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Richard Paul Evans went from a 700-square-foot Salt Lake City house to a much larger one, all because of a little tale he wrote for his daughters.
Evans first printed only 20 copies of the book. But in the days before the Internet took off, friends started passing dog-eared copies around - and bookstores started asking for it.
At that point I thought, you know, maybe I should send this to publishers, and they all quickly rejected the book, Evans said.
So Evans self-published, and only after his book hit the bestseller list did a major publisher buy it, for a reported $4 million! So in a way he became a godfather to a whole new generation of authors who are writing the next chapter in the saga of self-publishing.
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Question for any authors here: Have you ever tried to self-publish?