten Island which, coincidentally, is where Christina was born in 1980 (according to Rolling Stone, her parents later split up when she was seven). ... "Larry" got me the number of Christina's old home teacher, Tom Duty, back when she was nine and living in Pennsylvania.\|access-date=1 July 2020\|archive-date=3 July 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703141535/https://universe.byu.edu/2000/11/28/column-heres-the-skinny-on-lds-celebrity-urban-legends/\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last1=Whitney\|first1=Alyse\|title=Is Christina Aguilera Mormon? You Asked, We Answered!\|url=http://www.wetpaint.com/is-christina-aguilera-mormon-you-asked-we-answered-737894/\|work=WetPaint\|publisher=FunctionX Inc.\|date=22 November 2012\|access-date=1 July 2020\|archive-date=2 July 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702032115/http://wetpaint.com/is-christina-aguilera-mormon-you-asked-we-answered-737894/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], American pop singer<ref>{{Cite web \|title=David Archuleta on Stepping Back from Mormon Church After Coming Out as Queer: 'I Feel Liberated' \|url=https://people.com/music/david-archuleta-steps-back-from-mormon-church-after-coming-out-as-queer/ \|access-date=2022-12-01 \|website=Peoplemag \|language=en}}</ref>
			* ], director of ] films such as '']'' and '']''<ref>{{cite book \|last= Harris \|first= Mark \|date= 2008 \|title= Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood \|publisher= Penguin \|page= 203 }}</ref>
			* ], son of ] (]) and Canadian musician known for his 1999 hit song, "]"<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.postmormon.org/exp_e/index.php/pomopedia/My_Abbreviated_Exit_Story/\|title=My Abbreviated Exit Story - Post-Mormon Scrapbook\|access-date=8 November 2016\|archive-date=15 November 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115051312/http://www.postmormon.org/exp_e/index.php/pomopedia/My_Abbreviated_Exit_Story/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], Canadian musician and founder of ] and ]<ref>{{cite web\|title=Randy Bachman\|publisher=Brigham Young University\|url=https://mormonartsstg.lib.byu.edu/people/randy-bachman/}}</ref>
			* ], American pornographic actress<ref> {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504224923/http://www.oneangrygirl.net/Belladonna.htm \|date=2009-05-04 }}.</ref>
			* ], screenwriter and producer, 2009 Oscar for Best Screenplay for '']''<ref>{{cite magazine\| title = Sex, guys, and videotape: "reality" filmmaker Dustin Lance Black talks about turning the camera on himself—and on five young gay men out for fun—in On the Bus\| date = June 25, 2002\| magazine = ]\| first = Chuck\| last = Kim}}</ref>
			* ], sculptor most noted for the heads of ] on ]<ref>left the church with his family when they moved to Nebraska; George Thomas Kurian, American Studies Association, ''Encyclopedia of American studies'', Volume 3, 142 (Grolier Educational, Nov 1, 2001)</ref>
			*], actor known for ], ], ] commercials, and ] "diabeetus" meme<ref>{{Cite web\|url = https://www.deseret.com/1992/10/9/19009564/actor-angry-at-pressure-on-voters\|title = Actor Angry at Pressure on Voters\|date = 9 October 1992\|access-date = 4 May 2020\|archive-date = 28 October 2021\|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211028022759/https://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?callback=jQuery35108208986810421106_1635388077204&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deseret.com%2F1992%2F10%2F9%2F19009564%2Factor-angry-at-pressure-on-voters&format=jsonp&_=1635388077205\|url-status = live}}</ref>
			* ], frontman for the band ]<ref>{{cite web \|url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/28/arcade-fire-interview-sean-ohagan \|title= Arcade Fire: 'The clichéd rock life never seemed that cool to us' \|last= O'Hagan \|first= Sean \|work= ] \|date= 27 November 2010 \|access-date= 5 April 2012 \|archive-date= 13 October 2016 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161013082842/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/28/arcade-fire-interview-sean-ohagan \|url-status= live }}</ref>
			*], animation pioneer and president of ] and Walt Disney Animation<ref>{{cite news \|title=Animation pioneer Ed Catmull wants the boss to get out of the way of creativity \|last=Harvey \|first=Tom \|date=April 24, 2017 \|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune \|url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5187215&itype=CMSID \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209233726/http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5187215&itype=CMSID \|archive-date=December 9, 2017 \|access-date=April 30, 2020}}</ref>
			* ], brother of Phil, and member of ]{{citation needed\|date=November 2012}}
			* ], Scottish folk musician,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://living.scotsman.com/music/Interview-Phil-Cunningham-.4932184.jp \|title= Latest Lifestyle News \| the Scotsman\|website=living.scotsman.com \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100512191020/http://living.scotsman.com/music/Interview-Phil-Cunningham-.4932184.jp \|archive-date=May 12, 2010}}</ref> member of Silly Wizard
			* ], American pornographic actress.<ref name="auto">{{cite web\|url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/news/cytherea%E2%80%99s-comeback-rise-and-fall-mormon-girl-who-charted-new-course-adult \|title=Cytherea's Comeback\|website=lasvegascitylife.com\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006034935/http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/news/cytherea%E2%80%99s-comeback-rise-and-fall-mormon-girl-who-charted-new-course-adult?i \|archive-date=October 6, 2014\|access-date=September 5, 2018}}</ref>
			* ], the creator, producer and main character of '']''. He coined the term "Formon" for "former Mormon" in 1996.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://mormonstories.org/?p=1286 \|title=205-206 Mr. Deity's Brian Dalton \|first=John \|last=Dehlin \|date=October 20, 2010 \|work=Mormon Stories \|access-date=22 November 2010 \|archive-date=27 November 2010 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127030032/http://mormonstories.org/?p=1286 \|url-status=live }}</ref>
			* ], actress known for roles in '']'', '']'', '']''<ref name="maxim">{{cite web\|url=http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=4046&src=fc \|title=Faith No More \|author=Paul Young \|date=May 2001 \|publisher=Maxim Online \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180956/http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=4046&src=fc \|archive-date=2007-09-30 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.sltrib.com/topics/1538737-155/dushku-curtis-judy-mormon-buffy-daughter\|title=Eliza Dushku of 'Buffy,' 'Dollhouse' shares Comic Con stage with mom\|last=McFall\|first=Michael\|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune\|language=en-US\|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-date=2016-10-22\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022053232/http://www.sltrib.com/topics/1538737-155/dushku-curtis-judy-mormon-buffy-daughter\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/04/eliza-dushku-mitt-romney-mormon.html\|title=Eliza Dushku Recalls Her Childhood Crush on Mitt Romney\|newspaper=Daily Intelligencer\|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-date=2021-10-28\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028022749/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/04/eliza-dushku-mitt-romney-mormon.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], independent filmmaker and actor known for films '']'', '']'', '']''<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244756/\|title=Richard Dutcher\|website=]\|access-date=8 November 2016\|archive-date=22 October 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022051901/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244756/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], Golden Globe Award-nominated actor known for roles in '']'', '']'', '']''<ref>{{cite magazine \|url= https://ew.com/article/2006/03/17/aaron-eckhart-unfiltered/ \|title= Aaron Eckhart Unfiltered \|last= Kirschling \|first= Gregory \|date= 17 March 2006 \|magazine= ] \|access-date= 5 April 2012 \|archive-date= 7 October 2008 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081007204703/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1174151_2,00.html \|url-status= live }}</ref>
			* ], singer songwriter<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://wheatandtares.org/2019/01/27/previewing-rabbit-hole-by-mindy-gledhill/\|title=Wheat and Tares\|date=27 January 2019\|access-date=1 Feb 2020\|archive-date=1 February 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201202949/https://wheatandtares.org/2019/01/27/previewing-rabbit-hole-by-mindy-gledhill/\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPfjJb-jXwc \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/BPfjJb-jXwc \|archive-date=2021-12-19 \|url-status=live\|title=Mormon Stories Interview\|access-date=1 Feb 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
			* ], lead singer for the American ] band ]<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.mormonstories.org/tylerglenn\|title=631-633: Tyler Glenn of Neon Trees\|date=2016-04-14\|newspaper=Mormon Stories\|language=en-US\|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-date=2016-10-14\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014115519/http://www.mormonstories.org/tylerglenn/\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/arts/music/popcast-tyler-glenn-gay-mormon-excommunication.html\|title=Popcast: Tyler Glenn, a Gay Mormon Pop Star at the Crossroads\|last=Ganz\|first=Caryn\|date=2016-10-07\|newspaper=The New York Times\|issn=0362-4331\|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-date=2017-10-05\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005101710/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/arts/music/popcast-tyler-glenn-gay-mormon-excommunication.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], Academy Award-nominated actor known for roles in '']'', '']'', '']''<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/movies/2007/10/in-love-with-a-real-doll?p=2\|title=In Love with a Real Doll\|website=www.beliefnet.com\|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-date=2016-10-19\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019022928/http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/movies/2007/10/in-love-with-a-real-doll?p=2\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], Hollywood composer, known most notably for "When You Wish Upon a Star"<ref>"When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Legacy of Utah Composer Leigh Harline. Sandra Dawn Brimhall and Dawn Retta Brimhall. Utah Historical Quarterly. Vol. 85, no.2 ,</ref>
			* ], American former pornographic actress<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.annettehaven.net\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306080757/http://www.annettehaven.net/\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2012-03-06\|title=Annette Haven - Annette Haven\|date=2012-03-06\|access-date=2018-07-21}}</ref>
			* ], American actress<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865615597/Katherine-Heigl-talks-primetime-premiere-motherhood-Mormon-roots-and-Utah-home.html\|title=Katherine Heigl talks primetime premiere, motherhood, Mormon roots and Utah home\|last=Eyring\|first=Emily\|date=2014-11-17\|newspaper=DeseretNews.com\|access-date=2016-10-17\|archive-date=2016-10-18\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018211546/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865615597/Katherine-Heigl-talks-primetime-premiere-motherhood-Mormon-roots-and-Utah-home.html\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			* ], Canadian comedian<ref>{{Dead link\|date=March 2020 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
			* ], dancer, actress, singer, songwriter <ref>{{cite web \|title=Celebrities Who Grew Up Mormon and Revealed Their Experiences \|first=Sara \|last=Donnellan \|date=February 7, 2023 \|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/stars-who-grew-up-mormon-what-theyve-said-about-the-church \|website=Us Weekly}}/</ref>
			* ], playwright<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php?p=1873\|title=An Interview with Neil LaBute\|date=19 January 2005\|access-date=8 November 2016\|archive-date=28 September 2007\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928014410/http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php?p=1873\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], of the rock band ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://loudwire.com/the-used-bert-mccracken-past-present-future\|title=The Used's Bert McCracken on Time, Philosophy + More\|website=Loudwire\|date=12 March 2014 \|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-date=2019-04-16\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416025931/https://loudwire.com/the-used-bert-mccracken-past-present-future/\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1456134/now-that-the-used-are-no-longer-using-life-is-unreal\|title=Now That The Used Are No Longer Using, Life Is 'Unreal'\|newspaper=MTV News\|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-date=2018-10-02\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002201927/http://www.mtv.com/news/1456134/now-that-the-used-are-no-longer-using-life-is-unreal/\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/the-useds-bert-mccracken-im-brave-courageous-courteous-careful-loyal-thrifty-and-kind/837297\|title=The Used's Bert McCracken: "I'm brave, courageous, courteous, careful, loyal, thrifty and kind"\|date=2014-04-24\|newspaper=FasterLouder\|language=en-US\|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-date=2016-10-18\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018220024/http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/the-useds-bert-mccracken-im-brave-courageous-courteous-careful-loyal-thrifty-and-kind/837297\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			* ] is a drag queen with the stage name "Raven" and was raised Mormon.<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Hollenbach\|first1=Shawn\|title=Devout Mormon Mother Speaks About Her Drag Queen Son\|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/shawnh5/devout-mormon-mother-speaks-about-her-drag-queen-s-3re8\|work=BuzzFeed\|date=16 August 2011\|access-date=1 July 2020\|archive-date=1 July 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701233536/https://www.buzzfeed.com/shawnh5/devout-mormon-mother-speaks-about-her-drag-queen-s-3re8\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], Australian comedian<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1582425.htm?sydney \|title=ABC (Australia) \|website=] \|access-date=2008-01-25 \|archive-date=2007-03-11 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311130815/http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1582425.htm?sydney \|url-status=live }}</ref>
			* ], actor known for his television roles as Kyle McCarty on '']'', ] on '']'', and ] on '']''<ref name=KR>{{cite web\|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/53107914-80/rahm-desperate-housewives-lee.html.csp\|title=Kevin Rahm would like to go out in 'Desperate' glory\|publisher=]\|access-date=2017-08-05\|archive-date=2016-03-25\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325074348/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/53107914-80/rahm-desperate-housewives-lee.html.csp\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			*], singer for rock band ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/imagine-dragons-dan-reynolds-talks-privilege-lgbtq-rights-mental-health-and-why-society-is-broken-173257409.html\|title=Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds talks privilege, LGBTQ rights, mental health, and why 'society is broken'\|date=8 January 2020 \|access-date=2020-09-11\|archive-date=2020-09-11\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911172608/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/imagine-dragons-dan-reynolds-talks-privilege-lgbtq-rights-mental-health-and-why-society-is-broken-173257409.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], guitarist for rock band ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/wayne-and-alex-sermon-our-journey-with-imagine-dragons-and-mormonism/\|title=1181-1185: Wayne and Alex Sermon - Our Journey with Imagine Dragons and Mormonism\|date=7 October 2019 \|access-date=2020-05-08\|archive-date=2020-09-18\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918141714/https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/wayne-and-alex-sermon-our-journey-with-imagine-dragons-and-mormonism/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], actor and singer<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Hair's Will Swenson on Pantsless Acting and His Former Career in LDS Cinema \|last=Milzoff \|first=Rebecca \|date=March 31, 2009 \|url=https://www.vulture.com/2009/03/hairs_will_swenson_on.html \|access-date=November 9, 2023 \|website=Vulture \|quote=I don't practice Mormonism at all anymore, but I grew up in a Mormon family.}}</ref>
			* ], of rock band ]<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/panic-at-the-disco-s-frontman-brandon-urie-on-enthusiasm-being-a-mormon-sinatra-and-his-one-man-band-a6911286.html\|title=Panic! At The Disco's frontman on being the only original member left\|date=2016-03-04\|newspaper=The Independent\|language=en-GB\|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-date=2017-03-17\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317151907/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/panic-at-the-disco-s-frontman-brandon-urie-on-enthusiasm-being-a-mormon-sinatra-and-his-one-man-band-a6911286.html\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://davidatlanta.com/2014/08/out-to-win-panic-at-the-disco-frontman-brendon-urie-takes-on-westboro-talks-gay-past-and-lapsed-mormonism\|title=Out to Win: Panic! at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie takes on Westboro, talks 'gay' past and lapsed Mormonism – David Atlanta\|website=davidatlanta.com\|access-date=2016-10-16\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019155027/http://davidatlanta.com/2014/08/out-to-win-panic-at-the-disco-frontman-brendon-urie-takes-on-westboro-talks-gay-past-and-lapsed-mormonism/\|archive-date=2016-10-19\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			* ], American actress and podcaster<ref>The JV Club #29: nerdist.com/the-jv-club-29-cara-santa-maria/</ref>
			* ], actor known for role in '']'' film series<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://www.chacha.com/question/is-paul-walker-a-member-of-the-latter-day-saints-church \|title= Is Paul Walker a member of the Latter-day Saints' church? \|work= ] \|access-date= 9 April 2012 \|archive-date= 21 October 2013 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131021194609/http://www.chacha.com/question/is-paul-walker-a-member-of-the-latter-day-saints-church \|url-status= live }}</ref>
			* ], BBC children's TV presenter<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.mormonstories.org/alex-winters\|title=669-670: How U.K./BBC TV Star Alex Winters (CBeebies) Lost his Mormon Faith - Mormon Stories\|work=Mormon Stories\|access-date=2018-07-21\|language=en-US\|archive-date=2017-10-13\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013221308/http://www.mormonstories.org/alex-winters/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			*], composer and musician.<ref name="OUP">{{cite web \|title=Questions about La Monte Young, music, and mysticism \|url=https://blog.oup.com/2012/04/q-and-a-la-monte-young-music-mysticism-grimshaw/ \|website=OUPblog \|language=en \|date=10 April 2012}}</ref>
			* ], sculptor and grandson of ]<ref>Mahonri Young: His Life and Art; Thomas Toone, Signature Books, 1997</ref>
			* ], singer/songwriter<ref>{{cite journal\|last1=Fricke\|first1=David\|title=Warren Zevon and the Art of Dying\|journal=]\|date=November 28, 2002\|issue=910\|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/warren-zevon-and-the-art-of-dying-20021128\|access-date=5 May 2016\|archive-date=5 May 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505033636/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/warren-zevon-and-the-art-of-dying-20021128\|url-status=live}}</ref>

			===Business figures===
	Some companies offer ] (and perhaps limited distribution) for a fee. If honest, such companies will explain their fees, what they do and do not offer, and how their service differs from that of a commercial publisher. Such services can be a viable way for an author to ] without owning printing equipment. This is particularly attractive to an author of a work with a limited, specialized appeal which may not interest mainstream publishers, or to the author who intends to promote his or her work personally. However, the true distinction between vanity publishing and self-publishing is simple: who owns the books when they come off the printing press? If the answer is the printer, who then pays royalties to the author on the basis of books sold, then the book has been vanity published. If the author owns the books outright, and can thus dispose of them as he or she likes, then that author has self-published.
			* ], businessman and philanthropist, co-created ] software.
			* ], founder of ] and ]<ref>Learmouth, Michael (September 16, 1999). "No Pain, No Game". ''Metro''. Retrieved 7 June 2015</ref>
			* ], CEO of ] and philanthropist<ref name="signaturebookslibrary.org">{{Cite web\|url=http://signaturebookslibrary.org/leaving-the-fold-01/\|title=Leaving the Fold – 01 \|\|access-date=2020-05-05\|archive-date=2020-04-30\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430065620/http://signaturebookslibrary.org/leaving-the-fold-01/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], CEO of ] and Chairman of the ] System<ref>Beckoning Frontiers: Public and Personal Recollections. Marriner Eccles. Alfred Knopf, 1951.</ref>
			* ], sunglasses designer and founder of ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-16-tm-38675-story.html\|title = A trip to Planet Oakley\|website = ]\|date = 16 March 1997\|access-date = 2020-05-29\|archive-date = 2020-12-02\|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201202044926/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-16-tm-38675-story.html\|url-status = live}}</ref>
			* ], Founder of Braintree, ] and Kernel
			*], head of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad<ref>Bagley, Will. "Always A Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad." Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2008.</ref>

			===Sports figures===
	]s often ask authors to pay page charges but use ] to keep a high scientific standard. This is to be distinguished from the true vanity publisher, who will publish anything within their general market that will be paid for.
			* ], NFL star turned TV star <ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2010/03/about-merlins-mormonism \|title=About Merlin's Mormonism... \|website=getreligion.org \|date=March 15, 2010 \|access-date=December 1, 2022}}</ref>
			* ], Olympic Wrestling Champion.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iA77Sx2JI\|title=Olympic Champion Wrestler Mark Schultz Leaves Mormonism {{!}} Mormon Stories Podcast\|last=Dehlin\|first=John\|website=youtube.com\|date=28 December 2022 \|language=en\|access-date=2022-12-29}}</ref>
			* ], the winner of the 2006 ''So You Think You Can Dance'' show.
			{{CSS image crop\|Image = Misty Snow (30523743970 cropped).jpg\|bSize = 200\|cWidth = 180\|cHeight = 200\|oTop = 5\|oLeft = 15\|Location = right\|Description = Former Mormon Misty Snow<ref name="Misty" /> ran as the first transgender person nominated by a major party for the U.S. Senate.<ref name="Nominee" />}}

			===Scholars===
	Poets often ], as their work is generally of extremely specialized appeal, and therefore risky to mainstream publishers.
			* ], American literary critic and professor of English<ref>{{citation \|title= Confessions of an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-Missionary \|first= Wayne C. \|last= Booth \|journal= ] \|date= March 1998 \|pages= 25–36 \|url= https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/109-25-36.pdf \|access-date= 2014-10-22 \|archive-date= 2016-03-04 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130751/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/109-25-36.pdf \|url-status= live }}</ref>
	An inexperienced poet, whose manuscript has been repeatedly rejected by major edition companies, makes an easy target for vanity publishers.<ref>http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/Telemarketing/Inbound/MajorIn/publishing.htm</ref>
			* ], biochemist and ]<ref>{{cite web\|publisher=]\|url=https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/boyer-paul.pdf\|page=2\|title=Paul Delos Boyer\|last1=Clarke\|first1=Steven G.\|last2=Eisenberg\|first2=David S.}}</ref>
			* ], president of Oregon Agricultural College (now ]) from 1907 to 1932<ref>{{cite web \| author=Tom Bennett \| author2=George Edmonston Jr. \| title=Chapter 19: 'An odd mix of triumph and embarrassment'... Kerr begins his presidency \| work=Carry Me Back: A History of Oregon State University (1856-1999) \| publisher=Oregon State University Alumni Association \| date=October 26, 2001 \| url=http://www.osualum.com/s/359/index.aspx?sid=359&gid=1&pgid=532 \| access-date=2014-07-17 \| archive-date=2014-07-24 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724051714/http://www.osualum.com/s/359/index.aspx?sid=359&gid=1&pgid=532 \| url-status=live }}</ref>
			*], dean of the University of Utah law school, son of Mormon prophet ]<ref>{{citation \| first = Edward L. \| last = Kimball \| authorlink=Edward L. Kimball \| title = Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball \| year = 2005 \| location = Salt Lake City \| publisher = Deseret Book \| pages=75}}</ref>
			* ], theoretical physicist and ]<ref>{{cite web\|author1=Rory Carroll\|title=Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jun/21/kip-thorne-time-travel-scientist-film\|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited\|access-date=30 October 2014\|date=21 June 2013\|quote=Thorne grew up in an academic, Mormon family in Utah but is now an atheist. "There are large numbers of my finest colleagues who are quite devout and believe in God, ranging from an abstract humanist God to a very concrete Catholic or Mormon God. There is no fundamental incompatibility between science and religion. I happen to not believe in God."\|archive-date=30 October 2014\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030060414/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jun/21/kip-thorne-time-travel-scientist-film\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], Christian author and former Brigham Young University (BYU) professor who has written an ex-Mormon memoir<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.unveilingmormonism.com/bio\|title=Ex-mormon Christians United For Jesus {{!}} Sharing Biblical truth in love {{!}} Bio\|website=www.unveilingmormonism.com\|language=en\|access-date=2018-07-21\|archive-date=2018-07-22\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722041158/http://www.unveilingmormonism.com/bio\|url-status=live}}</ref>

			===Politics===
	A mainstream publisher traditionally assumes the risk of publication and production costs, selects the works to be published, edits the author's text, and provides for ] and ], provides the ] and satisfies whatever ] and ] formalities are required. Such a publisher normally pays the author a fee, called an ], for the right to publish the author's work; and further payments, called ], based on the sales of the work. This led to ]'s famous dictum, "''Money should always flow toward the author''" (sometimes called ]).
			* ], 33rd ] of ], ], 2000–2008<ref>Rocky Anderson, "A Call for Compassion", ''Dialogue – A Journal of Mormon Thought'' (Vol. 42 No. 2 Summer 2009), p. v.-vii</ref>
			* ], ], 2017–2023<ref>{{cite news\|url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11789352\|title= The politics of life: The truth about Jacinda Ardern\|last= Knight\|first= Kim\|work= The New Zealand Herald\|date= 29 January 2017\|access-date= 15 August 2017\|archive-date= 19 August 2017\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170819110750/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11789352\|url-status= live}}</ref>
			* ], U.S. Senator from Utah<ref>{{citation \|first= Kenneth \|last= Godfrey \|contribution-url= http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/CANNON_FRANK.html \|contribution= Cannon, Frank J. \|editor-last= Powell \|editor-first= Allan Kent \|year= 1994 \|title= Utah History Encyclopedia \|location= Salt Lake City, Utah \|publisher= ] \|isbn= 0874804256 \|oclc= 30473917 \|access-date= 2013-10-31 \|archive-date= 2013-11-01 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131101222936/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/CANNON_FRANK.html \|url-status= dead }}</ref>
			* ], Utah state senator.<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Horowitz\|first1=Jason\|title=Gay activist using Utah as a political laboratory\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gay-activist-using-utah-as-a-political-laboratory/2012/11/26/02dcfaba-333b-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_story.html\|newspaper=Washington Post\|date=26 November 2012\|access-date=1 July 2020\|archive-date=11 February 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211030643/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gay-activist-using-utah-as-a-political-laboratory/2012/11/26/02dcfaba-333b-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_story.html\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last1=Loftin\|first1=Josh\|title=Gay Utah Democratic boss Jim Dabakis moves beyond sexuality\|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700167468/Gay-Utah-Democratic-boss-Jim-Dabakis-moves-beyond-sexuality.html\|work=Deseret News\|publisher=LDS Church\|date=31 July 2011\|access-date=1 July 2020\|archive-date=1 December 2018\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201085218/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700167468/Gay-Utah-Democratic-boss-Jim-Dabakis-moves-beyond-sexuality.html\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			* ], controversial former ] officer<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.bogritz.com/biography.htm \|title=Biography \|year=2004 \|publisher=Bo Gritz \|access-date=February 27, 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825161517/http://bogritz.com/biography.htm \|archive-date=August 25, 2013 }}</ref>
			* ], political commentator and great-granddaughter of Apostle ]<ref>DEHLIN, JOHN. "661: Abby Huntsman and Carrie Sheffield and their Transitions Out of Mormonism". Mormon Stories. Retrieved June 10, 2018.</ref>
			* ], former Utah governor, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, China, and Russia, and grandson of Apostle ]<ref>{{cite news \|first=Bethany \|last=Rodgers \|date=November 14, 2019 \|title=Jon Huntsman's entry into Utah governor's race sets up a 'showdown for the ages,' says political scientist \|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune \|url=https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/11/14/jon-huntsman-says-hes-not/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417143216/https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/11/14/jon-huntsman-says-hes-not/ \|archive-date=2020-04-17 \|access-date=April 30, 2020}}</ref>
			* ], feminist activist.
			]
			* ], attorney and activist, former director of ].<ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=About_Staff_KateKendell\|title=About NCLR {{ndash}} Kate Kendell, Esq., Executive Director\|work=Nclrights.org\|publisher=National Center for Lesbian Rights\|access-date=19 August 2011\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819122815/http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=About_Staff_KateKendell\|archive-date=19 August 2011}}</ref>
			* ], railroad builder, mine operator, and politician<ref>Malmquist, p. 173; "The New Salt Lake 'Herald'." The Deseret Weekly. June 6, 1891.</ref>
			* ], U.S. Commissioner of Education in the Kennedy administration, provost of the University of Utah, and philosopher<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://signaturebookslibrary.org/sterling-m-mcmurrin/\|title=Matters of Conscience \|\|access-date=2020-05-02\|archive-date=2020-04-22\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422153451/http://signaturebookslibrary.org/sterling-m-mcmurrin/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], twenty-ninth governor of California<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article8038305.html\|title=Op Images: Sharing stories of state's atheist, pacifist governor\|newspaper=sacbee\|access-date=2016-10-18\|archive-date=2016-10-19\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019044311/http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article8038305.html\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://governors.library.ca.gov/29-olson.html\|title=Governors of California - Culbert Olson\|last=Library\|first=California State\|website=governors.library.ca.gov\|access-date=2016-10-18\|archive-date=2021-10-28\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028022750/https://governors.library.ca.gov/29-olson.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy administration and consumer advocate<ref>{{Cite web\|url = https://bycommonconsent.com/2007/09/03/from-the-archives-remembering-esther-peterson/\|title = From the archives: Remembering Esther Peterson\|date = 3 September 2007\|access-date = 12 May 2020\|archive-date = 16 November 2019\|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191116012050/https://bycommonconsent.com/2007/09/03/from-the-archives-remembering-esther-peterson/\|url-status = live}}</ref>
			* ] (born Marvin Richardson), politician known for his ] and for changing his name to reflect his views<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://prolifeidaho.com/about/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622062122/http://prolifeidaho.com/about/\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2012-06-22\|title=About\|date=2012-06-22\|access-date=2018-07-21}}</ref>
			*], three-term Utah governor<ref name="signaturebookslibrary.org"/>
			* ], U.S. Senator from Florida<ref name="Marrapodi">{{cite web\|url=http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/sen-marco-rubios-religious-journey-catholic-to-mormon-to-catholic-to-baptist-and-catholic/?hpt=hp_t3\|title=Sen. Marco Rubio's religious journey: Catholic to Mormon to Catholic to Baptist and Catholic\|last=Marrapodi\|first=Erin\|date=February 23, 2012\|publisher=CNN\|access-date=February 24, 2012\|archive-date=March 1, 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301073459/http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/sen-marco-rubios-religious-journey-catholic-to-mormon-to-catholic-to-baptist-and-catholic/?hpt=hp_t3\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			* ], National Security Adviser to multiple U.S. Presidents <ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.deseret.com/1991/3/11/18909608/when-utahn-talks-bush-listens \| title=When Utahn Talks, Bush Listens \| date=11 March 1991 }}</ref>
			* ], writer and political analyst<ref>{{citation \|first= Carrie \|last= Sheffield \|date= 17 June 2012 \|title= Why Mormons flee their church \|url= http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-06-17/mormon-lds-ex-mormon/55654242/1 \|newspaper= USA Today \|access-date= 2014-06-12 \|archive-date= 2014-05-28 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140528044607/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-06-17/mormon-lds-ex-mormon/55654242/1 \|url-status= live }}</ref>
			* ], U.S. Senator from Arizona<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.standard.net/Lifestyle/2013/01/03/Congress-first-openly-bisexual-member-grew-up-Mormon-graduated-from-BYU.html\|title=Congress' first openly bisexual member grew up Mormon, graduated from BYU\|last=Standard-Examiner\|work=Standard-Examiner\|access-date=2017-06-11\|archive-date=2015-11-22\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122194752/http://www.standard.net/Lifestyle/2013/01/03/Congress-first-openly-bisexual-member-grew-up-Mormon-graduated-from-BYU.html\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/kyrsten-sinema-arizona-senator.html\|date=2018-11-12\|title=Kyrsten Sinema Declared Winner in Arizona Senate Race\|newspaper=The New York Times\|access-date=2020-08-16\|last=Romero\|first=Simon\|archive-date=2020-06-25\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625031708/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/kyrsten-sinema-arizona-senator.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], political candidate; first transgender nominee for a major U.S. political party to the nation's Senate<ref name="Misty">{{cite news\|last1=Greene\|first1=David\|title=Misty Snow Aims To Be The Nation's First Transgender Senator\|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/07/05/484756556/misty-snow-aims-to-be-the-nation-s-first-transgender-senator\|website=npr.org\|publisher=KUER 90.1\|quote=Snow: You know, I was raised LDS myself so I kind of know that culture. Most of my family's LDS. A lot of my friends are LDS. ... I didn't, like, have a lot of support to transition when I was younger, so I ended up doing it kind of more, like, a more - like, over the last few years. ... Yeah. When I was, like (unintelligible) I didn't have support from my mother to transition and, you know, so I put that off for a long time.\|access-date=2020-07-01\|archive-date=2018-01-01\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101082330/https://www.npr.org/2016/07/05/484756556/misty-snow-aims-to-be-the-nation-s-first-transgender-senator\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Nominee">{{cite news\|last1=Canham\|first1=Matt\|title=Utah's Misty Snow makes history as Democrats' transgender Senate nominee\|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4060147&itype=CMSID\|work=]\|date=29 June 2016\|quote=Misty K. Snow is the first transgender nominee from a major party to run for a U.S. Senate seat and she is among the first transgender people to run for Congress.\|access-date=1 July 2020\|archive-date=3 July 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703071224/https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4060147&itype=CMSID\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], founder of the O.C. Tanner Company, philanthropist, and philosophy professor<ref>Conscience and Community: Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion. Robert Alan Goldberg, L. Jackson Newell, Linda King Newell. University of Utah Press, 2018.</ref>
			* ], Arizona Congressman and presidential candidate<ref>Perry, James M., reporter, National Observer, "This Fella from Arizona", in Audubon, November 1981, pp. 64-73, National Audubon Society, as reproduced on the Morris K. Udall website section -- MS 325 -- of the University of Arizona Library Manuscript Collection, retrieved July 23, 2018</ref>
			* ], Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Arizona congressman, environmental activist, attorney, and author<ref>{{cite web \|title=Stewart Udall Sequence I: The Conscience of a Jack Mormon \|date=July 15, 2015 \|url=http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/stewart-udall-sequence-i-the-conscience-of-a-jack-mormon/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108122836/http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/stewart-udall-sequence-i-the-conscience-of-a-jack-mormon/ \|archive-date=2020-11-08 \|access-date=April 30, 2020}}</ref>
			* ], U.S. Senator for New Mexico<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.moderatebutpassionate.com/2011/09/brother-udalls-home-teacher.html\|title=Brother Udall's Home Teacher\|access-date=2020-05-01\|archive-date=2020-08-05\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805101313/http://www.moderatebutpassionate.com/2011/09/brother-udalls-home-teacher.html\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url = https://bycommonconsent.com/2008/09/21/mormons-in-the-next-congress-part-ii/\|title = Mormons in the Next Congress, Part II\|date = 22 September 2008\|access-date = 1 May 2020\|archive-date = 17 February 2020\|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200217164434/https://bycommonconsent.com/2008/09/21/mormons-in-the-next-congress-part-ii/\|url-status = live}}</ref>
			* ], Salt Lake County Mayor<ref name="mormonstories.org">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/jenny-wilson/\|title=950-951: Jenny Wilson - Democratic Candidate for US Senate\|date=28 June 2018 \|access-date=2020-05-25\|archive-date=2020-10-14\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014235346/https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/jenny-wilson/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], former Salt Lake City mayor<ref name="mormonstories.org"/>
			* ], member of the ] from 2006 to 2012<ref>{{cite news \| author=Lee Davidson \| title=Ex-Utah rep Carl Wimmer: God guided me away from Mormonism \| work=Salt Lake Tribune \| date=November 12, 2013 \| url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57052278-78/wimmer-says-church-lds.html.csp \| access-date=2014-07-16 \| archive-date=2016-12-18 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218165030/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57052278-78/wimmer-says-church-lds.html.csp \| url-status=live }}</ref>

			===Miscellaneous===
	A vanity publisher typically fails to provide any useful editing service, and is not selective, printing works by anyone willing to pay a fee. This lack of selectivity is the main reason for the low esteem in which most of the literary world holds vanity publishers. Many vanity publishers charge excessive fees, which are never likely to be recouped from sales of the books involved. Vanity publishers typically do little or no effective marketing. Formerly, they did little or no distribution. Now vanity publishers may offer web-based sales, or make a book available via online booksellers, but they generally do no marketing. Furthermore, many bookstores -- especially large chain stores -- avoid such books.
			* ], blogger, ]<ref>{{cite news\|last=Lieber\|first=Chavie\|title=She was the 'queen of the mommy bloggers.' Then her life fell apart\|url=https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead\|newspaper=]\|date=April 25, 2019\|access-date=July 7, 2019\|archive-date=August 1, 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801115415/https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], daughter of Mormon scholar ] and author of bestseller ''Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith''.
			* Sarissa Hahn, Entrepreneur
			* ], cartoonist and grandson of ] ] ]<ref>{{cite web \| author=Benson, Steve \| title=Hey! You Been Told 'Bout GA Gold? \| date=June 9, 2008 \| work=The Mormon Curtain \| url=http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_stevebenson_section5.html#pub_-504730549 \| access-date=July 29, 2009 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710124248/http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_stevebenson_section5.html#pub_-504730549 \| archive-date=July 10, 2009 \| url-status=dead }}</ref>
			* ], sexuality writer
			* ], American writer of literary and popular fiction<ref>{{cite news \| author=Elaine Jarvik \| title=Ex-LDS author says art, church clash \| work=Deseret News \| date=August 12, 2006 \| url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/645192575/Ex-LDS-author-says-art-church-clash.html?pg=all \| access-date=2014-08-01 \| archive-date=2014-10-22 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022005546/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/645192575/Ex-LDS-author-says-art-church-clash.html?pg=all \| url-status=dead }}</ref>
			*], "Lost Generation" author of ''Children of God'' and the ''Testament of Man''<ref>]</ref>{{Circular reference\|date=May 2020}}
			*] sex educator and online video creator for ] and ].<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://time.com/4258291/30-most-influential-people-on-the-internet-2016/\|title=The 30 most influential people on the internet\|author=Time staff\|date=March 16, 2016\|magazine=]\|access-date=March 16, 2016\|archive-date=March 13, 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190313113830/http://time.com/4258291/30-most-influential-people-on-the-internet-2016/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], American journalist and YouTuber<ref>{{cite AV media\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTMsfOcHiJg\|website=]\|date=June 11, 2021\|title=Why I Left The Mormon Church}}</ref>
			* ], bishop in the ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://webserver.desnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595045756,00.html\|title=Bishop Irish comes full circle\|date=29 February 2004\|access-date=8 November 2016\|archive-date=27 September 2007\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927185059/http://webserver.desnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595045756,00.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], literary editor of '']''<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4964686&ft=1&f=1033\|title=Writer Walter Kirn, on a 'Mission to America'\|newspaper=NPR.org\|access-date=8 November 2016\|archive-date=8 November 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108195500/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4964686&ft=1&f=1033\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], lifelong employee of the ] and author of '']'' (2003)
			* ], author of ''The Backslider''<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://signaturebookslibrary.org/levi-peterson/\|title=Leaving the Fold – 04 \|\|access-date=2020-05-12\|archive-date=2015-04-24\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424012720/http://signaturebookslibrary.org/levi-peterson/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], tenth child of ] ] and ], deputy U.S. marshal<ref name="VW 1986">{{cite journal \|last = Van Wagoner \|first = Richard S. \|author-link = Richard S. Van Wagoner \|title = Sarah Pratt: The Shaping of an Apostate \|journal = ] \|volume = 19 \|number = 2 \|pages = 79, 90–92 \|year = 1986 \|url = http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fdialogue&CISOPTR=19553&REC=12&CISOBOX=Sarah+Pratt+Bennett+Goddards+highly+improbable \|access-date = 2008-07-09 \|archive-date = 2008-12-27 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081227083419/http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fdialogue&CISOPTR=19553&REC=12&CISOBOX=Sarah+Pratt+Bennett+Goddards+highly+improbable \|url-status = live }}</ref>
			* ], critic of ], first wife of Apostle Orson Pratt<ref name="VW 1986"/>
			* ], author of a widely-circulated letter critical of the LDS Church.<ref name=Noyce2016>David Noyce "Author of 'Letter to a CES Director' resigns from Mormon church" The Salt Lake Tribune Published: June 20, 2016 online at:https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2016/06/21/author-of-letter-to-a-ces-director-resigns-from-mormon-church/ {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025946/http://www.sltrib.com/religion/2016/06/21/author-of-letter-to-a-ces-director-resigns-from-mormon-church/ \|date=2020-11-12 }}</ref>
			* ], American science correspondent and podcaster<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6CXvBu8RI\|title=Cara Santa Maria @ Apostacon 2014\|last=Apostacon Team\|date=31 October 2014\|access-date=8 November 2016\|via=YouTube\|archive-date=22 October 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022082505/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6CXvBu8RI\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], science fiction writer<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.shunn.net/bio/\|title=About William Shunn - William Shunn\|access-date=8 November 2016\|archive-date=5 February 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205062933/http://www.shunn.net/bio/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], adopted daughter of Joseph Smith<ref>{{cite journal \| author=Sunny McClellan Morton \| title=The Forgotten Daughter: Julia Murdock Smith \| date=Fall 2002 \| journal=Mormon Historical Studies \| volume=3 \| issue=2 \| pages=49, 54 \| url=http://mormonhistoricsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MHS3.2Fall2002JuliaMurdockSmith.pdf \| access-date=2014-07-29 \| archive-date=2014-10-22 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022004452/http://mormonhistoricsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MHS3.2Fall2002JuliaMurdockSmith.pdf \| url-status=live }}</ref>
			* ], "Lost Generation" novelist of ''A Little Lower Than The Angels''<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.ldsfilm.com/writers/Virginia_Sorensen_Bio.html\|title=Virginia Sorensen\|access-date=2020-05-05\|archive-date=2020-01-23\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123021603/http://www.ldsfilm.com/writers/Virginia_Sorensen_Bio.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ], writers, researchers and critics of the LDS Church<ref>* {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507231521/http://www.utlm.org/testimony/chworldtestimony.htm \|date=2012-05-07 }}</ref>
			* ], feminist<ref name = Sept>The ] were six LDS (Mormons) members who were excommunicated or disfellowshipped in September 1993 for speaking against Church doctrine and leadership. See also ].</ref>

			== Excommunicated members ==
	Among the many types of books that are unpublishable by major commercial presses, family histories often find their way onto vanity presses, since family histories have an extremely limited market--often fewer than ten copies.
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			* ], scholar, writer, editor, and feminist<ref name = Sept/>
	==Business model==
			* ], ], ], best-selling author, and columnist for '']''<ref>{{cite book\|title=Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith\|last=Beck\|first=Martha N\|publisher=Three Rivers Press\|year=2006\|isbn=978-0-307-33599-9\|url-access=registration\|url=https://archive.org/details/leavingsaintshow00beck_0}}</ref>
	Vanity publishers typically offer ]s that strongly favor the publisher, charging high fees while providing low-quality books. They often sell worthless add-on services related to editing and marketing, and are frequently charged with outright ]s.
			* ], serial killer and child molester<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html\|title=Slayer of Five Boys Is Executed in Utah By Injection of Drugs\|last=Ap\|date=11 June 1988\|access-date=8 November 2016\|via=NYTimes.com\|archive-date=9 February 2010\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209030954/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>

			* ], biographer and history professor{{cn\|date=November 2024}}
	A ] is an author who also undertakes the functions of a publisher for his or her own book. The classic "self-publisher" writes, edits, markets and promotes the book themselves, relying on a ] only for actual printing and ]. More recently, companies have offered their services to act as a sort of agent between the writer and a small printing operation. In these cases, the distinction between self-publishing and vanity publishing is less obvious than it once was.
			* ], ] on the ] list<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/Phoenix-local-news-091608-brown-fbi-spotted-utah.833c2886.html \|title=Valley killer on FBI most wanted list spotted in Utah \|publisher=AZfamily \|access-date=September 18, 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920004834/http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/Phoenix-local-news-091608-brown-fbi-spotted-utah.833c2886.html \|archive-date=September 20, 2008 }}</ref>

			* ] convicted serial killer and rapist{{cn\|date=November 2024}}
	The most recent incarnations of vanity presses make use of ] technologies based on modern digital printing. Some have turned to scamming authors in order to keep their machines busy and to help pay for them.{{Fact\|date=February 2007}} {{POV}} During the first years of the 21st century the mainstream printing business went into a slump and the gross oversupply of digital printing machines (like big ] machines with add-on units to bind books) forced traditional printers as well as the new print on demand companies to seek new sources of revenue.
			* ], founder of the ''Mormon Stories'' podcast<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.ksl.com/?sid=33422568&nid=148&title=john-dehlin-excommunicated-from-lds-church\|title=Mormon Stories founder Dehlin's spread of 'false concepts' results in excommunication from LDS Church {{!}} KSL.com\|access-date=2018-07-21\|language=en\|archive-date=2018-07-22\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722011919/https://www.ksl.com/?sid=33422568&nid=148&title=john-dehlin-excommunicated-from-lds-church\|url-status=live}}</ref>

			* ], former LDS ]<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865686362/LDS-Church-leaders-release-excommunicate-Elder-James-J-Hamula.html\|title=LDS Church leaders release, excommunicate Elder James J. Hamula\|last=Walch\|first=Tad\|date=2017-08-08\|work=DeseretNews.com\|access-date=2018-07-21\|language=en\|archive-date=2018-07-22\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722015859/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865686362/LDS-Church-leaders-release-excommunicate-Elder-James-J-Hamula.html\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
	Vanity presses earn their money, not from sales of books to readers like other publishers, but from sales of books to the authors. The author receives the shipment of books and may attempt to resell them through whatever channels are available. In some cases, the copies are not even bound.
			* Natasha Helfer, sex therapist<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.kuer.org/arts-culture-religion/2021-04-28/natasha-helfer-has-been-excommunicated-from-the-church-heres-what-she-has-to-say-now\|title=Natasha Helfer Has Been 'Excommunicated' From The Church — Here's What She Has To Say Now\|last=Peery\|first=Lexi\|date=2021-04-28\|work=kuer.org\|access-date=2023-03-23\|language=en\|archive-date=2021-08-02\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802210345/https://www.kuer.org/arts-culture-religion/2021-04-28/natasha-helfer-has-been-excommunicated-from-the-church-heres-what-she-has-to-say-now\|url-status=live}}</ref>

			* ], double murderer and an expert forger; "considered by forensic experts to be the best forger yet caught"<ref>{{citation \|first= Linda \|last= Sillitoe \|author-link= Linda Sillitoe \|contribution= Hofmann, Mark \|contribution-url= http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/h/HOFMANN_MARK.html \|editor-last= Powell \|editor-first= Allan Kent \|year= 1994 \|title= Utah History Encyclopedia \|location= Salt Lake City, Utah \|publisher= ] \|isbn= 0874804256 \|oclc= 30473917 \|access-date= 2013-10-31 \|archive-date= 2017-01-13 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170113125834/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/h/HOFMANN_MARK.html \|url-status= live }}</ref>
	==Alternatives to vanity publishing==
			* ], opponent of the ];<ref>{{cite book\|first=Barbara\|last=Beuys\|title=Vergeßt uns nicht: Menschen im Widerstand, 1933–1945\| publisher=Rowohlt Verlag\|location=Berlin\|year=1987\|isbn=3-498-00511-1\|p=488\|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Vergesst_uns_nicht/URofAAAAMAAJ?hl=en \|via=]\|language=German \|trans-title=Don't Forget Us: People in the Resistance, 1933-1945}}</ref> posthumously reinstated by the LDS Church in 1946<ref>{{cite book\|first=Richard \|last=Lloyd Dewey\|title=Hübener vs Hitler\|publisher=Academic Research Foundation\|location=Provo, Utah\|date=2003\|isbn =9780929753133\|pp=174–175\|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hubener_Vs_Hitler/29U6AAAACAAJ?hl=en\|url-access=limited}}</ref>
	Writers considering ] often also consider directly hiring a ]. According to self-publisher and ] ], vanity presses charge higher premiums and create a risk that an author who has published with a vanity press will have more difficulty working with a respectable publisher in the future.
			* ], feminist and a ] presidential nominee<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/UU_EAD,1830\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707232004/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/UU_EAD,1830\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=7 July 2012\|title=CONTENTdm Title\|access-date=8 November 2016}}</ref>

			* ], lawyer and feminist, advocate of woman holding the priesthood<ref>{{citation \|first= Kristen \|last= Moulton \|url= http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58104587-78/church-kelly-women-ordain.html.csp \|title= Kelly laments her 'painful' excommunication from Mormon church \|newspaper= ] \|date= June 23, 2014 \|access-date= June 25, 2014 \|archive-date= June 26, 2014 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140626031952/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58104587-78/church-kelly-women-ordain.html.csp \|url-status= live }}</ref>
	Some vanity presses using ] technology act as printers as well as sellers of support services for authors interested in self-publishing. Reputable firms of this type are typically marked by clear contract terms, lack of excessive fees, retail prices comparable to those from commercial printers, lack of pressure to purchase "extra" services, contracts which do not claim exclusive rights to the work being published (though one would be hard pressed to find a legitimate publisher willing to put out a competing edition, making non-exclusivity meaningless), and honest indications of what services they will and won't provide, and what results the author may reasonably expect. However, the distinction between the worst of these firms and vanity presses is essentially trivial, though a source of great confusion as the low fees have attracted tens of thousands of authors who wish to avoid the stigma of vanity publishing while doing just that.
			* ], independent Mormon fundamentalist author<ref>{{cite news \| author=Sara Israelsen \| title=Suit blames firing on religion \| work=] \| date=June 22, 2006 \| url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/640188930/Suit-blames-firing-on-religion.html?pg=all \| access-date=2014-07-17 \| archive-date=2014-08-12 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812062048/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/640188930/Suit-blames-firing-on-religion.html?pg=all \| url-status=dead }}</ref>

			* ], wrote an ] memoir.<ref name=sal>{{cite web \|title=Secret grief \|author=Sterling, Terry Greene \|date=October 27, 2000 \|url=http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/10/27/laake/index.html?CP=YAH&DN=110 \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120701131819/http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/10/27/laake/index.html?CP=YAH&DN=110 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=July 1, 2012 \|work=] \|access-date=July 1, 2010 }}</ref>
	==Libraries==
			* ], former LDS general authority, convicted child molester<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/03/us/mormons-oust-first-indian-in-the-hierarchy.html\|title=Mormons Oust First Indian in the Hierarchy\|last=AP\|work=] \|date=3 September 1989 \|access-date=2018-07-21\|language=en\|archive-date=2019-06-05\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605085720/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/03/us/mormons-oust-first-indian-in-the-hierarchy.html\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50019546&itype=CMSID\|title=- The Salt Lake Tribune\|work=The Salt Lake Tribune\|access-date=2018-07-21\|language=en-US\|archive-date=2018-07-22\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722011516/http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50019546&itype=CMSID\|url-status=live}}</ref>
	The typical ] avoids stocking self-published books, since most vanity publications have not gone through selection, revision, copyediting and other critical steps which are normal for commercial for-profit ]s. Most libraries will not accept such vanity publications, even when they are offered free of charge, since even then there are costs involved: all library books have to be described in a ], and require classification stickers and other elements. The total cost of cataloguing and general processing in 2002 was about fifty dollars per book in the ] regardless of the size or original cost of the book. Then, the cost of keeping the book on the shelves has to be added, each year. In any case, it is usual for books to be chosen for a library by the application of a ] policy designed to meet the needs of a particular user community, and vanity publications only rarely meet those needs.
			* ], writer and talk radio host, expelled for "bad conduct" prior to 2001, has since rejoined<ref name=lonsberryexcom>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=725&go=4\|title=Bob lonsberry dot com\|access-date=2019-07-22\|archive-date=2018-09-24\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924110348/http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=725&go=4\|url-status=live}}</ref>

			* ], British writer and charity co-founder<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046l690\|title=Roz Chalmers, Merlin Holland, David Charles Manners, David Waterman, Midweek - BBC Radio 4\|access-date=8 November 2016\|archive-date=22 October 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022051902/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046l690\|url-status=live}}</ref>
	On the rare occasions when libraries accept the product of a vanity press, they usually require the donor to sign a form giving to the library the right to do what it pleases with the item. The item is sometimes then disposed of in a yearly book sale or by some other process for the distribution of unwanted items. {{Fact\|date=February 2007}}
			* ], ] recipient and gay ] veteran<ref name=Dynamics>{{cite book\|last1=Quinn\|first1=D. Michael\|author-link=D. Michael Quinn\|title=Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example\|date=1996\|publisher=]\|via=]\|isbn=978-0252022050\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXVj398JvnsC\|page=442}}</ref><ref name=Estes2007 >{{cite book \| last=Estes \| first=Steve \| year=2007 \| title=Ask & Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out \| publisher=] \| isbn=9780807831151 \| pages=185–187 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSD0viQFs_cC&q=Matlovich&pg=PA185\|via=]}}</ref>

			* ], hijacker of a United Airliner passenger jet for ransom in 1972<ref>{{citation \|first= Musika \|last= Farnsworth \|date= April 2011 \|title= Skyjacker—the Richard McCoy Jr. Story – Part 2 \|url= http://parachutistonline.com/feature/skyjacker%E2%80%94-richard-mccoy-jr-story-part-2 \|journal= Parachutist \|publisher= ] \|volume= 52 \|number= 4 \|access-date= 2014-06-25 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141022004514/http://parachutistonline.com/feature/skyjacker%E2%80%94-richard-mccoy-jr-story-part-2 \|archive-date= 2014-10-22 \|url-status= dead }}</ref>
	Exceptions include local histories, which are of specialized interest enough to be uninteresting to commercial publishers but which are sought out by libraries.
			* ], LDS Historian{{cn\|date=November 2024}}

			* ], essayist and science fiction editor, lapsed at time of excommunication<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://nielsenhayden.com/GodandI.html\|title=God and I\|first=Teresa\|last=Nielsen Hayden\|access-date=8 November 2016\|archive-date=4 January 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104090636/http://nielsenhayden.com/GodandI.html\|url-status=live}} First published in ''Telos'' 3, 1980.</ref>
	Many libraries and reviewers do not clearly distinguish between vanity publications and self-publications, and are apt to decline or resist any book that does not come from a commercial press. Indeed in some cases any book produced using POD technology encounters such resistance, even if it is from a small commercial publisher.
			* ], American historian, biographer, and genealogist<ref name=About>{{Cite journal \|date=2006 \|title=About the Authors of this Volume \|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43200255 \|journal=] \|volume=26 \|pages=340–343 \|jstor=43200255 \|issn=0739-7852 \|via=]}}</ref>

			* ], first son of Apostle Orson Pratt<ref name="VW 1986"/>
	==History==
			* ], LDS historian<ref name = Sept/>
	It should be noted that in the nineteenth and early twentieth century it was common for legitimate authors, if they could afford to, to pay the costs of publishing their books. Such writers could expect more control of their work, greater profits, or both. Self-publishing was not judged negatively as it has been more recently. Among the authors taking this route to publication was ], who paid the expenses of publishing ] and most of his subsequent work. Such authors as ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ] also resorted to self-publication for some or all of their works.
			* ], Utah lawyer and author of books on LDS doctrine<ref>{{cite news \| last=Fletcher Stack \|first=Peggy\|author-link=Peggy Fletcher Stack \| title=Controversial Mormon writer gets the word: He's out of the church \| newspaper=] \| date=September 12, 2013 \| url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsfaithblog/56861798-180/church-snuffer-book-lds.html.csp \| access-date=2014-07-17 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702212042/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsfaithblog/56861798-180/church-snuffer-book-lds.html.csp \| archive-date=2014-07-02 \| url-status=dead }}</ref>

			* ], molecular biologist<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Mormons-excommunicate-Australian-author/2005/08/05/1123125884160.html \|newspaper=]\|location=Melbourne\|date=5 August 2005\|title=Mormons excommunicate Australian author}}</ref>
	==Vanity presses in fiction==
			* ], attorney and author<ref name = Sept/>
	]'s novel '']''
			* ], LDS Historian{{cn\|date=November 2024}}
	discusses the inside workings of a vanity press operated as a side operation of a more orthodox publisher, to pump out otherwise unpublishable personal musings on the ]. The 'main' publisher is run by a Signor Garamond, named for a ], while the vanity press is called 'Manutius', the name of ] famous sixteenth century printer. Elaine Viets's novel ''Murder Between the Covers'' involves a self-published author attempting to set up a bookstore signing.
			* James Walker, president of ] (watchman.org){{cn\|date=November 2024}}
	The hero of ]'s novel '']'' is commissioned over a long period to write a book by an otherwise vanity publisher. The company is satirized at some length. One of the substories of ]'s 2004 novel ] is about Timothy Cavendish, a vanity press publisher.
			* ], secretary to ] and compiler of the '']''<ref>{{cite book \| author=Ronald G. Watt \| chapter=Watt, George D. \|editor=Arnold K. Garr \|editor2=Donald Q. Cannon \|editor3=Richard O. Cowan \| title=Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History \| year=2000 \| location=Salt Lake City, Utah \| publisher=]}}</ref>

			* ], ex-wife of ]<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/portraitandbiog01pubgoog\|page=\|quote=ann eliza young.\|title=Portrait and Biographical Record of Northern Michigan: Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies of All the Presidents of the United States\|date=1 January 1895\|publisher=Record Publishing Company\|access-date=8 November 2016\|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
	==Some vanity presses==
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This is a list of well-known Mormon dissidents or other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who have either been excommunicated or have resigned from the church – as well as of individuals no longer self-identifying as LDS and those inactive individuals who are on record as not believing and/or not participating in the church. While the church doesn't regularly provide information about excommunication or resignation, those listed here have made such information public. In a very few cases, the list below may include former adherents of other Latter Day Saint movement denominations who have ceased identifying as members of the Church, as well.

See: List of Latter-day Saints for current members of the LDS Church.

Former and inactive members

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Artists, actors, and entertainment figures

Kevin Abstract, rapper, singer-songwriter, director, and founding member of Brockhampton
Amy Adams, actress known for roles in Enchanted, Doubt, The Fighter

Christina Aguilera is a singer who was raised in an LDS home but Aguilera has not self-identified as Mormon.
David Archuleta, American pop singer
Hal Ashby, director of New Hollywood films such as Shampoo and Being There
Tal Bachman, son of Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and Canadian musician known for his 1999 hit song, "She's So High"
Randy Bachman, Canadian musician and founder of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Belladonna, American pornographic actress
Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter and producer, 2009 Oscar for Best Screenplay for Milk
Gutzon Borglum, sculptor most noted for the heads of U.S. presidents on Mount Rushmore
Wilford Brimley, actor known for Cocoon, The Firm, Quaker Oats commercials, and Liberty Medical "diabeetus" meme
Win Butler, frontman for the band Arcade Fire
Ed Catmull, animation pioneer and president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation
Johnny Cunningham, brother of Phil, and member of Silly Wizard
Phil Cunningham, Scottish folk musician, member of Silly Wizard
Cytherea, American pornographic actress.
Brian Keith Dalton, the creator, producer and main character of Mr Deity. He coined the term "Formon" for "former Mormon" in 1996.
Eliza Dushku, actress known for roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tru Calling, Dollhouse
Richard Dutcher, independent filmmaker and actor known for films God's Army, God's Army 2: States of Grace, Brigham City
Aaron Eckhart, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor known for roles in Thank You for Smoking, The Dark Knight, Erin Brockovich
Mindy Gledhill, singer songwriter
Tyler Glenn, lead singer for the American rock band Neon Trees
Ryan Gosling, Academy Award-nominated actor known for roles in Half Nelson, The Notebook, Drive
Leigh Harline, Hollywood composer, known most notably for "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Annette Haven, American former pornographic actress
Katherine Heigl, American actress
Jessica Holmes, Canadian comedian
Julianne Hough, dancer, actress, singer, songwriter
Neil LaBute, playwright
Bert McCracken, of the rock band The Used
David Petruschin is a drag queen with the stage name "Raven" and was raised Mormon.
Sue-Ann Post, Australian comedian
Kevin Rahm, actor known for his television roles as Kyle McCarty on Judging Amy, Lee McDermott on Desperate Housewives, and Ted Chaough on Mad Men
Dan Reynolds (singer), singer for rock band Imagine Dragons
Wayne Sermon, guitarist for rock band Imagine Dragons
Will Swenson, actor and singer
Brendon Urie, of rock band Panic! at the Disco
Janet Varney, American actress and podcaster
Paul Walker, actor known for role in The Fast and the Furious film series
Alex Winters, BBC children's TV presenter
La Monte Young, composer and musician.
Mahonri Young, sculptor and grandson of Brigham Young
Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter

Business figures

Bruce Bastian, businessman and philanthropist, co-created WordPerfect software.
Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese
George S. Eccles, CEO of First Security Bank and philanthropist
Marriner Eccles, CEO of First Security Bank and Chairman of the Federal Reserve System
Jim Jannard, sunglasses designer and founder of Oakley, Inc.
Bryan Johnson (entrepreneur), Founder of Braintree, Venmo and Kernel
Wilson McCarthy, head of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad

Sports figures

Merlin Olsen, NFL star turned TV star
Mark Schultz (wrestler), Olympic Wrestling Champion.
Benji Schwimmer, the winner of the 2006 So You Think You Can Dance show.

Former Mormon Misty Snow ran as the first transgender person nominated by a major party for the U.S. Senate.

Scholars

Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic and professor of English
Paul D. Boyer, biochemist and Nobel Laureate
William Jasper Kerr, president of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) from 1907 to 1932
Spencer L. Kimball, dean of the University of Utah law school, son of Mormon prophet Spencer W. Kimball
Kip Thorne, theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate
Lynn Wilder, Christian author and former Brigham Young University (BYU) professor who has written an ex-Mormon memoir

Politics

Rocky Anderson, 33rd mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000–2008
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister New Zealand, 2017–2023
Frank J. Cannon, U.S. Senator from Utah
Jim Dabakis, Utah state senator.
James "Bo" Gritz, controversial former United States Army Special Forces officer
Abby Huntsman, political commentator and great-granddaughter of Apostle David B. Haight
Jon Huntsman Jr., former Utah governor, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, China, and Russia, and grandson of Apostle David B. Haight
Sonia Johnson, feminist activist.

National Center for Lesbian Rights executive director Kate Kendell

Kate Kendell, attorney and activist, former director of National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Alfred W. McCune, railroad builder, mine operator, and politician
Sterling McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education in the Kennedy administration, provost of the University of Utah, and philosopher
Culbert Olson, twenty-ninth governor of California
Esther Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy administration and consumer advocate
Pro-Life (born Marvin Richardson), politician known for his opposition to abortion and for changing his name to reflect his views
Calvin Rampton, three-term Utah governor
Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida
Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to multiple U.S. Presidents
Carrie Sheffield, writer and political analyst
Kyrsten Sinema, U.S. Senator from Arizona
Misty Snow, political candidate; first transgender nominee for a major U.S. political party to the nation's Senate
Obert C. Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner Company, philanthropist, and philosophy professor
Morris Udall, Arizona Congressman and presidential candidate
Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Arizona congressman, environmental activist, attorney, and author
Tom Udall, U.S. Senator for New Mexico
Jenny Wilson (politician), Salt Lake County Mayor
Ted Wilson (mayor), former Salt Lake City mayor
Carl Wimmer, member of the Utah House of Representatives from 2006 to 2012

Miscellaneous

Heather Armstrong, blogger, dooce.com
Martha Nibley Beck, daughter of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley and author of bestseller Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith.
Sarissa Hahn, Entrepreneur
Steve Benson, cartoonist and grandson of LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson
Patrick Califia, sexuality writer
Brian Evenson, American writer of literary and popular fiction
Vardis Fisher, "Lost Generation" author of Children of God and the Testament of Man
Laci Green sex educator and online video creator for Seeker and MTV.
Johnny Harris, American journalist and YouTuber
Carolyn Tanner Irish, bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Walter Kirn, literary editor of GQ
Grant H. Palmer, lifelong employee of the Church Educational System and author of An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (2003)
Levi Peterson, author of The Backslider
Arthur Pratt, tenth child of LDS Apostle Orson Pratt and Sarah Pratt, deputy U.S. marshal
Sarah M. Pratt, critic of plural marriage, first wife of Apostle Orson Pratt
Jeremy Runnells, author of a widely-circulated letter critical of the LDS Church.
Cara Santa Maria, American science correspondent and podcaster
William Shunn, science fiction writer
Julia Murdock Smith, adopted daughter of Joseph Smith
Virginia Sorensen, "Lost Generation" novelist of A Little Lower Than The Angels
Jerald and Sandra Tanner, writers, researchers and critics of the LDS Church
Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, feminist

Excommunicated members