SPA Girls Podcast – EP256 – Self Publishing Versus Traditional Publishing

In response to a listener question, this week we attempt to answer the question: Knowing what you know now, if you were starting out in publishing today, would you go straight to self publishing, or would you try out traditional publishing first?

It’s a hard question, because we’re not starting out now, we do know an awful lot more than we did when we first started and when we started (7-8 years ago) everything was different.

And also, we all clearly believe in self publishing over traditional…! 

But… in the interests of helping our listeners make these kinds of decisions, we decided to give you the pros and cons of traditional vs self publishing.

It’s a little skewed, we admit that. But we did our best… 🙂 So join us for another great episode!!

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