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