![]() ![]() ![]() Today, Mountaindale Press is anything but a hobby. If you can’t get it purchased, you’re writing as a hobby.” “You need to create content because that is what actually generates money, but you also need to sell that because it doesn’t matter how amazing your book is. “With publishing, it has to be 50% art, 50% business,” Krout said over coffee at Bully Brew Coffee in East Grand Forks - his favorite place to work. The success of "Dungeon Born" inspired Krout, and after graduating from UND with a degree in computer science in 2017, he left his job as a web developer and began Mountaindale Press the following year, learning along the way the necessary business skills to develop and market his books to his growing audience. A voracious reader, he took up writing and self-published his first novel, "Dungeon Born," the first in what would become a five-book series, The Divine Dungeon. In his final two semesters at school, he was down to six or nine credits a semester and found himself with free time. Army, he was used to long days - his course loads were around 22 credits a semester. In 2016, Krout was a student at UND studying computer science. East Grand Forks-based author and business person Dakota Krout is exploring the niche genres of fantasy fiction with his newly formed publishing company Mountaindale Press his efforts landed him on ’s top 10 list for audio books in November. ![]()
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