The other day, I was looking at some books featured in one of the many “book deal” emails I get daily, and I stumbled upon a short story where the title was misspelled — on the cover. The friggin’ cover, for god’s sake. And what’s more is it was a one-word title. I mean, seriously.

And, of course, this was a self-published book. It’s careless authors like this one who cause snooty traditionally published authors to roll their eyes and scoff at self-published authors as unprofessional, unser...