Why self-publishing is the hardest AND most rewarding thing ever

I made the decision to self-publish my book after several months of frustration with querying agents. Agent after agent either rejected me – which I was less upset by, because after all, it’s their call – or completely ignored me. I posted something about this on Twitter, hoping that it wasn’t just me, and one of the comments I got was “Why don’t you try self-publishing?”

I have to say that I hadn’t even considered it before. I had heard of it, and indeed one of my teachers used it to publish a...