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How can an author succeed in this day and age?

Welcome, friends.

Welcome listeners.

So glad you're out there.

My name's Chris Gillebeau.

We've got a caller today who has been working on their first novel, and she doesn't

want it to be confined to a drawer or a file on her computer forever.

In fact, she wants to sell this novel. She wants

other people to be able to read it, which seems like a good goal to me, right? You spend a long

time writing a book. You want people to read it. But she's also feeling a little discouraged because

so many books are commercially unsuccessful. So what should she consider? How, as I said,

can an author succeed in this day and age? This is a question

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