I’m spending Thanksgiving with my parents this year, which means I’m leaving for Massachusetts tomorrow…by train.\u00a0 Well, technically, Sunday morning, since the cross-country trains come through Salt Lake City in the wee hours, but to my way of thinking it’s tomorrow and not Sunday.\u00a0 Either way, I won’t be posting anything until Tuesday night, since that’s when I arrive.<\/p>\n
You may have noticed that Amazon recently bumped the price of my two short stories, “Memoirs of a Snowflake<\/a>“<\/strong> and “Decision LZ1527<\/a>,”<\/strong> back up to $.99.\u00a0 I decided to raise the price because giving them away for free wasn’t having any sort of effect on sales of my other novels.\u00a0 Sure, it exposed my work to more readers, but I want to be known for my science fiction series, not because of a couple of cute stories that aren’t a whole lot like anything else I’ve written.<\/p>\n However, after reading Kris Rusch’s recent post on this subject<\/a>, I decided to drop the price of Sholpan<\/a><\/strong> to free for the next couple months.\u00a0 Sholpan<\/strong> is a novella taken from Bringing Stella Home<\/strong>, and is a great place to start for my Gaia Nova series.\u00a0 It’s a complete story on its own, but I’m hoping it will drive interest in the full length novel, and later in Desert Stars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If the price dropping process is anything like it was for the short stories, though, it will be a while before Sholpan<\/strong> is free across all platforms.\u00a0 Amazon doesn’t allow you to set the price to free yourself; you have to get all the other places to do it first, so that Amazon’s bots will detect it and price match.\u00a0 To do that, you have to drop the price on Smashwords first and wait for it to trickle down.<\/p>\n In short, it will probably take three to five weeks for Amazon to make Sholpan<\/strong> free.\u00a0 Hopefully it’ll happen in time for the holiday season, and probably for a month or two afterward.<\/p>\n In the meantime, I just noticed that “Memoirs of a Snowflake<\/a>“<\/strong> is on both the science fiction anthology and fantasy anthology top 100 lists on Amazon.\u00a0 Woot!\u00a0 It’s not going as fast as it was when it was free (I think I’ve had just five sales in the past 48 hours), but it’s still going.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how long it holds up; it would be awesome to crack the top 10 on either of those categories!<\/p>\n And that’s about it.\u00a0 I’ll leave you with the following quote:<\/p>\n All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.<\/p>\n –Martin Buber<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m spending Thanksgiving with my parents this year, which means I’m leaving for Massachusetts tomorrow…by train.\u00a0 Well, technically, Sunday morning, since the cross-country trains come through Salt Lake City in the wee hours, but to my way of thinking it’s tomorrow and not Sunday.\u00a0 Either way, I won’t be posting anything until Tuesday night, since… Continue reading Random updates before leaving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,541,170],"tags":[560,515,133,584,530,148],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-sholpan-novella","category-short-stories","tag-ebook-pricing","tag-ebooks","tag-family","tag-free","tag-kris-rusch","tag-travel","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1Hc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}