Self publishing is the only sensible way to go these days. Getting published traditionally has always been a crapshoot, with little to do with the quality of the work (look at the number of times JK Rowling and Stephen king were rejected if you have any doubts).<p>And it can be anything you want. Publish a novel for your grand kids? No problem. Want to make a full time living? It's a LOT of work, but your chances are much better self published than traditional publishing. And MUCH more under your control.<p>And trad publishing uses self publishing as a farm league these days. They want to know you can sell, before they buy. Although why you would want to change, if you were selling well, I don't know. I guess fifty shades of grey did this with some success. But there's a chance going traditional will sink your book like a rock to be considered, too.<p>There are several people in my authors group grossing over $100,000 per month. I know zero trad authors personally, that are doing that.<p>Currently the biggest total payouts still seem to be traditional, but their numbers are so small as to be irrelevant.