Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:@mwl@io.mwl.io
Every time someone asks me about "how I self-publish," I flash back to a q&a at a con I shall not name, where I was on the "authors who make a living" panel, but I was the indie one.
A woman who probably meant well got the mic and said, "You do realize, sir, that this aggressive independence and hyper-self-reliance is nothing but a trauma response?"
I looked her in the eye and said, "So is hyper-competence."
So, yeah. That's how I make a living.