Publish where, how, what you want to publish, when you want to publish, not where everyone else is publishing just because those places may have an air of prestige, desirability. Publish where the people you care most about will access to work, without others' imposed boundaries.
I have this suspicion that your "core" readership is not "The Academy," but the folks, the gente, the familia/pamilya, mga kapwa-tao, mga kapuso.
How do you best reach them but to go where they are and where they gather, to bring your presence and your work there.
How do you best reach them but to go where they are and where they gather, to bring your presence and your work there.
Two of my books are published by SF based #Filipinx #indie #publishers and "the industry" doesn't give a shit about those #books but I do, and for some folks in my community, these books make it possible to see/envision their own #publication.
