Publishers gain access to
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The amazing team here at Smashwords: Our development team spends every day dreaming up and developing
new tools to give our authors and publishers a competitive advantage; our service and vetting teams dedicate their days to supporting our authors, publishers and
sales channels; our merchandising team works to promote our authors at major retailers and library platforms; our marketing team focuses almost 100 % of its effort empowering indie authors with best practices knowledge they can use anywhere, even if they don't publish with Smashwords; our finance team manages the inflow and outflow of money to ensure our authors and publishers are paid on time, every month; and my wife, advisor and confidant, Lesleyann,
without whom I would have never co-written a novel about soap operas that started this grand adventure.