one year of querying | why i’m self-publishing my sapphic romance novel📝

Hi everyone—this is a really different style of video for me, so I hope you enjoy it. I think I want to do more of these sit-down chats in the future: if I’m good at anything, it’s oversharing for long periods of time. If you’d like to follow along with Crush, you can join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HavenSteel?ut... or follow my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/havensteelw... follow Brielle’s channel here:    / @briellewrites   and the Dialogue Pod here!    / @thedialoguepod   time stamps: 00:00 - intro 01:03 - year-long querying update 04:33 - how querying has changed 05:50 - thoughts on self-publishing and “failure” 09:26 - publishing as community 10:32 - plans for my book/future books 14:52 - financing your work 19:22 - back to “failure” 22:40 - you have to try. 24:35 - self-publishing plans 25:44 - about my book! 34:45 - sapphic romance as a genre 36:52 - last thoughts 40:42 - outro