Genevieve Dewey

Congratulations!  You’ve decided to self-publish.  Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of the fastest-growing segment of the publishing industry.

Fastest-growing, eh?

Yep.  Seems like you can’t turn around these days without someone sprinting off to publish the manuscript they’ve been working on for years.  Or months.  Or a couple of weeks.  But does that mean that if you self-publish the rest of the literary world is going to “dial you down to dumbass”, as my Dad likes to say?  Does that mean you’ve forever separated yourself from the realm of the serious author?  Not anymore it doesn’t.  But it does mean that you get to navigate a minefield of potential mistakes and problems, and you get to do it all by yourself.

Now, I consider myself to be a successful self-published author.  I’ve got three books out and one coming out the first weekend of November.  And I’ve learned…