CHELSEA BANNING’S JOURNEY through writing and self-publishing Of Crowns and Legends, her first book, is not unfamiliar: ups and downs, stops and starts, and learning the business from the ground up. It was in promoting her novel that Banning happened on a road far less traveled.
The 33-year-old Ohio-based writer demonstrated how using social media can (with a stroke of luck, she says) pay off.
