This is a short-and-sweet but informative article by Kealan Patrick Burke with some great tips for authors who are thinking of going into self-publishing. He doesn’t say much about editing, but what he says should be a hard and fast rule. Many in the publishing/media industry look down on self-published authors because they skimp on editing (and end up with unreadable stuff). Yes, kids: the grammar you forgot from middle and elementary school will come back to haunt you.
I can identify with parts of his career story, and he gives some great advice. Check it out here.