Publishing a book shouldn't be harder than writing one. Yet it is, especially if you don't know what you're doing. The path to self-publication is a minefield. It's a route crammed with roadblocks and hurdles; a road fraught with speed bumps and detours; a flabbergastingly tiring trek of vast distances and steep grades that have left more than a few would-be self-published authors panting on the sidelines in abject defeat. To make matters worse, there's no shortage of compani