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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.

Writers of literature make very little money.

The big bestsellers aren't being created by Barnes & Noble.

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.