It’s time for another Insecure Writers Support Group (IWSG) post! IWSG is a monthly blog hop that occurs every first Wednesday of the month where we writers talk about the challenges in writing and how to resolve them. A couple weeks ago, I was talking to author Derek Muk at Sinister Creature Con, a horror convention in Sacramento California. I told him I was a self-published author. He asked me if I thought self-publishing still gets looked down on compared to traditional publishing. I thought for a moment. Then I said that it does but less so than when it first came onto the internet scene in the 1990s . In a way, like many of the authors themselves who have gone that route, self-publishing is making its break! I told Muk that self-published books are still not taken seriously by the majority of critics and avid readers since most of the works on the New York Times b est s ellers’ l ist come from traditional publishers such as Random House and DAW. But self-p...
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