As for the key to winning, the participants seem to agree that despite the incredible amount of strategy necessary for a serious shot at the title,
a lucky roll of the dice might ultimately decide the outcome.
Another grateful occupant Mia, 20, expressed how
lucky she is to be part
of the program: «I feel like I just
rolled some
dice and hit something
lucky because I don't think I would have found a place that genuinely takes care
of kids like they do here.»
If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves
of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and
lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to
roll the
dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 %
of your print book's list price (minus the cost
of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.