Back in the day, if you wanted a story to be distributed, you kinda had to tell it, with your mouth or your hands. Then however came the clay tablet; the scroll; the codex; the printing press; the paperback; the publishing house; the PDF. When it comes to the creation and dissemination of written material, what was under the purview of a literate few is now something the individual can achieve on their own with the right knowledge, software, and printer. Or the right notebook even. Whether bestseller or humble zine, the word that has emerged to handle this process, ‘publishing’, is an umbrella term of activities ranging from editing and design to printing and marketing. And it is also so much more.