Self-publishing matters – don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
A long list of commercial success stories has emerged from the self-publishing boom, sometimes with sales in the millions.
19 Mar 2015 12:00
Dallas J Baker
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Writing and Publishing
Unless you are a mountain hermit or a committed Luddite, you will have noticed there has been a massive growth in self-publishing activity over the last decade or so.
Dallas J. Baker is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University and an academic in Creative Writing in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University.
He is the founding and now managing editor of Polari Journal, an international, peer-reviewed queer Creative Writing journal. He is currently Assistant Editor, Special Issues of TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses.
Dallas is also a creative writer with work published in a wide range of journals and anthologies. In the 1980s he began writing under the nom de plume Dallas Angguish, and still does from time to time. His collection of travel tales, America Divine: Travels in the Hidden South, was published in 2011.
His current research interests are memory and memoir, masculinity, scriptwriting and Creative Writing pedagogy.
