U.L. Harper Joins .99 Cents Club With In Blackness

Well, I’m going to do it or did it, whichever way you want to look at it.

I had been holding back but I’m just curious. What happens to my novel once I start selling it for .99 cents? And I am selling it for .99 cents now.

Honestly, I have reservations about selling it for such a cheap price. At $2.99 I’m going to get my share of sales. If for no other reason, it’s because it’s $2.99. Quite the affordable price. I’ve even experimented with the .99 cents price on other titles, but I didn’t bother to tell anyone I was selling those titles. I was already pushing my new novel In Blackness for $2.99. And who wants a distraction?

To be real, I have two basic thoughts on selling my books for .99 cents. First of all, I worked too hard on them to sell them for such a small price. That’s a simple enough idea. Second of all, I have the same fear of selling my electronic book for .99 cents as I do for giving it away. Deep down I believe there’s a good chance that people are downloading it out of convenience and then not reading it. The same people who download mine also download dozens of other books for .99 cents. In other words, the real fear is that they’ll never get to mine. Or they will a year or so from now, after I get hit by a car or catch some disease or the Earth blows up, or something like that.

One more fear. I’m scared to death that readers reading books for .99 cents are looking for quick pulp reads. I’m not necessarily ready to submit In Blackness to the genre of quick pulp reads, hell, even if that’s what it is. I’m not saying it is or isn’t by the way. I’m saying I’m not necessarily ready to put it there myself.

With all that being said, this is the real world. An author has to find their market, and right now I can’t say I’ve experimented with everything yet. I truly thought In Blackness was merely a literature novel with sci-fi/horror elements spliced in. I’ll stick by that thought. However, judging by reader reviews, it’s clearly the opposite—a sci-fi/horror novel with literary elements. So keeping that in mind, I may think my book is clearly meant to be sold for $2.99, but for all I know, electronically, it might just be .99 cents.

At least through October and November.

So here goes.

In Blackness is ready to download to your favorite electronic reading device at Smashwords.com for .99 cents. In a few weeks it shall be available to wherever Smashwords.com distributes, for the same price. Even now it's equally as cheap at Amazon.com, specifically for the kindle. One could always buy the paper book for $16 and change but I’m sure that’s a whole other conversation.

Now let’s have some fun. Stop by the In Blackness page on Goodreads.com and check out some reviews and what not and then decide if you want to splurge and pick up my book for a dollar. In case you didn't know, In Blackness is about two young adults trying to overcome their parents’ sudden death but find themselves on a journey to discover more than they could possibly imagine. On their trek, they discover something that will change the paradigm of how the world thinks, and they discover it, In Blackness. On my goodreads.com profile page or at ulharper.com you can check out the promo video.

And for all of you who have read it and enjoyed it, if you could just like this post or leave a comment of some sort, well, it wouldn’t hurt.

Thanks and best wishes, U.L. Harper.