Self-Publishing–Do I HAVE to?

After many years of writing and rewriting a novel that takes place on the home front during WWII, I found an agent in New York to represent my book. She shopped it around for two years and after a couple of near misses, I decided I was done hoping for a major publisher. But I was sure there’s an audience for this book.

I started buying and reading self-published books and the more I learned about the process of becoming a publisher oneself, I knew I didn’t want to do that. Then I looked at a...