I've been asked to write a blog post on my self-publishing journey, and, more importantly, on my decision to self-publish, why I chose to get out there in the wild wild publishing world on my own. I've written a bunch of posts on publishing before, like about self-publishing platforms (link), how donations make me more money than sales (link), how much it cost me to self-publish (link), and close to 20 posts more. They are all here (link). But I haven't really written in a single post as to why I have plunged deep into this scary thing called self-publishing. I'll attempt to explain.