Most people want to publish a book but they often only consider self-publishing as a last resort.
Should they?
For some writers, they had long since planned to self-publish, but for others it is because they have been told no far too often. Being told no is a hard thing to accept. I moon lighted as a literary agent’s “checker.” This was really just a thing to tell people no without them bothering this agent.
I think I took this lesson from that experience: One, you can never spend too much time editing, and two see number one!
Really, if you are going to self-publish, you still need it to be professional.
This is the hardest thing to understand.
If you are self-publishing because you have been told no, you need to go back and fix it up, a first draft is actually just not even a draft, it is mind splat. A second draft is okay, but I’ve also learned that a fourth draft is good. it takes time and energy to build your work to the point where, why you self-publish is because it is something that you enjoy…
Not because you were told no once too many time.
