{"id":3504,"date":"2012-11-20T12:18:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2012-11-20T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T13:52:50","slug":"thanks-for-the-incredible-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/thanks-for-the-incredible-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for the Incredible Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little more than a year ago, I published\u00a0A Real Piece of Work<\/em> for the Kindle, not for a second anticipating the terrific success the book would have.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In fact, when I published it, my\u00a0only\u00a0hope was to sell 1,000 copies, at which time I would release the second novel<\/a>,\u00a0The Rich Are Different<\/em>. I thought it would take a year to sell that many copies. Instead, it took three months.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0A Real Piece of Work<\/em><\/a> available for FREE<\/a> for one day only\u2014on Tuesday, November 20. Tell all of your friends.<\/p>\n

So, how has this been an incredible year for me?<\/p>\n

Well, first, I sold\u00a0thousands<\/em> of copies of\u00a0A Real Piece of Work<\/em>, not just the 1,000 I hoped for. Thank you for spreading the word about the book and for continuing to publicize it.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The\u00a0reviews of both books have been stellar, with\u00a0A Real Piece of Work<\/em> 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<\/a>\u00a0and The Kindle Book Review<\/a>. I want to give a special thanks to the two reviewers,\u00a0Maya Fleischmann and Rachel Abbott: your kind and generous reviews of the novel really helped. Thank you.<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0A Real Piece of Work<\/em> or\u00a0The Rich Are Different<\/em>. Great for plane and train trips, and for people stuck away from home. \u00a0;)<\/p>\n

I sincerely wish you and yours an enjoyable Thanksgiving and a joyous holiday season.<\/p>\n

\u2014Chris Orcutt<\/p>\n

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A little more than a year ago, I published\u00a0A 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\u00a0only\u00a0hope was to sell 1,000 copies, at which time I would release the second novel,\u00a0The Rich Are Different. I thought it … 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-3504","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\/3504","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=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}