Self-publishing takes off for aspiring bestseller writers

By Susan Wyndham
January 6 2013 - 3:00am

SELF-PUBLISHING can sound like an easy step to bestsellerdom. American author Hugh Howey is the latest to fly from obscurity to fame with his post-apocalyptic hit Wool, which began as a digital ''novelette'' in 2011 and grew into a novel after thousands of online rave reviews from readers.

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