@silentashes This is just how I came to be on Verso’s radar in the first place! Self-publishing via POD is a perfectly sound strategy for early-career folks, and I’d advocate just that for anyone who’s willing to hire a professional editor out of their pocket (which really is mandatory IMO). Where it falls down, by and large, is in distribution. Unless you’ve got, like, a hypermotivated stan army to pass your link around like nerdly samizdat, you really need those resources behind you.