Author Finds Publishing Success, With Help from Intelligent Office

The Cambodia-born son of a Chinese merchant may seem an unusual candidate to become a novelist and magazine publisher in Atlanta but Richard Quan has been bucking trends for decades. He sold books door-to-door one summer during college then studied International Human Rights and Refugee Law at Oxford University after graduate school. It was after earning a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Temple University that Quan moved to New York City to work for an immigration law firm. In 2005 Quan moved back to Atlanta, his hometown, and opened his own publishing company, Q Vision Press & Multimedia, Inc.

After publishing his first novel, Siren’s Silence, in 2006, Quan used his experience to further fuel the efforts of Q Vision Press and Multimedia.

“When I formed Q Vision Press, we were originally just doing book publishing but now we have expanded to multimedia production,” explained Quan. “The multimedia aspect deals with communication arts, photography and graphic design.”

Quan works with small businesses and independent professionals who require a strong visual image to communicate the value of their products and services. Currently that includes consumer products as well as professional services like commercial real estate photography. His long-term aspirations for the company include doing fashion photography for models and supermodels.

“We create institutional brochures, posters, logos, catalogs and basically anything that has to do with fine arts and illustration,” continues Quan.

But it is the launch of his most recent business venture that is keeping Quan busy. Impact Times (www.impacttimes.com), a general interest magazine, went online earlier this year. The concept of the publication is intentionally different from other magazines.

“I’d done book signings for the past two years during which I was studying the needs of the magazine audience,” explains Quan. “What I found was that people didn’t have time to read all of the specialty magazines in most bookstores. Instead we are giving them a single destination filled with quick reads that allow them to gain insight on their choice of subjects.”

Quan took an innovative approach to acquiring the content: he capitalized on the vast network of writers and business associates he had built on MySpace while promoting his novel.

“In the past MySpace wasn’t viewed as a legitimate marketing tool but that situation has changed,” stated Quan.

Over the past year Quan has accumulated close to 1000 contacts on his page, www.myspace.com/richard_novelist. He credits his success to presenting a professional approach and then actively seeking relationships with other high profile authors and business professional. Now he has relationships with experts who can cover topics varying from literature and business to fine arts and religion.

Initially all of the authors are contributing for the exposure but Quan hopes to soon build a saleable enterprise. Writers can upload their complete bios along with their article and of course Quan also promotes the publication via a separate MySpace site at www.myspace.com/impacttimes.

How does Intelligent Office fit into this virtual publishing world?

Quan has been a client of Intelligent Office since living in New York and transferred his membership in the Intelligent Office family to Atlanta in 2001. He uses them for both professional address services as well as voice mail and to receive faxes.

For additional information about Q Vision Press and Multimedia, Inc. or to inquire about contributing an article to Impact Times, email richard@qvisionpress.com.