I for one support whatever decision you come to and wish I had connections in the industry or real world experience in publishing to help… my best suggestion is to try small publishers - which is where I’m at - it seems a good option, a compromise between self publishing and trying to engage an agent. I may lose my pledged copy, but as long as I can afford to, I don’t mind paying authors directly (as I did Tom Cox) to get a replacement. Best wishes.
I for one support whatever decision you come to and wish I had connections in the industry or real world experience in publishing to help… my best suggestion is to try small publishers - which is where I’m at - it seems a good option, a compromise between self publishing and trying to engage an agent. I may lose my pledged copy, but as long as I can afford to, I don’t mind paying authors directly (as I did Tom Cox) to get a replacement. Best wishes.