Technically this will be posting in week 16. Unfortunately I didn’t notice it hadn’t posted until too late to fix it.
It has been a long, hard couple of weeks here. My mom was very ill, and came very close to literally breathing her last. I think it made all of us look at our life choices and such with a little more speculation than we had been previously.
I for one am even more grateful that I kicked the habit years ago, which is something I wish my mother had done. …

I don’t have much time to write this post, and I’ll have to schedule it to post later in the week just in case I can get back and flesh it out. If I don’t, please make do with what’s here. And ignore the sarkiness. If you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a bitter old bitch.

Warning: This post contains rage, possible triggers for survivors of assault, venting of a personal nature, and definite foul language. Readers be advised to proceed with caution, or don’t click through or scroll down.

We were once a Nielsen Homescan family. We thought it was fun at first, once we got past the initial frustration with the company. We’d done it for almost a year, and… life gets in the way sometimes, right? Warning – some foul language ahead.

I’ve been reading some interesting takes on what self-publishing, vanity publishing, and POD publishing really are.
Apparently*:
…starting your own company to self-publish your own work using whichever form of small-run printing and distribution is fine. That’s ‘real’ publishing with a publisher.
…starting your own company to publish others and using POD formats is subsidy publishing.
…using POD and e-book services such as the entity formerly known as BookSurge (aka Createspace), LSI, Lulu, Smashwords and KDP to self-publish or publish others is vanity publishing.
* NOT my opinions.
These are mine:
First of all, said opinionated …