Self Publishing is extremely hard for me, because you need to do your own advertising and I do not have the capacity to go "Look at this amazing thing I did, now pay me!" I can hardly do that to one person, much less doing that to a dozen people a day like I know some self published authors do. I'm not criticizing them, mind. They should do what they need/want to do. It's just not something I'm good at, and I'm not claiming I'm that way out of humbleness either. Partially it is that, but it's also partially pride. I can't bring myself to beg, I guess, which is what I feel like I am doing when I do that. 

But self publishing is more than just shilling your work, or it takes more to sell one than simply that. You need at least 3 things. 
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[*]You need a cover. Even if it is an ebook, you need a good cover to catch people.
[*]A good, gripping title.
[*]Research the market. If you can find the right market, you could more easily get sales. No one is looking for a 45,000 word stand-alone space opera [s]except me[/s]. People tend to enjoy romance novels, children's books, horror novels. Anything past those, like Space Opera/Epic Fantasy/Grimdark Anything, they need to be in a certain word range. Epic Fantasy is usually above 90,000 words for instance. Almost no one buys a 50,000 word story of anything. It's too long for a novella and too short for a contemporary novel. The only time publishing a story like that would work is if you hire an agent, or make it something a large market would eat up like romance.
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