{"id":2176,"date":"2012-02-13T06:50:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T14:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2012-05-20T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T13:22:57","slug":"next-in-the-dakota-stevens-mystery-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/next-in-the-dakota-stevens-mystery-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Next in the Dakota Stevens Mystery Series…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in late November 2011 when I released A Real Piece of Work<\/em>, I promised to release book #2 in the series, The Rich Are Different<\/em>, once book #1 sold 1,000 copies.<\/p>\n

When I wrote that, I was convinced it would take me at least 10 months to sell that many copies (an average of 100\/month). Therefore, I would have plenty of time to give The Rich Are Different<\/em>\u00a0another polish and to format it and publish it on the Kindle platform.<\/p>\n

As most of you know, over this past weekend I had a promotion and sales bonanza, selling over 1,000 copies of A Real Piece of Work<\/em>\u00a0in three days alone. While I’m tremendously grateful for the overwhelming response, it does alter my planned timetable considerably.<\/p>\n

And so I’m here, dear reader\u2014dear fan of Dakota & Svetlana\u2014to ask for your patience.<\/p>\n

I want The Rich Are Different<\/em>\u00a0to be every bit as good as A Real Piece of Work<\/em>, and in order to ensure this, I need time\u2014time to read it again (it’s lain in a drawer for 2 years), time to revise it, and time to get it into the complicated Kindle format<\/a> for publication. I also need time for my talented cover designer, Elisabeth Pinio, to create the new cover.<\/p>\n

Ultimately I want every reader to have as enjoyable an experience with book #2 as s\/he did with book #1, and I want every reader to feel that The Rich Are Different<\/em>\u00a0stands up\u2014in entertainment value and literary quality. Getting the novel to a level of quality where I’m thoroughly satisfied with it will take me anywhere from a few months (for summer release) to several months (for holiday season release). The best answer I can give is that it will take as long as it takes.<\/p>\n

As I get further into the process of preparing The Rich Are Different<\/em>\u00a0for publication, I’ll post updates on where I am.<\/p>\n

When the cover design is complete, Elisabeth and I will release that in advance as well.<\/p>\n

For now, I’ll leave you with what I hope is a tantalizing synopsis of book #2:
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

The Rich Are Different, the second novel in Chris Orcutt\u2019s Dakota Stevens mystery series, explores the rarefied world of a Long Island heiress and her murdered brother who owned an Old West resort in Montana. Going undercover as actors in a make-believe mining town straight out of 1885, Dakota and his associate, Svetlana Kr\u00fcsh, hunt down the man\u2019s killers, discovering a mother lode of a motive in the process.<\/em><\/p>\n

Like bullets from a Gatling gun, the suspects come fast and furious: eccentric heiresses, aimless party girls, greedy CEOs, catty thespians, sexy henchwomen, angry Native Americans, mysterious mobsters, menacing mercenaries, kinky housewives and contract killers. It\u2019s a classic case of East meets West as Dakota and Svetlana follow a trail of clues that takes the reader from the urbane setting of\u00a0<\/em>The Great Gatsby\u00a0to the forbidding land of\u00a0<\/em>Pale Rider.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Back in late November 2011 when I released A Real Piece of Work, I promised to release book #2 in the series, The Rich Are Different, once book #1 sold 1,000 copies. When I wrote that, I was convinced it would take me at least 10 months to sell that many copies (an average of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30,21,8,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-real-piece-of-work","category-chris-orcutt-books","category-kindlestuff","category-publishingandthemarket","category-dakota-stevens-mysteries-series","category-the-rich-are-different"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}