Thanks for the Incredible Year

A lit­tle more than a year ago, I pub­lished A Real Piece of Work for the Kin­dle, not for a sec­ond antic­i­pat­ing the ter­rif­ic suc­cess the book would have.

In fact, when I pub­lished it, my only hope was to sell 1,000 copies, at which time I would release the sec­ond nov­el, The Rich Are Dif­fer­ent. I thought it would take a year to sell that many copies. Instead, it took three months.

This has been an incred­i­ble year for me, and it’s all been because of you read­ers. As my way of say­ing thanks (this is Thanks­giv­ing week, after all), I am mak­ing A Real Piece of Work avail­able for FREE for one day only—on Tues­day, Novem­ber 20. Tell all of your friends.

So, how has this been an incred­i­ble year for me?

Well, first, I sold thou­sands of copies of A Real Piece of Work, not just the 1,000 I hoped for. Thank you for spread­ing the word about the book and for con­tin­u­ing to pub­li­cize it.

The excel­lent sales made it pos­si­ble for my wife and me to ful­fill a dream I’ve had for over 20 years: to go to Paris. I wrote about the two-week trip at length here.

The reviews of both books have been stel­lar, with A Real Piece of Work hav­ing just reached one hun­dred 5‑star reviews. Besides the prais­ing reviews by you, Dear Read­er, there have been rav­ing pro­fes­sion­al reviews, includ­ing ones by IndieRead­er and The Kin­dle Book Review. I want to give a spe­cial thanks to the two review­ers, Maya Fleis­chmann and Rachel Abbott: your kind and gen­er­ous reviews of the nov­el real­ly helped. Thank you.

There has also been some pub­lic­i­ty about me and my work, includ­ing news­pa­per arti­cles and a lengthy inter­view. Not to men­tion some fun film footage about my predilec­tion for type­writ­ers by my best friend, doc­u­men­tar­i­an Jason Scott.

It’s been an incred­i­ble year all around, and I’m hop­ing that sales of both nov­els will be strong through the hol­i­days. If you know any­one trav­el­ing who might want a good read, con­sid­er sug­gest­ing A Real Piece of Work or The Rich Are Dif­fer­ent. Great for plane and train trips, and for peo­ple stuck away from home.  ;)

I sin­cere­ly wish you and yours an enjoy­able Thanks­giv­ing and a joy­ous hol­i­day sea­son.

—Chris Orcutt

 

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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