This one time I was in a bookstore (you're shocked, I know) and I met this guy.
   He seemed like a hipster-artist-type by the looks of him; long hair, tattoos and ripped clothes.  We got to chatting, and I told him I was an author, and it turned out he was a painter and an author as well.  He asked me about my book, and I told him about it, and when he asked me how I was publishing, I told him I was self-publishing.
   "I tried that once," he said with reminiscenc...