on self-publishing

Mitch, a lot of people turn to self-publishing in response to the vast silence from New York.  That doesn't mean you won't be famous some day, so you'd better brace yourself for eventually becoming rich, or providing riches for future obscure relatives.

Stephen Crane self-published his first novel, which he then had to burn in his wood stove one copy at a time, to stay warm in the winter of 1894.

(Worth $8500 now.)

In another couple of years he was famous, for the rest of his short life.  Don’t emulate him!  Be like me and publish your stuff in pulp sf magazines.  Nor doubt that fame and fortune lie beyond the bourne!

Joe