Starting an Internet Publishing Business
by Jay Dubya 
On July 1st, 1999 I had retired from the Hammonton, New Jersey Public School District as a middle school' English teacher after thirty-four years of service. I knew there would be an eight hour daily time-void in my life, so I decided to fill it by making my avocation (writing) my vocation. The task of becoming a successful author was much more formidable than I had originally anticipated.
I had written and re-written a dozen book-length manuscripts over the past three decades and knew I could get over a million words in print within several months. My naïve strategy was to blitz the Internet' marketplace with my dozen e-books and cause a chemical reaction. 'People tend to be binge readers,' I thought, 'and if someone were to read one of my books, I figured that person would immediately desire to read another of my works.' Right? Wrong!
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Copyright-The Hammonton (New Jersey) Gazette
5/30 & 6/27, 2001 editions
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