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Thursday, March 5th
Mar. 5th, 2015 09:32 amMy resolve to blog more missed a day yesterday after an external event that affected my schedule happened a bit earlier than expected, but I had a very good day yesterday all the same. I actually wrote 2,000 words I was happy with in the course of an hour, and I did it in the morning (well before my usual peak writing). I also wrote part of it standing up, and I think I've figured out how to easily set up a standing writing station at home, using my laptop. I couldn't spend my whole work day on my feet, but I'd like to spend less of it sitting down on days where that is possible.
Today's off to more of a mixed start. I managed to lose a block of work on a random story I started when I woke up even though I was moving it from one app that has auto save to another app that has auto save. Whoops. It was just a beginning, and it probably would have been heavily revised, but that's the sort of thing that can rob momentum.
The other thing I've done today is something I've been meaning to do for a while. I dropped the prices of the MU omnibus ebooks so they're all the same price, and all $4.99. I can't say if they'll stay at this price, or for how long. I created the omnibus project at the request of existing readers... I never expected them to appeal to people who aren't already fans, but I've found some anecdotal suggestion that 1) they are but 2) the price makes them hesitate. I could try to make a logical case for why they were worth the prices I put them at, and maybe I'd even be persuasive, but I couldn't address it to each and every person who sees it on Amazon and considers it before flinching and closing the tab.
I've often counseled other writers not to confuse the price of their work with the value of their work; I feel my work is most valued at the intersection where the most people are reading it and I'm getting the most money, not where each individual person is paying the highest possible price.
So this is an experiment. Will the lower price generate enough of a sales lift to make it worthwhile? We'll see.
Find them on Amazon here, and in my indie store here. The indie store sells multi-format bundles with formats for Kindle readers and other ebook readers, and includes two formats (HTML and PDF) that you should be able to read right on your computer just by double-clicking it. All of my ebooks no matter where you buy them are DRM free (even from Amazon). You don't just have my permission to make backups or any conversions necessary for you to enjoy them, you have my sincere belief that it's your absolute right to do so.
Today's off to more of a mixed start. I managed to lose a block of work on a random story I started when I woke up even though I was moving it from one app that has auto save to another app that has auto save. Whoops. It was just a beginning, and it probably would have been heavily revised, but that's the sort of thing that can rob momentum.
The other thing I've done today is something I've been meaning to do for a while. I dropped the prices of the MU omnibus ebooks so they're all the same price, and all $4.99. I can't say if they'll stay at this price, or for how long. I created the omnibus project at the request of existing readers... I never expected them to appeal to people who aren't already fans, but I've found some anecdotal suggestion that 1) they are but 2) the price makes them hesitate. I could try to make a logical case for why they were worth the prices I put them at, and maybe I'd even be persuasive, but I couldn't address it to each and every person who sees it on Amazon and considers it before flinching and closing the tab.
I've often counseled other writers not to confuse the price of their work with the value of their work; I feel my work is most valued at the intersection where the most people are reading it and I'm getting the most money, not where each individual person is paying the highest possible price.
So this is an experiment. Will the lower price generate enough of a sales lift to make it worthwhile? We'll see.
Find them on Amazon here, and in my indie store here. The indie store sells multi-format bundles with formats for Kindle readers and other ebook readers, and includes two formats (HTML and PDF) that you should be able to read right on your computer just by double-clicking it. All of my ebooks no matter where you buy them are DRM free (even from Amazon). You don't just have my permission to make backups or any conversions necessary for you to enjoy them, you have my sincere belief that it's your absolute right to do so.