The Myth of the Lazy Writer

Once the hard part is done and a draft is written, there are two basic routes a writer can take. Much ink has been spilled over the past few years about the rise of self-publishing-even though the route predates Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin. To self-publish requires hiring cover artists, editors, and typesetters or learning to do these things on one's own. The difficult task of emailing a cover artist to hire her services is often used to frighten authors away from self-publishing. That's because there's a myth that authors are lazy, and a myth that some authors merely write for a living. No such creature has ever existed.