Self-publishing is literally starting your own business, just like opening your own food truck, or starting your own landscaping service. Yeah, you have a lot more creative control in self-pub, but it’s going to be expensive and difficult, especially if you don’t have any background in marketing. I used to champion for self-publishing, but now that I’ve had a couple years dealing with traditional publishing, I have to say, keep querying with agents. What would you say about being on both sides of the coin (off and on a major label)? From what I can see on social media, though, it seems to be flourishing.Ģ. I’ve been out of the game for a couple years now, focusing on day jobs and working with Tor to edit the Malus books, so I haven’t had much of a front row seat to the indie thing. Over the past 5 years or so, how do you think things have changed (for better or worse) for those that are on indie labels or are self-published? However, now you have Tor/Macmillian backing you. I have read some places where you have discussed the struggles of being an indie author.I couldn’t help but ask to dive more into where some of this might have come from and thankfully, she was more than willing to discuss it.

However, Hunt is about to unleash a the first installment of a horror trilogy that while nailing all playing fields of the trauma (see the hallucinating of pimple exploding waxy flies to the killing serpents and witch hunters), also embeds an underlying thread of thoughtfulness and connection with the characters and plot lines (but you can go see my review for more of that). and I think, after reading Burn the Dark. I just like to make these interviews unique. Especially since when you take this interview and the last with King’s Questioner author, Nikki Katz, I’m turning into Kim Kardashian, which is utter non-sense 😉. Well, once you get past the first question ).

Malus Domestica by S.A. Hunt