Just Because One Can, Doesn’t Always Mean One Should

And by that, of course, I mean go into business for oneself. It’s great to say, “I have an idea and some start-up money – I’m going to start my own publishing house!”, but there are some things that a lot of start-up small presses get wrong, and from my observations – it’s a lot of the SAME things from publisher to publisher. It’s also the reason some small presses can’t keep authors and end up on “Beware” lists across the web.

I consider myself a bit of an expert on this subject for several r...