Maybe it's time to take the plunge and become self-published like me

Fiction: The Accidental Life of Greg Millar, Denise Deegan amazon.co.uk, £8.99

The art of reinvention: Denise Deegan took charge of her own work and became self-published.

Denise Deegan

I found excitement on a whole new level when I self-published writes Denise Deegan.

Authors, like artists, live with rejection. We meet it when trying to get published. We meet it trying to stay published. We write, and then others decide if our work is good enough to be let out into the world. Or at least, that's how it used to be.