So obviously (I say obviously because you would have already been informed by a post full of many exclamations) I have had little success in the publishing game. I have received seven rejection letters from agents I've queried and complete silence from the rest. It hasn't exactly been the highlight of my summer.
Through pretty much the entirety of my writing process, people have been suggesting self publishing. I was always hesitant. I completely believed in the "vanity publishing" stereotype. Self publishing was for the writers who would rather blame greedy publishers than admit their own shortcomings. I was also afraid of pushing my writing out into the ibis of the word wide web, without an editor or an agent to provide a guiding light.
But the article, "Self Publishing: Here to Stay?" by the Huffington Post changed my mind. Self publishing is not vain, it's indie. It offers writers creative freedom from commercialism. Some self-published books do go on to be very successful, but I have learned to think of my writing in a different way. What I want out of publishing is to give as many people as possible access to my writing and the indie press may be the way to do it.
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