O is for Opportunity for Authors (or the Upside of Self-Publishing)

There have been so many shifts in publishing in the last few years. In fact, take a week off of social media and when you return you’ll find that you’ve missed the latest “big publishing news.”

As an aspiring author, at first I was disconcerted by all of the news, the doomsday predictions. Publishing has always been a tough business. The rapid changes and negative outlooks quickly made it feel like getting published was an impossible dream. But then something awesome happened. Self-publishing...