Authors and Self-Publishing

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi TT:

I think the right way to look at this is that it's very difficult to be successful when you self-publish. However, Two Plus Two did begin as a self-publishing operation.

Very quickly, what happened was that the publisher I had did not publish my book and after two years of waiting, in 1987 I hired an attorney who was able to get the book back for me. (This publisher went bankrupt and they would have never put the book out.) At this time, I now had three books written and went the self-publishing route.

Ironically, for reasons that would take too long to go through here except to say that the market has changed dramatically in twenty years, I don't believe that what I was able to do in the late 1980s and early 1990s could be done today. So I and Two Plus Two should be listed under the lucky category.

Best wishes,
Mason