It used to be that self-publishing was called “vanity publishing”: And it was the way product fulfillment companies made money from failed or unskilled authors.
Nothing nowadays could be further from the truth.
Self-publishing has become an accepted mainstream form of communication and income generation. Now, more than ever before, getting published no longer hangs on the whim of one individual editor:
The general public decides whose work is valid and whose is not.
The proof is in your sales.