"It's no secret that if you publish yourself, you can make more than a 15percentt royalty," said David Rosenthal, publisher of Simon & Schuster trade books, a division of Viacom.
No matter who you are, how famous or minor your presence online, once you publish yourself online, you are open to critique.
To do that, look to online vacation-rental listings you can publish yourself, which can give you a wide audience with little effort.
In many ways this is undeniably a great thing: freedom of expression, a limitless potential audience, and a better financial deal if you publish directly yourself – through Amazon's Kindle store, for example – and miss out the publisher.
While there is clearly a great deal of control in what you publish about yourself and your public persona do you ever wish you were J.D. Salinger and could just hide and write and not deal with the consequences of sharing?
"Employers will search for your name, and results will populate based on what you have published about yourself or what other people have published about you," he said.
You are supposed to keep your research to yourself until you publish.
If you've published your novel yourself but you're not seeing the sales numbers you'd hoped to, write better.
If you are publishing the comic yourself, feel free to explore as many different framing options as you like.
