title: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide To Publishing Books, Articles & Other Content For The Amazon Kindle: Creating Your Own Success Story With New Technologies
author:  Stephen Windwalker 
description: Stephen Windwalker writes the indieKindle blog and is the author of several books and numerous short-form pieces of fiction and nonfiction, some under his real name. He has worked as a community organizer, fruit picker, bean counter, sports writer, dishwasher, publishing industry executive, elected official, sandwich maker, and bookseller, among other things. Windwalker attended and eventually graduated from Harvard College with the help of a full scholarship. While an undergraduate he served as fiction editor of the Harvard Advocate and studied with Monroe Engel, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Robert Lowell, and Carter Wilson. He lives near Boston and is astonished by the fact that he is the author of one of the top selling titles in the Amazon Kindle store.
zlib_text: #  The Cristero War: The History and Legacy of the Major Religious Uprising in
  Mexico
  
  By Charles River Editors
  
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  #  About Charles River Editors
  
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