I've Done Amazing Deals in Brazil, and I'm Getting a Book, and It's Localized for the American Market

Self publishing used to be thought of as the last resort for writers. Once you've signed with a publisher, they own those rights for whatever the contract stipulates and your decisions are now over. So if you think about your decision tree, a used to be the last resort, self publishing,. That's now the place of th most freedom and most choice. And all you can do from there is winnow your decision tree down till you have no choice. If you still self publish, you're crazy like your friends saying, i don't want any more control over what happens with my art"