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On ESA need advice about Amazon

Hello, hope you're all well. I'm legally blind and use a screen reader so please excuse any mistakes.  I also have high anexty so if I ramble, I apologise / 

I'd like to be off benefits one day. I want to better my life and just.. be happy. I was thinking I could release low content books on Amazon. Things such as journals and note books. I would then hopefully be able to use any money made from that to pay for editors and covers for fiction books.  And if the amount I earn came to the same amount as my ESA I'd obviously stop claiming. I don't know how long this would take and I'm afraid they'll cut me off. I have pets I need to feed. 

I'm aware I can work less than 16 hours a week and earn less than 143 a week while on ESA. (I doubt I'll make anywhere near that amount, especially in the beginning. But my worry is that they won't allow the selling on Amazon. That it won't be a type of work they allow. 

I don't know when to tell them? Do I upload and then tell them if I get any sales? 
I worry that if they so no, they may think I'm capable of other types of work which I'm not. Last time I had to go the job centre I had a panic attack and vomited over the woman's desk. 

Can anyone give advice or tell me if similar situations they may have been in? As I said, I want to better my life; I don't want to be on Benefits forever: I don't want to worry all the time. 

Thank you for reading.    

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