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Originally Posted by derekkohlhagen
Thanks so much for checking out the book, Cinisajoy! I sincerely hope you enjoy it!
Also, many thanks on the advice. Thinking it over, I tend to agree. It's a sad reality that there's such a thick atmosphere of assumption and bias that can prevent someone from getting to the actual meat of a piece of creative content, based on comparatively superficial things like book covers and author bios. But, it is the world we live in. I think it's an insightful thing to say that most regular readers are savvy enough these days to know that "self-publishing" means that anybody can publish anything and call it just that, regardless of quality. Probably better to remove the chance of an assumption altogether.
I suppose labeling a book as "self-published" only really works FOR the book AFTER it has achieved a certain level of success. At that point, I think the perception turns into "oh wow, AND he/she published it THEMSELVES?". It's far more impressive after the fact.
So yes, I'll seriously consider changing the wording on the bio. Thanks again!
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Little secret: I have been around self-published authors for a few years. The bad part is that it is not an assumption that self-published is mostly unreadable. The fact is in my own research between 75-90% is either unreadable (bad grammar, translation errors,) bad formatting, or just copy and paste from others.
I think the only people that should say that are those that went from a big publishing company to self published. But they don't put that in their author bio, they just start a blog.
Anyway good luck. I will post again when I have read your novel.