When I made the announcement the other day that I would be removing my books from Amazon I honestly thought I'd go through the whole gamut of second guessing and self doubting and eventually end up changing my mind. I've waited. I've not had one single second guess. Except to why I'm waiting until they drop out of KU and not asking for them to be removed from KU.
I guess the answer to that is that I don't want to burn that bridge. One day I might change my mind. One day I might write something new and maybe we'll be in a different place politically. Who's to say.
But no. Not once have I thought this is a bad idea. Hell, I feel almost like a weight has lifted from me.
I know that I won't do well in wide release, minus Amazon. I don't do well in wide release with Amazon. And I don't do well all in at Amazon either. I haven't made more than two hundred dollars on Amazon any month this year. I used to make that a day at times.
So, yeah, I've given up trying to understand the fluke of the past. It's the market. It's oversaturated. I don't know how to get word of mouth going... blah blah blah. Or it's more nefarious than that. Word of mouth was going. People were reading my work. I just wasn't getting paid for it. And that my friends is why, ultimately, I stopped writing. When you have one too many people write you to find out where to get your books free because whatever pirate site they got the others from doesn't have the new one... y'all, if you didn't get my books from Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, or Smashwords, then you stole them. I can't help you. I offered everything in Kindle Unlimited, you could have read them free with that subscription, but you and so many others chose to devalue my work, and then got mad at me when I went bankrupt.
Publishing is a business. I can write every day, and I sometimes to, for my own entertainment, but it costs money to publish. I'd like my time to mean something. But that wasn't enough.
Anyway, that was just one of the reasons I decided to FINALLY make the decision to leave Amazon.
The other is definitely political.
And I'm okay with that.
Again, you don't have to follow suit. You can absolutely do as you please and I won't judge you. But, if there are any future books from me, they will not be there. As soon as my books fall out of KU for the final time, they will not be there. I posted the scheduled fall out dates in the previous post. You can read that.
Today, I'm spotlighting 3 books. All that will fall out early on November 23rd. And I have at least one print copy of each available to purchase from my store. Payhip link will follow. Click the covers of the books in the side bar to find the Amazon links.
Tomorrow we'll talk about other things, like... huh... not a clue.
Mercy
Find Print and other e-Books in MY PAYHIP STORE!
Happy reading
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