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The truth is, selling your short stories to publishers is not
the way to make a comfortable living from something you enjoy
doing. The reason isn’t hard to understand. Publishers pay a
once-off payment for your stories, if they are accepted. And
that once-off payment, in most cases, isn’t anything to get
excited about.

But most writers settle for this because they tell themselves,
well, at least my story is published.

Wrong.

You can have your cake and eat it too. You can become published
and you can make a comfortable income too.

Other writers have done it. I have done it. And you can do it
too.

What has brought this change of events? You might have guessed
the Internet. The Web far surpasses all those other options open
to us. With the Internet…

* It’s in your capacity to start your own business, it doesn’t
matter what your circumstance are.

* You can keep building on that business to increase your income

* You can run your business on autopilot. Have you heard the
stories where Internet business owners make money while they
sleep? They aren’t kidding.

* You can keep generating sales from your short stories. Don’t
only sell them once to a publisher. Keep selling the same
stories over and over again.

Becoming frustrated with submitting to publishers I thought I’d
try to sell my stories myself and ’see what happens.’ I saw what
happened alright. I saw I’d been wasting my time all those years
settling for less. I’m thankful to that writer who opened my
eyes to the power of the internet.

I’ve made more from this book of short stories than I sell at
http://www.storieswithatwist.com than I’ve seen all those years
waiting for publishers to sell my stories.

I’ve learnt something from this experiment.

If you want things to happen - you have to make them happen.

The transition between unpublished and published lies in your
thinking.

Do you want to keep submitting to publishers to see what
happens?

Or

Do you want to sell your stories yourself and see what happens?