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Old 01-12-2016, 11:32 AM   #72
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
Oh what is her name? Oh yeah. Breena Aubrey. She turned down a 7 figure advance from a big publishing house to self publish. And note that "advance" was in 3 installments over 3 years.
She made that herself in 4 months.
Let's see Russell Blake started out in self-publishing and he is now a co-author with that Clive Cussler.
JA Konrath is a traditionally-published author that went to self publishing.
Traditional publishing had to make Hugh Howey a good deal for him to talk to them.
I know 2 self-published authors that have full time employees.
Shall I continue?
This. And there are a ton of horrible traditionally published and independently published as well as self-published books.

So there!
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