![]() ![]() However, in the research she did before releasing the book she realized that she would have to create accounts and she learned a lot about what was expected of an author who was self-publishing. She had no social media presence when she started out. However, she hoped that the right reader or readers would find it, and that would only happen if she self-published it. But she didn’t want to go through the extended querying process that is often involved in traditional publishing and she thought the book was unmarketable. But as the book increased in length, it started to seem silly to her not to publish it. She wrote it for herself and initially was not planning to show it to anyone. ![]() She never submitted her book to traditional publishers. It went on to win the American Library Association’s Alex Award and A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Within only three weeks of being self-published, the novel was picked up by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The Sea of Tranquility was initially self-published by Katja Millay in 2012. ![]()
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