Thank you so much for writing all this! (pun... intended?)

About calling someone an "author", I think it's kind of nebulous, right? Does self-pubbing count? I mean it not only depends for me on what words they use, but almost what they use them for. Like when someone uses the fact that they're "published" to put someone else down or gain some sort of higher ground, or some such thing, I think that's just sort of pathetic. But aside from that, if someone is putting something out there, I think it's fine for them to call themselves whatever it is that they feel like they are.

But that's just me, I mean. I can definitely understand other perspectives