Dear Readers,
After having my books at Amazon since 2013, my novels are now removed from not only Amazon, but all major sellers with the exception of Smashwords.
The straw that broke the camel’s back happened this week. I went into my KDP Dashboard to find that Angel’s Guardian, my most popular novel (published in 2016) has been blocked by Amazon. While he book is blocked, I cannot even unpublish it!
Supposedly, I should have received an email informing me. They sent no such thing. I very respectfully sent them an email asking why my book was blocked but have received no response in two days.
Angel’s Guardian is Book 1 in the trilogy. I quickly unpublished the other books before I lose control of them. As an author, I cannot allow others to control my work. My books from now on will be available only at my own site and on Smashwords. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple are no longer viable publishers for me.
I imagine the blocking is due to a few scenes having sexual content and a scene at the beginning of the book which depicts sexual violence. This scene is not a glorification of rape. It’s an intrinsic scene to the theme of the novel and to the vigilante character of the main male character (MMC). I will not remove any scenes just to please the tiny minds that reject reality and relevance in our genre literature.
The good news is that at my website, you can get the best deals. I will not have the visibility I had at Amazon, but I will have total control over my books.