Let’s Talk About the Shame Surrounding Self-Publishing

and why that’s dumb

Photo by Joyce Hankins on Unsplash

The morning of January 31st is when the messages first started rolling in. Friends, family and people I haven’t spoken to in years began reaching out to tell me how proud they were of my accomplishment.

My Facebook messenger app was brimming. The annoying ding-dong text alert I programmed into my phone months…