Not OP, but I've also been self- and traditionally published. It's always worth sending it to agents, but not for feedback. You're more likely to get struck by lightning than get feedback from an agent who doesn't want to represent you — it'll be polite rejection email or nothing — but it's always worth taking that chance that they do want to represent you.

Because while it's great that we live in a golden age of self-publishing, it's a tough row to hoe. You don't just have to be a good writer, you have to be (or hire) a good copy-editor, graphic designer, publicist, sales force, marketing department, etc., all of which someone else will do for you if you do land a publisher. And it's very tough to convince bookstores to stock your book if you're self-published, so that's a vast part of the market you're not going to reach.

I'm really happy I self-published my first novel, because after working on it for six years on and off, it's finally a real book that people have read and enjoyed. But I'm still waiting to hit three figures in sales. My traditionally published books are all in the five figures, one of them six. Granted, those books aren't fiction; they're novelty-format books that sell perennially, and do well in stores that aren't bookstores. But they're in those stores because I have a publisher with a sales force who has relationships with those stores.

Whereas with self-publishing, you're really starting from nothing unless you have an established audience from some other arena.

tl;dr — you should try and get an agent/publisher, but self-pub is a great fallback plan.

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