Empire Builders · EB-009
Every Publisher Said No. She Published It Herself. It Sold Three Million Copies. They All Called Back.
Forty-seven publishers said no to Dr. Amelia Vance’s manuscript citing insufficient commercial potential. After self-publishing in March 2018 and selling forty thousand copies by December, she became a bestseller and turned down a seven-figure deal from one of those publishers.
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