Five Reasons to Self-Publish | author’s note

I was against self-publishing for quite some time. It just wasn’t for me, no way, nohow, mainly because of the following two stumbling blocks:

I felt bombarded with stories (from NPR, agency sites, advice from other authors) about how the publishing industry looks down on self-publishing. It wasn’t the right way to do it. Self-publishing was a short cut, and they felt it polluted the industry without any standards or gatekeepers. (Maybe it does—but then again, there’s a whole lot of traditiona...