As the publisher of “High Kill,” a novel written by Hive account@rhondak under the pen name Diane Ryan, we should interject here that references to this novel as “self-published” are incorrect. Steemhouse is an LLC incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia with a valid EIN number issued by the State Corporation Commission. We are members in good standing with the Independent Book Publishers Association and have both an acquisition team and an editing team as well as a governing board. Any submissions published by us, whether short form or long form fiction, are indeed “published” in the most traditional sense.