Holidays

Prices slashed! Get ‘em now while you can! These deals won’t last forever! Yeah, that’s how I feel after cutting the prices on First and Next Time for the holidays, kind of like an ad for used car sales. I lowered them both to $0.99 USD and will be running some ads starting the 25th to get that sweet post-Christmas gift card money. I don’t plan on leaving them at that price level for very long, though, so these deals really won’t last forever. Sales have been pretty consistent since I raised the prices a few months ago, and even though the volume is down, I’m actually getting more in royalties. Not that I’m getting a ton of money, just more than the meager pittance I previously got. And this is still a pittance. When I raised the price of First to $2.99 USD, that meant the royalty rate increased to $2.10 USD per copy. So from that perspective, every copy sold paid the same amount as six copies sold at $0.99 USD, where the royalty rate is $0.35 USD per copy. Which might make you ask: why lower the price? Because the opportunity is ripe during the holidays to get my books into the hands of more readers. I’ve probably said it here before, but I’ll say it again. My goal is for people to read my books and enjoy them for that brief period of time, escaping into another world. Not for me to get rich, ‘cause that ain’t happening. The payoff is when someone tells me how much they liked the story, or the characters, and that they wish the book kept going. That’s what I’m looking for over the holidays.