Self-Pub: A New Frontier (for me, at least)

As someone who has taught Creative Writing at university level for many years, I'm used to being asked about self-publishing: how to do it, why to do it, how it works, if it's worth it, etc. But my answers were informed by the experiences of those writers I knew who had self-pubbed, and by the opinions that many of us writers had developed over the years of trying to break through traditional publishing *and* thinking of 'trad-pub' as the pinnacle. As a lecturer in publishing, I now have a di...