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Quit worrying about publication and master your craft. If you have a good story to tell and if you write it well, the Universe will come to your aid. Don’t self-publish. That’s as good as admitting you’re too lazy to do the hard work.
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She's right only about the part writing better. She's wrong about the universe coming to your aid. It doesn't. It reminds me of the fable to the grasshopper and the ant. The grasshopper might have said that the universe comes to your aid, the ant certainly wouldn't have said it. Publishers do reject good stories. For her to be right, it must be the case that
all good stories will eventually be picked up by a publisher. But the publishers aren't infallible. Every time you read and enjoy a self-published book, you prove her wrong.
Her calling self-published authors lazy is idiotic. Both the author who sumbits their work to a publisher and the author self-publishes have both done work, we can't assume the latter did not put time and effort into it. But the self-published author has to do the marketing themselves, and that's not for the lazy.