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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