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Dakota Krout, an avid reader, wrote a book for fun. It made $5,000 on Amazon in its first month.
He turned down a prestigious internship at NASA JPL to pursue writing full time.
He says that to be a successful writer on Amazon, you have to get over your fears and start writing.
It all began because Dakota Krout hates not having enough to do. After eight years in the Army, he had enrolled in college and nearly completed his degree in software engineering. Even though he was working two part-time jobs, he found himself with stretches of free time between classes.