Is Selling Books The Only Validation Authors Seek?

Finding writers who don’t care about selling books might seem like a silly pursuit.

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Still, most serious writers are Way more concerned with writing books than selling them.

That seems true even in this new era of self-publishing.

Do authors still crave seeing their books in a brick-and-mortar store?

Do E-shelves, crammed to overflowing with not-so-serious authors’ wares, feel wrong?

But, bottom-line, selling en...