Oh and by the way, addressing the EIR (Elephant in the Room, aka Jeff Bezos, Amazon and company), when editors,
agents and
publishers I've worked with for years forgot to call
or email me back on so many occasions, one email, eight hours later,
garnered a call from the Jeff Bezos executive team to see how they might expedite my self - published cookbook when I encountered a snag.
Even though there is no longer a stigma associated with being a self - published author (at least for most genres), once you self - publish a book, it will be exceedingly difficult to
garner interest for that book from an
agent or traditional
publisher.