Sneaking out a few copies online...

...to see what people think. Having very consciously and determinedly gone for a) self-publishing and b) treating the book as an argument, a personal polemic, and therefore not consulting anyone else's opinion or feedback before publication - I hadn't anticipated what a crisis of confidence this would engender! The book could have been out weeks earlier if it hadn't been for my (mostly unconscious) prevarifications, all of which were symptomatic of that unanticipated fear of exposure. Goodness me, our internal emotional architecture can be an odd edifice.