The Art of Self-Publishing: An Expert's Perspective

So let's start off with your piece of Uncommon Sense, Leanne.

So I thought

this would be pertinent to speak to the publishing world.

I know everyone, Gordon had said, talk about whatever you want.

But I wanted to really touch on The self-publishing aspect and how for a really long time self-publishing was considered vanity publishing and how people only would self-publish if they couldn't get a traditional deal and it was just such unrecognized, unquality work and really...

Emphasize that now with the changing landscape, not only can you produce a quality self-published book, but you can do really well.

You can win awards and have lots of the same recognition as you would if you were too traditionally published.

So do you think the word self-publishing maybe has a bit of, I'd call it maybe like a, it's like almost like a dirty word, but it's completely not.

It's a bit misunderstood.

Yeah, there used to be a really big stigma around self-publishing.

And even just, I would say the last 10 years, but even just the last five years, That stigma is going away.

The word vanity is no longer really associated in the landscape when you're talking about self-publishing because there are so many freelancers and so many service providers and such quality industry professionals out there that can help you produce a book that is on all the same levels, the same as a traditionally published book.