Good to know it can be done...

Of course, reading about self-published people who made it big closely resembles reading about lottery winners who say "I went into a shop, paid a pound, and guessed six numbers", but it still feels good to know that some people have made print-on-demand (or, in this case, eBooks by Kindle) work for them, without going the old mainstream publishing route.

I feel reassured it can happen, but that doesn't improve my own odds from 14 million to one, not really.

Any more than anyone could have predicted that combining Just William, boarding schools and magic spells would have made J.K. Rowling richer than the queen.