In today's Guardian, novelist Sue Grafton made dismissive comments regarding self-publishing and ignited a backlash. Calling them 'too lazy to do the hard work', she deemed it disrespectful and characterised the authors as 'wannabes.'
British author Adam Croft, a self-published thriller author who has sold 250,000 copies of his books in the last year, took Grafton to task: "The complete opposite is true. Self-publishing means finding your own proofreader, finding your own editor, finding your own cover designer, doing all your own marketing and sales work. Having a publisher is lazy as all you need to do is write a half-acceptable book and allow your publisher's editor to make it sales-worthy. Self-publishers must do it all — we have no one else to pick up the slack."