It All Started.... My Journey to Sales, Part 1

Someone recently asked how I got started selling my writing. I was going to send him an email, but then I thought, "Why waste a post?" so here is my answer.

When I was in high school (mumble mumble) years ago, I stumbled across a genre known as fan fiction--fanfic for short. Fanfic is fiction written by amateurs set in an already-established fictional world and usually featuring the characters created for those worlds. Fanfic often also features at least one character created by the amateur wr...