Bella sat across the table from me, sipping a glass of red wine and chatting with the men gathered around her. She was witty, raven-haired, and feisty. Her smile was intriguing and her laughter contagious. During dinner we talked, and I overheard her chatting with others. I came to some educated guesses about her. Bella, a woman of wealth. Bella, a best-selling author. Bella, a Stanford-trained economist. Bella, a mother of two. Bella, a bride, the wife of Mr. Andre. But, by the end of the night, I realized she had a secret and that one of the above statements wasn't true. So what can I say for sure? Let's begin with her keynote speech, delivered earlier in the day at the San Francisco Writer's Conference. She described her education, and her unlikely journey to becoming a record-setting author, with eBook sales hitting $25,000-50,000 a day. She netted a cool 70% of this, and her streak ran for weeks, then months. So I'd say she...
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