Elevated by the Amazon Kindle Daily Deal

Waiting for the elusive Kindle Daily Deal email is like waiting for an invitation to your favorite celebrities party. You hope and dream that the day will come when your invitation will appear in your mail. What do you do when it finally shows up? I’ll tell you what I did. I sat, staring at the computer screen. I was sure that it was real. I checked the address and the date, and when I was finally convinced that it was real, I hyperventilated.

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Writer's Life, Success Kimberly Smith Writer's Life, Success Kimberly Smith

Self-Publishing Success and Failure: It's up to you.

Many new writers believe that they can write a book and put it out there, and it's going to become a best seller. It probably won't. The key to success is knowing that it only comes with hard work. There is no such thing as an easy payday. Yes, you can write the book and sit back and wait to collect passive income while you go off and shop for that new drop-top or house on the hill. The only problem is that unless you market your book, no one will know that it exists.

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Kimberly Smith Kimberly Smith

Hobby or Business-Creative Writing

For the most part, writing has been a hobby. It wasn’t until 2017 that I jumped into the world of self-publishing and put my first book out for the world to read. It did better than I ever expected and I went whole hog into trying to establish myself as a self-published author. I wrote more books as I read everything I could find about how to become a six-figure author.

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