Comments on: IndieJourney: Thomas Lloyd Qualls http://indiereader.com/2011/01/indiejourney-thomas-lloyd-qualls/ Self-Published Books Reviews, News, and More Fri, 17 May 2013 15:46:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Leland Shanle http://indiereader.com/2011/01/indiejourney-thomas-lloyd-qualls/#comment-1010 Leland Shanle Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:20:50 +0000 http://builtbytyler.com/client/indiereader/blog/?p=207#comment-1010 I have gone full circle: POD, Agent, fired Agent, Traditional publisher, fired each other; and now back to being on my own. I started my own house/LLC; bought a block of ISBN's and have published myself via Lightning source. After ten years- of many of the same interests and distractions. I have come full circle. I do not think I would go back to traditional publishing- of course I can be bought. My experience is that I have sold more books in the last 2 months than I did in 4 years in hard cover with a traditional house. E-books are revolutionizing the industry; as a bonus the author gets most of the cash. I'm not ready to quit my day job, however once I get my 3rd and 4th novel on line, if sales are similar then it at least will be financially worth the effort. To be honest the only reason I published in paper at all was for reviews/signings etc. My ratio is close to 100 - 1; e to paper. http://www.amazon.com/Vengeance-Midway-Guadalcanal-novel-ebook/dp/B004NNVCMU/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2 Marketing is indeed the hardest part. Facebook, twitter, website, stumbleupon, blah, blah, blah. I also did a movie short on youtube. I have been able to keep my latest consistently in the top 1-2% of on kindle/Amazon; however getting over the hump (going viral) has remained elusive. I don't much like being a "Book Whore"; but it is what it is. At least you can hide behind a computer screen these days. I have gone full circle: POD, Agent, fired Agent, Traditional publisher, fired each other; and now back to being on my own. I started my own house/LLC; bought a block of ISBN’s and have published myself via Lightning source. After ten years- of many of the same interests and distractions. I have come full circle.

I do not think I would go back to traditional publishing- of course I can be bought. My experience is that I have sold more books in the last 2 months than I did in 4 years in hard cover with a traditional house. E-books are revolutionizing the industry; as a bonus the author gets most of the cash. I’m not ready to quit my day job, however once I get my 3rd and 4th novel on line, if sales are similar then it at least will be financially worth the effort.

To be honest the only reason I published in paper at all was for reviews/signings etc. My ratio is close to 100 – 1; e to paper. http://www.amazon.com/Vengeance-Midway-Guadalcanal-novel-ebook/dp/B004NNVCMU/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Marketing is indeed the hardest part. Facebook, twitter, website, stumbleupon, blah, blah, blah. I also did a movie short on youtube. I have been able to keep my latest consistently in the top 1-2% of on kindle/Amazon; however getting over the hump (going viral) has remained elusive. I don’t much like being a “Book Whore”; but it is what it is. At least you can hide behind a computer screen these days.

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