Do you think self-publishing is taking the easy way out? Jodi Picoult, a New York Times best-selling author, does. Picoult posted on TikTok her thoughts on self-publishing (unprompted, it appears), and said ‘self-publishing is taking the easy way out.’ Normally, I don’t wade into online arguments about every last thing in publishing, but this is such an egregious misrepresentation of the truth, and sadly, something I hear all the time.