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After spending all that time and effort writing and maybe even illustrating your book, you want to make sure you do everything rightor at least as right as you can. Like this blog and the self publishing advice podcast, selfpubcon is an outreach education service from the alliance of independent authors. Once you write and format your book, we make it possible to share it. However, we do always recommend looking up your local book.
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