Um, strictly speaking, you get a discount of 57.22460658083%…
David Trevor here, and I’ll keep this short and sweet. LB’s accountant told the Great Man that we ought to increase the price on our Matthew Scudder ebooks. “They’re too low,” she told us. “They’re $6.99, and they should be $7.99.”
I asked LB if I should raise the prices.
“Lower them,” he said. I started to say something. He cut me off. “Everything’s a mess,” he said, “and people need something to read. We control the prices of four Scudder books. Cut ’em to $2.99 for a week, and let our friends know about it. Then you can make our accountant happy by boosting them to $7.99, but in the meantime our newsletter and blog followers can save a few bucks.”
Done.
This is a Kindle-only deal, because that’s the simplest way for me to handle it. The four books are A Stab in the Dark, A Walk Among the Tombstones, A Long Line of Dead Men, and The Night and the Music. (HarperCollins still controls rights and pricing of the other books in the series.)
The low price of $2.99 is in effect now, and I’ll keep it there through the end of the month. (Uh, that would be July.)
See? Short and sweet, like I said. No pictures, no templates with falling leaves. And I’d leave it at that, except we got another really nice review for Dead Girl Blues a week ago and never did anything with it, so here it is, from Andres Kabel:
“Lawrence Block is a master at what one might call philosophical noir, dark thrillers that hinge on explorations of the mysteries of good and evil and human motivations. Dead Girl Blues, Block’s first full-length work for a number of years, launches with a gut-wrenching tale of evil, and then settles into an ooze of tension: will justice prevail or will evil recur or is there another available path? Written in a voice at once deadpan and endlessly reflective, the tale ratchets up tension not through action but through dialogue (and Block is superb at this) and rumination. In the end, I was not sure whether Dead Girl Blues resolved satisfactorily, and part of the philosophical heft of the book is just that quandary. In conclusion, not typical noir at all, not a pell-mell thriller, but a slow-burn, tense read best savoured.”
What can I say? I just felt the need to share that with you. Now go load up your Kindle with Matthew Scudder. You can thank me later.
Cheers,
David Trevor for
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Thanks for the heads-up on the deal. I own the hard copies and will now have the inexpensive e-versions.
BTW, I found Dead Girl Blues to be captivating. Evil beautifully written. Thanks, LB…you’re the best.
Thanks, Alan!