Slave to the Algorithms

How the race to satisfy one company’s voracious appetite has shaped the self-publishing world.

Photo by Zulmaury Saavedra on Unsplash.

Four years ago, I took the leap into the world of self-publishing. I hadn’t even written a book before let alone tried to publish one. My writing had been confined to a handful of essays sold on job boards and scouring the then free listings on Duotrope for…