A man trying to scuba dive in a lake of volcanic ash….

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The Warhol Gang has had a nice surge in sales since the recent release of the paperback version, and it cracked Amazon’s top 100 list for literary fiction. It was at #54 last I looked — narrowly slipping past Crime and Punishment! If it cracks the top 50, I’m going to something crazy to celebrate. Like maybe go outside.

Do you

a) Try to escape the mall shooters?

b) Give up and eat your Starbucks Eurodinner?

$3.99.

If you’ve been following this blog, you know I’ve been experimenting with the price of the Please ebook to find the ideal price to attract new readers, raising and lowering it like a seismograph. OK, a seismograph that moves between $2.99 and $4.99.

A lot of indie writers think $2.99 is the perfect price for ebooks, with the occasional dip into 99 cents to generate publicity and drive sales. This isn’t the case for Please. Sales were slow but steady when I initially set the price at $3.99. When I dropped the price to $2.99, sales dropped as well. “Oh ho!” I thought. “My readers don’t trust lower prices and want to pay top dollar for quality writing. I am the scotch of literature!” So I raised the price to $4.99. And sales dropped again. Maybe my readers are just hung over.

So, for whatever reason, the ideal price for Please seems to be $3.99. And that’s where I’ll leave it. I’m done experimenting with price for that book. Now I’m just going to wait for riches and fame.

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Still waiting….

I received my box of author’s copies from HarperCollins today, so the paperbacks of The Warhol Gang should be hitting the stores any day now. Also, it’s always fun to open a box of your own books!

I offer up a few quotes for a Globe piece about how Harlequin is revolutionizing the e-book market. I wish I could quit you, Harlequin.

Please is one of the featured books over at the new site The Book Review for Fiction – ‘ebooks for serious readers.’

I’ve always had a soft spot for Tintin comics. Yes, yes, I know some people have problems with their politics, but they’re one of the first things I remember reading, and they kickstarted my imagination as a kid. The moon! He goes to the moon! I sometimes wish there were more of them, so this series of mock Tintin covers is bittersweet.

A detail of the Gaudi church in Barcelona, run through the Plastic Bullet app. I like the way this one turned out.