What You Should Know Before Self-Publishing a Book
by Lindsey Ellefson from Lifehacker on (#5YXNX)

If you have a big idea the world needs to read about, you can write a book-but the publishing world is hard to break into and tricky to navigate. What does an agent do? What is a query letter? Do you have to know someone who knows someone to get anywhere? Will the pub-world gatekeepers stand between your message and...