Part 1. Part 2.
Today we’ll hear from Levi Montgomery, a self-published writer who also blogs at The Write Rants. Levi was gracious enough to allow me to post his opinions here, and I appreciate it. So, without further ado:
The biggest single barrier to the wide-spread acceptance of self-published books is the staunch voice of the traditional publishing industry, crying in the wilderness: “But you need us! We protect you from the riff-raff!” The argument is that the industry performs a valuable service, acting as a gatekeeper to the public …

Part 1 can be found here. I said there that I had some ideas for methods to make self-published e-books a “legitimate” way to publish a book, specifically with regard to listing self-published e-books as items on a resume. Here are the options, as I see them. They all have their drawbacks and advantages – I’ve listed them all in order to be as complete as possible, not to advocate them all.
In order to make this article itself a little more legitimate, I also emailed several people in various …

Once upon a time I had my sights set on a Creative Writing teaching job. I thought it was what I wanted to do, but over the years my views have changed. However, all this thinking about e-books lately has gotten me thinking about it again, not about applying, but about the applications themselves. That’s where this multipart article started, although it got much bigger in short order, after I started looking for other opinions. It got big enough to warrant multiple parts, so stay tuned over the next few …