That’s why it was so easy for me to completely dismiss self-publishing as an absolute last resort: I didn’t really know that many self-published authors.īut then I started interviewing self-published authors and saw the reasons why they self-published. It’s hard to hate something if you put a face to it.
In a psychology class I took I learned that one of the most effective ways to end prejudice towards certain groups is to expose the prejudiced person to that group more frequently. I actually spoke to a wide variety of self-published authors. Some of them are too unique and have unconventional stories, others are books that don’t conveniently fit into one category and thus could never be marketed easily.Īnd you know what? It would have been a terrible shame not to read any of these simply because I lumped all self-published authors together.Ģ. The other part is that I realized no publisher would have even considered publishing these. Part of what helped me come to this stage of acceptance was reading awesome, well proofread and well-written books like these. Prophecy of the Most Beautiful by Diantha Jones, The re Comes a Prophet by David Litwack and Starlet’s Web by Carla J. In the past year I’ve started reading a lot more self-published books and I found some great ones.
I just didn’t have the experience necessary to see the good side. That’s why I didn’t exactly support, but didn’t exactly dismiss the possibility of self-publishing having a good side. From reading books with tons of mistakes to watching self-published authors explode at reviewers who gave them bad reviews, you could say I had only seen the ugly side of self-publishing. I read some amazing self-published books.īefore I wrote my piece I had very few good experiences with self-publishing in general. So here’s sort of how I changed my mind:ġ. Let me say it wasn’t easy and it’s certainly not easy to admit on your public blog that you screwed up. You’ll probably be wondering how I came to my new perspective on self-publishing. I’m sorry that I jumped to conclusions and pretty much lumped all self-published authors together. I’m sorry for judging self-published writers based on my very limited experience reading self-published books and a few big media incidents.
I’m sorry for judging self-published writers before I really knew what self-publishing involved. While I didn’t exactly say self-publishing was a terrible thing that was ruining literature, my feelings about it were generally negative. Remember one of my first articles I ever did? It was exactly one year ago to this day and it was called Self-Publishing: A Reviewer’s Perspective.
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