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Vanity Or Sanity? Self-publishing In The Modern Age

Posted at 8:32AM Monday 25 Feb 2013

The owner of my local bookshop recently tweeted, "If our cat said he had written a book, I wouldn't be that surprised. Every other fucker I know has." I couldn't have put it more acerbically myself. Although that doesn't make me any happier to have to announce that I am one of those fuckers. When other writers ask me why I went the self-publishing route there's usually a tentative hopefulness in the query; can that work now? Are you making any money? Did you jump or were you pushed? Unfortunately I have to say I was pushed; there's no money yet - but it's still early days.

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