Should You Self-Publish and the Future of Writing

Many authors consider the option of self publishing on numerous online platforms rather than spending months or even years to see their words in print via the traditional query and slush methods. Some traditionalists mightimmediately defend the process of sending copy after copy of one’s manuscript (and waiting months on end to find they’d have better spent their efforts elsewhere). “A rite of passage,” they’d call it, to separate the chaff from the grain, as it were. The idea has merits, for...