July 8, 2016

Self-publishing is a growing, thriving market. Breakout successes are coming with greater frequency and weight, and more and more people are thinking to do away with the time-consuming and frustrating process of submitting their writing to traditional publishers.

Lydia Lee, self-described “escape coach” for 9–5ers all over the world, started her journey in 2011 when she left her cushy job in Vancouver to redesign her lifestyle and start her own business.

With writers like E. L. James and Hugh Howey on the market showing astonishing self-publishing success, writers are asking what their best option is.

If you’re an an author, a writer, you’re already benchmarking this process against your own. You’re also considering whether Gillian Flynn is a good enough writer whose habits you could deem worthy of mimicking.