Self-Pub: A New Frontier (for me, at least)

As someone who has taught Creative Writing at university level for many years, I'm used to being asked about self-publishing: how to do it, why to do it, how it works, if it's worth it, etc. But my answers were informed by the experiences of those writers I knew who had self-pubbed, and by the opinions that many of us writers had developed over the years of trying to break through traditional publishing *and* thinking of 'trad-pub' as the pinnacle. As a lecturer in publishing, I now have a different reason to think about the practice. And so, as an experiment and learning experience, I have decided to self-publish a pair of short stories via Amazon KDP. Then I can explain the steps to both sets of students form a practitioner's perspective.

I have the stories and am working on finalizing the text, proofreading, etc. The next step is to get a cover designed, which is going to be tricky because one story is SF (post-apocalyptic) and the other is dark fantasy (witchcraft and family feuds). One cover has to work for both! This is going to be interesting. 

So, as I embark on a new adventure, I invite you to follow along.