Feelings of Triumph, Relief, Panic and Failure on Self Publishing Your First Book

Here's a distilled account of my own experience, 36ish hours before the release of my self-published debut, about the shame that can't help attend an otherwise triumphant occasion.

This is my fourth attempt in five days to write basically the same post, in which I recount the same facts, and I think the reason it’s proved so elusive is that the motivating feelings seem to chang…