The Wake-Up Call: What it Means to Be A Self-Published Writer

I know what you want. It’s the same thing I want:

Freedom to write without distraction. A full-time income from one book. Enough money in the bank that I can travel to each of the settings in my novels. Some magic marketing bullet that guarantees my books’ success.

Am I right?

How about these:

Books that “flow” from somewhere inside, without really trying. A website that I can set up in 10 minutes that suddenly gets millions of page views per day. A perfectly-edited first draft.

Yeah?

Well here’s a...