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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I get a kick out of people trying to exclude "already successful authors" from discussions about self-publishing (or better yet, excluding the self-pubbers that went on to get tradpub deals). It's probably because it doesn't slot in nicely with their preconceived notion that all self-published stuff is garbage. Reminds me of mainstream literature cherry-picking all the bright and shiny stuff from the ranks of genre fiction and then poo-pooing genre fiction as garbage. 
"When I say 'self-published stuff is all garbage', I don't mean the good self-published stuff, I'm only talking about the garbage self-published stuff being garbage."  |
Of course, the whole "self-published stuff is all garbage" meme is purely a strawman argument. I haven't seen anyone say that self-published stuff is all garbage on this thread. What I've seen is people say that a lot of self published stuff is garbage and I don't want to filter through it, a very different point.
There are a lot of successful authors who self publish some of their books. Larry Correa has a number of books that are self published, mostly books that don't really fit in well with his other stories. I'm very fond of his Malcontents series, not strictly self published, but he does use a rather obscure publisher.
A lot of authors use self publishing for their backlist books. It seems to me that self publishing to make backlist books available is one place where self publishing really shines. I just wish there was a better way to be notified when that happens.