{"id":1657,"date":"2011-06-22T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T00:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2011-06-22T20:31:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T00:31:47","slug":"locke-on-an-indie-joining-the-kindle-million-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/locke-on-an-indie-joining-the-kindle-million-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Locke On An Indie Joining the Kindle Million Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Michael Connelly and... John Locke?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"l1\" href=\"http:\/\/kindlenationdaily.com\/2011\/06\/kindle-million-locke-hocking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Absolutely - John Locke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Locke is a 60-year-old man from Louisville, Kentucky with a background in business and private investments who\u00a0has sold more than a million copies of his 9 western\/crime novellas.\u00a0 He\u00a0only charges 99 cents but <a title=\"l2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/8589963\/Self-publishing-writer-becomes-million-seller.html\" target=\"_blank\">sells a copy about every 7 seconds. <\/a>\u00a0And Locke performed his amazing feat of sales wizardry in only 5 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Locke has now written a new book that will likely fly off the virtual shelves faster than any of his other titles - <a title=\"l3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/8589963\/Self-publishing-writer-becomes-million-seller.html\" target=\"_blank\">\"How I Sold 1 Million eBooks In 5 Months.\" \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 Achieving such success is amazing.\u00a0\u00a0Having a spirit generous enough to help others join you proves that Locke is in it for much more than the money.<\/p>\n<p>Dig it?\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 Locke's success proves that even if you aren't a spring chicken, if you write what people want to read and sell it for a fair price you can achieve any dream.\u00a0 Even - possibly - financial security for a family with\u00a0a job that is more dream than work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A million cheers\u00a0to John Locke for his membership in one of the most exclusive clubs in the world.\u00a0 And a million thanks to him for proving that indies can run with the big boys and girls\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My sales have been going up each month as I work more on social networking and marketing. I've discovered that it's easier to sell books if people know you have books for sale. \u00a0But I'm still a mighty, mighty (did I say mighty?) long way from Mr. Locke's Million Club achievement.\u00a0 I guess I'll have to pick up a copy of his book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Michael Connelly and... John Locke?\u00a0 Absolutely - John Locke. Locke is a 60-year-old man from Louisville, Kentucky with a background in business and private investments who\u00a0has sold more than a million copies of his 9 western\/crime novellas.\u00a0 He\u00a0only charges 99 cents but sells a copy about every 7 seconds. \u00a0And Locke <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/locke-on-an-indie-joining-the-kindle-million-club\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Locke On An Indie Joining the Kindle Million Club\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}