What Can You Really Offer?

I received yet another solicitation from a small press about my Demonolatry titles today. It seems small publishers see my books and immediately think cash cow. They also seem to think that they can use the "you shouldn't have to pay to have your book published" and the promise of "legitimacy" as an author as some sort of author bait.

Ask any of my readers and I have no doubt the majority of them (sans other writers who are still brainwashed by the fantasy that writers aren't legitimate...