I'm not sure there's a good reason to go with an Indy publisher these days. Self publishing is stupidly easy and a heck of a lot more profitable. My Amazon #50,

I'm not sure there's a good reason to go with an Indy publisher these days. Self publishing is stupidly easy and a heck of a lot more profitable. My Amazon #50,000 seller[1] has earned me over $2,000 so far and of course nobody ever wrote an article about my little book. If I'd had his publishing deal I expect I'd have exactly the same amount of publicity but have earned maybe $600 or so. And I wouldn't have been getting monthly checks within three months of sale as I do by directly publishing. [1] This fluctuates wildly, of course. Right now I'm around #18,000 thanks to giving away 3,000 free copies of the book over two days, but just before the promo I was at #400,000. Point is I've never been anywhere visible on any lists. (His point stands that simply being a best seller isn't automatically quit-the-day-job money, but at least if you self publish you control your costs and most of what money you do earn.)