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Quan Millz is out to make a buck, one street lit book at a time

His writing is meant to flip you out and put some cash in his pocket.
Quan Millz is an urban fiction writer.

Quan Millz knows that his writing is provocative. That's the whole point.

With titles like "Pregnant By My Mother's Gay Husband" and "My Pastor Got A Stripper Pregnant," the self-published Millz has carved a very specific niche in the urban fiction space.

"I decided to try to experiment with different titles that were like very on the nose, very controversial, salacious that I just knew would just grab people's attention. And it worked," Millz told NPR.

When Millz commissioned his first book, "Ran Off on the Plug Twice" – named after a popular rap song of the time – he never really expected the novel to gain much traction.

He had just been let go from a job at a Chicago law firm and was feeling burned out from the corporate scene.

"At first I was like, you know, I'm not doing that. That's weird," Millz said of writing

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