neversremedy8 | Poetry Collection

I'm struggling with the author bio and synopsis of this collection. I realized that along with the usual obstacles for many writers facing these seemingly simple tasks, I'm also having to push through some old baggage.

See, I always thought of self-publishing as embarrassing. It was a shameful, self-aggrandizing act, unless you're publishing something of a political, whistle blowing nature that no publisher would touch.

Now that "indie publishing" has been come commonplace with even Neil Gaiman endorsing it, you'd think I'd be ok with going forward, but like many long-held messages from childhood (see: body issues, self-esteem, identity, et al), it's going to take a conscious battle on my part to see this through. It doesn't help that this is poetry; who wants to pay for poetry from an unknown?

(Oh, and hi LJ! Had my baby, will post about it soon, now working on assembling poetry collection for publishing through createspace.)

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