How to Get Your Foot in the Door of Getting Published

In addition to your like translations, you've written a book. Advice to writers: How did you get your foot in the door of getting published thoughts on self-publishing versus traditional? My longest book is about 120,000 words, which is 350 pages or something. Fantasy is generally a doorstopper. In the tradition of Tolkien, that's what I aspire to anyway. But with Russian fairy tales being the substrate, the soil of the story.