The Power of Self-Publishing

"I had none of the traditional things that people say that you should have in order to publish a book," she says. "So what's cool about the journey that I've been on over the last three to four years is I've done it all backward." She was told by 21 publishers they couldn't take her, even though she had hundreds of thousands of followers. 'That has given me so much power to start and try new things that I wouldn't have otherwise'