A REAL PIECE OF WORK — NOW ONLY 99¢!

ARPoW_Cover_1600pxh_300dpiToday I decid­ed to price A Real Piece of Work, the 1st nov­el in my crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed Dako­ta Stevens Mys­tery Series, at just 99¢. This price will remain in effect for the fore­see­able future.

I’m hop­ing that avid mys­tery read­ers, reluc­tant to pay full price for the first nov­el in a series, will find the series more attrac­tive if they can get the first nov­el for a bar­gain. Such is the plan.

And as a char­ac­ter in one of my favorite films, The Edge (writ­ten by David Mamet) says, “A good plan today is bet­ter than a per­fect plan tomor­row.”

This marketing/promotion strat­e­gy worked for an author col­league in the sus­pense genre, turn­ing her into a full-time best­seller. Before that hap­pened, she sold over 100,000 copies of the first nov­el in her bur­geon­ing series (at 99¢), so I’m hop­ing this might have the same effect for me.

With enough sales, I'll finally be able to afford my dream home—the Chatsworth Estate in England. :)

With enough sales, I’ll final­ly be able to afford my dream home—the Chatsworth Estate in Eng­land. :)

In the 1980s, res­i­dents of the New York Tri-State Area will remem­ber the com­mer­cials for Crazy Eddie, a local elec­tron­ics chain. He always end­ed his com­mer­cials with the tag line, “Crazy Eddie…our prices are inSANE!”

Well, only time will tell if my pric­ing A Real Piece of Work at only 99¢ is insane or not, but for the fore­see­able future I’m going to try it.

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By Chris Orcutt

CHRIS ORCUTT is an American novelist and fiction writer with over 30 years' writing experience and more than a dozen books in his oeuvre. Since 2015, Chris been working exclusively on his magnum opus. Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome: The Legendary Adventures of Avery “Ace” Craig is a 9-episode novel about teens in the 1980s. It’s about ’80s teens, but for adults (in other words, it’s decidedly not YA literature), and he’s applied this epic storytelling approach to the least examined, most misunderstood, most marginalized narrative space in American literature: the lives and inner worlds of teenagers.

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