An excellent article on self publishing, peoples reactions to a self published book and the expectations for a self published author at slushpile.net - which, although posted over two years ago - still garners comments!
This is great to see that an interesting and informative post can still hang around in bookmarks and search engine queries enough to rank well. The post itself is fun - but as with most of these posts from media-related sites - it’s the commenter’s that reveal insight into the reasons why people do (or do not) dislike self publishers.
An interesting comment from Padraig O Maeloid where he mentions the annoyance of an over bearing self published author at one of his cons - and her badgering of attendees as they neared the book tables to buy her book. A pity that his experience has made him deeply wary of self published and POD authors. But there are some terrible lengths to which independent authors will go to to get their book in front of the noses of the general, or specific, public.
Attending a genre convention would be valuable. But I don’t believe Indy Authors should focus on selling their book one person at a time. It’s essentially cold calling - and that’s depressing enough. Rather, a buzz about the general concept of the book can go so much further than trying to offload individual copies.
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