If you haven't checked lately my book, Two Sides of a Cypress Wall, currently ranks #3,505,574 on Amazon, but a slightly more respectable #246,874 in the Kindle Store. I recently lowered the electronic price to .99 and since then I've had several people tell me that they've added it to their digital collections. Thanks to all of you.
Over the last 14 months Jerry Simmons of the INDI Publishing Group has worked on my behalf to broaden my reach. I received a tiny royalty check last summer, but not too long after that Jerry informed me that he was parting ways with the distribution company he was working with and that meant I'd have to find a new partner as well. Jerry researched several worthwhile options for me, but I decided that it'd be best for me to retake control of the inventory. Sometime soon, the roughly 450 copies that have been residing in a Kansas City warehouse will be shipped to El Paso.
So in a way, I've come full circle. On August 31, 2007 I received the first of about 300 copies from Gary Johnson at Post Printing in Memphis. As longtime supporters may recall, I sold those via PayPal on a pro version of this Web site. Thanks to family and friends, those moved fairly quickly, but shortly thereafter the reality of selling 1,000 copies of an unknown book from an unknown author set in. Between the first distributor I signed with, Blu Sky Media, (who went out of business about six months after I signed) and INDI Publishing another 300 or so copies have been sold to a variety of online and offline retailers. Now, I'll have the opportunity to find readers for the stragglers. If you're in a book club, my calendar is open and I don't charge an appearance fee!
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