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Musician’s self-published titles are hits

By Megan McKee

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 12, 2012

For 10 years, Justin Locke, a former Boston Pops freelance bassist, played the book publishing lottery and lost. Hundreds of rejections from literary agents instilled a dread of getting the mail. Then finally, a few years ago, he took control of his lifelong dream to write and has forged a path in self-publishing that’s helped him sell almost 5,000 copies of his two books- a success by any publishing standard.

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