This article definitely opens the door for discussion. I enjoyed your take on digital media and how trying to query for trad publishers is like trying to win the lottery. I know of several independent authors whose use of new technologies and leveraging the email subscriptions, has helped them phenomenally. I love Kenya Wright’s novels for this very reason. She prints physical books and on Kindle Vella. Julie Lessman, a Christian author that writes sweet romance—had to self publish some of her books because the gatekeepers would not publish a story with prolonged kissing🫠

Overall, I enjoy paperbacks and the smell of them, and although I am indie published, I may one day play my hand in the “ literary lottery”