MYTH: Self-Published Authors Only Self-Publish After a Slew of Rejections

No Dogs Allowed by Jon McGovern (Creative Commons)

Many believe that all self-published authors only self-published because they were rejected over and over again by agents and publishers from the traditional world.

I can’t really speak for others, but I know this to be myth because I haven’t received a single rejection from an agent or a publisher since querying my first work. And I mean the very first story I wrote. And I deserved every rejection I received with that story. My husband still m...