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Steve, you'll probably think I'm kicking you while you're down, but...
Have you tried to sell to what existing magazines that are left? The object is to build presence. They are a path. P-books are a path.
Every cover in a bookstore is an advertisement to those walking past. Magazines bundle your story to a broader set of readers than your other forms of advertising.
And the editors are telling you whether or not they think they can sell your product. It's a disinterested, relatively objective opinion, because if they publish things that people don't like, they are out of business.
Once you have people who notice Steve Jordan, then you can shift gears to self publishing.
Let's face it, If Dan Brown was only self published, nobody would have ever heard of him. I say that not to equate your writing with his, but as an example of just how much marketing matters. If you don't want to market, then you need to sell through channels that do marketing for you.
Think of those air-headed celebraties and their ghost-written books. writing quality? Subject material? Hah! Pure marketing. It's even marketing of their other (celebraty) marketing.
And those channels aren't free.
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