Adventures in self-publishing

With all that's going on in the publishing industry these days, self-publishing has emerged as far more than a last-resort option. The stigma of "vanity presses" is giving way to a myriad of alternatives for writers who either haven't yet found their places in the traditional publishing world — or those who choose to forgo traditional presses altogether, for many different reasons.

Take Steve Almond, for example, who is chronicling his leap into self-publishing in a series in Poets&Writers...