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Aspiring Indie Author? Stop aspiring and start publishing.

Have you been working on your novel for the past few (or many) years and still haven't done anything with it? Why not? It's now easier than ever to self-publish and get your work out there within days. It doesn't take a huge budget or an agent or even 100k words. All it takes is a good story and a small investment in an editor and some decent cover art and you can be a published author.
Sites like smashwords.com allow you to get your books on amazon, bn.com, itunes, etc for FREE. You have to jump through a few hoops to get the formatting just right but even that can be done in a few hours or outsourced for about $50. 

You can even have paperbacks printed on demand with no out-of-pocket expenses to you. Just format, upload and start selling your books directly or on amazon.com.

Stop procrastinating and start doing! You could be receiving royalty checks in as few as 60 days if you start now. 

Get a piece of the billion dollar self-publishing pie!

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