The current state of publishing fiction…

After thirty-plus books, some traditionally published but most self-published, I’ve experienced a major part of fiction publishing’s evolution—painful at times but always an adventure. After suffering initially with hundreds of rejections from literary agents, the majority being the sycophants of the major publishing conglomerates (the worst of traditional publishing now called the Big Five), the very people who are basically manuscript filters for acquisition editors so the latter don’t have to...