Howard Lovy, Managing Editor at The Alliance of Independent Authors, did a Q&A with me recently about my latest experiment: poetry on Patreon. Though it was poetry that first got me into self-publishing, I realized recently I had all sorts of assumptions that were coming between me and my poetry publishing. I was making a special case for poetry in my head. I hadn’t set up my books to attract followers to an email list. I hadn’t invested any time or money in them, beyond writing and producing them. It wasn’t that I thought they were going to sell themselves so much…