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Atlantic had a story a few years back about how Fifty Shades of Gray was built on Wattpad. It sounded ideal. Paid my $ and found it less than ideal. No readers and no rich and famous. Oh well.

Wow. Great responses. Thanks so much. You have given me approaches to take and lots more information about the industry. I owe all of you. BTW, I am 76. 20 books sitting on Smashwords. About 1500 readers per book. Enough to keep me writing.

First, I am really old. So that influences my ambitions. I see all the work people put into finding an agent (how many posts on the perfect query are published each day?). and then the long waits for some publisher to respond (and apparently most don't), and then there may or may not be modest...

Reviewers keep telling me I need a great cover, great title, and great first paragraph (I'm working on it). When I read your first paragraphs, I find a man waiting for a train - for some reason, playing with his phone - for some reason, and waiting for a promotion - for some reason. Give me a...