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A while back someone sent me a link to a podcast with an author who earns a mind-bending amount of money selling self-published fiction on Amazon.
Like somewhere around the median American family’s income — every single month.
I also came across a thread in a Facebook Group that was started by someone who was depressed by this author’s success. More than 100 comments on that thread — a mix between effervescent kudos, a nearly manic desire to reverse engineer this author’s success, and more depression.
I clicked over to his Amazon page and realized that I’d met him at a conference that I was at once.