I mentioned a few posts back that I'd concluded that self-publishing was the way to go. I'm not rushing, but that's still where I'm going. I'm working up what my options are, bearing in mind that there'll be upfront costs.
I've revisited my original vamp stories, which a year ago I would have said were done, and revised them quite extensively with a second pass about to come. I've also got clean prints of my two existing novels to work on. The writing work-in-progress is on the shelf while the revising/editing gets done, but inevitably the work-in-progress will be improved as a consequence, so that's OK.
Costs will be editing and cover design, primarily. Having the text as good as I can currently make it ought to mitigate editing costs if and when I engage a third party who doesn't know me.
I've scratched the surface of marketing ideas but have more to work out there. I have a horrible feeling I may have to create an author page on Facebook, a site I'd rather have nothing to do with. Probably GoodReads as well :-/ These are sites I actively avoid as a private individual and as a reader, but they appear to be where at least some of the action is. The driving factor is those start-up costs: the only way I'll make any dent in them is through sales, which means going where the audience is.
I also think, by the way, that my post of 22 October last year was misconceived.
Anyway: watch this space.
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