A Goodreads user asked Monique S.:

How can I publish my stories? I am trying to write a novel and want to self-publish or get a publisher.

Monique S. Hi Anika,

my experience with main stream publishers is that without a well known literary agent you get nowhere. In the same instance I have realised, after at least half a hundred emails to genre specific publishers, that the competition is vast and that none of my books, that now sell well enough on Amazon, was accepted.

That is the reason for so called Indie-authors, Indie standing for independent i.e. self publishing, for example KDP (kindle direct publishing). I tried smashwords, Kobo and Lulu but neither of those three had any distribution as vast as Amazon. Nor do they have the customer base.

So, contrary to what I originally believed, I can really recommend self publishing through KDP.

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