{"id":7328,"date":"2015-12-28T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:06:47","slug":"a-real-piece-of-work-now-only-99%c2%a2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/a-real-piece-of-work-now-only-99%c2%a2\/","title":{"rendered":"A REAL PIECE OF WORK \u2014 NOW ONLY 99\u00a2!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ARPoW_Cover_1600pxh_300dpi\"Today I decided to price A Real Piece of Work<\/em>, the 1st novel in my critically acclaimed Dakota Stevens Mystery Series, at just 99\u00a2. This price will remain in effect for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

This marketing\/promotion strategy worked for an author colleague\u00a0in 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\u00a2), so I’m hoping this might have the same effect for me.<\/p>\n

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With enough sales, I’ll finally be able to afford my dream home\u2014the Chatsworth Estate in England. :)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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<\/a>, “Crazy Eddie…our prices are inSANE!”<\/p>\n

Well, only time will tell if my pricing\u00a0A Real Piece of Work<\/em> at only 99\u00a2 is insane or not, but for the foreseeable future\u00a0I’m going to try it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I decided to price A Real Piece of Work, the 1st novel in my critically acclaimed Dakota Stevens Mystery Series, at just 99\u00a2. 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,16,247,246,249,30,244,251,245,56,250,248,8,11],"tags":[263,252,253,242,124,266,267,254,268,256,264,255,262,98,165,161,163,265,269,133,134,257,258,159,259,261,260,150],"class_list":["post-7328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-99cents","category-a-real-piece-of-work","category-amazon-kindle","category-apple-ibooks","category-barnes-and-noble-nook","category-chris-orcutt-books","category-ebooks","category-google-play-books","category-kindle","category-kindle-books","category-kobo-books","category-nook","category-publishingandthemarket","category-dakota-stevens-mysteries-series","tag-99-cents","tag-99c","tag-99cents","tag-a-real-piece-of-work","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-kindle","tag-apple-ibooks","tag-bargain","tag-barnes-and-noble-nook","tag-bestseller","tag-book-1","tag-critically-acclaimed","tag-dakota","tag-dakota-stevens","tag-ebooks","tag-google-play","tag-ibooks","tag-kindle","tag-kobo-books","tag-mysteries","tag-mystery","tag-mystery-novel","tag-mystery-series","tag-nook","tag-pi","tag-private-detective","tag-private-investigator","tag-svetlana-krush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328","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=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9887,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions\/9887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}