Going indie

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WHEN H.M. Ward was offered US$1.5mil in advances, she was amused.

Ward, who is a self-published New York Times bestselling-author, has sold over four million books since 2011. She can easily take home a five to six-figure salary a week from the sales of her book, she said in a post on Kindleboards, a popular forum for self-published authors.