Need advice on how to become a published Author in India and the process involved ?

Need advice on how to become a published Author in India and the process involved ?
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There’s no money in being published by a publishing house these days unless you’re a world-famous author who has been on Oprah. Even award-winning writers with critical acclaim starve in the post-literate era in which we live. About the only way to make money writing fiction these days is to self-publish through a vanity press. Because there’s no hard costs involved (using either e-publishing or print-on-demand) and there are no layers of middle-man parasites between you and your buyers, you don’t need to sell a million copies to make money.
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