About ten years ago I signed up with another company like Lulu to publish the non-fiction story of my brother's murder. I paid over $1800 for a package, but then decided it was too soon to publish it. My family wasn't ready for it, so I needed to rethink how I approached it. Though they finally refunded my money, it took a long time and a lot of effort. And I still get spam calls from them and a few other self-publishing types trying to get me to buy their packages.

I know now none of that is necessary. Self publishing is easy and there are many ways to do it. I've used KDP and then services like Draft to Digital to have a wider distribution. I pulled the sci-fi book I had published this way because I knew I could do better, but when I publish again I'm going to do it myself again (actually through the publishing company my daughter and I have started, which is an easy thing to do in my state).

The point is there's no excuse for authors not to publish now if they want to. No need to find an agent, or send queries -unless you want to. I know some who really want to go traditional and that's fine too.

Trying to get individual short stories published is different. I'm still at the mercy of the editors of the magazines!

And 110 pages is awesome! Does it nag at you to finish? A little each day or week can finish it up in no time!

Thanks for the comment @bobthebuilder2! Feels good to be back.