Last year, I launched my new series, School Is A Nightmare. We never dreamed that Sweet Farts would hit the Amazon Humorous Bestsellers list by February 2009 and stay there for four years running! At the time, I couldn't have imagined that in only four year's time I'd have eight titles out in the U.S., half a dozen foreign deals, and film offers for my books. When my book, Sweet Farts (don't judge, kids love it), released in November 2008, my wife and I crossed our fingers and hoped we'd be lucky enough to make our money back some day. I took my Iron Man money and invested it in self-publishing. She convinced me it was time to stop investing in stock options based on comic book character movie hunches and start investing in my writing. One day my wife read an article in a local paper about a writer who'd self-published a book using a print on demand service. I'd managed to skim a bit of a profit trading stock on Marvel Studios when it announced it would create an Iron Man movie. I wasn't terrible at it, but I wasn't that good either. I'd read a bunch of Jim Cramer books on options trading after which I convinced myself I could figure it out. Writing wasn't paying the bills, and I had two young children to provide for.
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