Last month, The Husband and I attended Sci-Fi Valley Con in Altoona, PA, and had a blast.  One of the more interesting parts of the Con, for us, was the panel talk given by author Chris Kennedy, who has successfully self-published four genre novels, with a fifth one on the way.  He had a lot of great advice and insights into the business of self-publishing, and I felt that many of you out there who, like me, are sitting on the Next Great Novel hoping to find a publisher, might draw inspiration from Chris' experi