The Crazy Life of An Author
This week, the Based Book Sale is offering a Based Book Romance Sale.
This sale was my idea, and I spent two whole days preparing it, deciding where to put each of more than 100 books, choosing pretty romantasies to showcase on top.
The sale went live this morning. Then, disaster struck!
I get a call, two hours after I went to sleep, from our host…all the links on the first half dozen books are dead. If you follow them, they go to an Amazon page that says Sorry that the book cannot be found but tries to console you with a picture of a dog.
This affected 26 of our nearly 70 authors.
Turns out, possibly because of Prime Day, Amazon purged a whole bunch of novels. Two were definitely purged for breaking their rules and enrolling in Kindle Unlimited while also loading the book on other platforms. KU requires exclusivity.
All those pretty romantasies I had featured for the first day?
Gone.
What a sad thing for these authors who were so excited about this sale. What a sad thing for me who wasted sooooo much time.
The good news is the actual sf and fantasy romances and love stories are still there (including a few of my and John’s books on sale in the Love Story category)
Anyway…thus goes the unpredictable life of an author.
PS. A fan of romance? You can find the sale here.
I hear you. I was one of the people looking forward to this event. I priced my book at $0.99 specifically for this event because I saw that previous events were successful, so I hoped to find new readers for my book. But unfortunately, Amazon decided to remove my book on the very day of the event. Now I checked, and everything seems fine again, with the link working properly, but the damage is done. And all I got was a half-hearted apology from Amazon.