Progress and warning

Okay, I seem to have made a little progress with Amazon. They emailed me (twice) saying they are investigating and will contact me in 5 working days.

My advice to anyone out there who publishes under a publisher – get a copy of the contract signed by both parties and make sure there is a clause in the contract that if the company goes under, rights revert to you.

Luckily, even though my publisher just went silent and, in today’s terms, ghosted all of his writers, I, with a friend I reached out to, were able to find details where he said the publishing company ended in November 2022. We were also able to find official records that say the publisher actually went into involuntary liquidation in 2021. I have not supplied that to Amazon as yet, but I have supplied them with the details of November 2022. Thus, it is a waiting game.

Regardless of whether I publish Clans in Conflict or Consequences on Amazon or not, I will revert Dark Dimensions to two parts because it is a rather epic-size and I have the two covers for it.

I will be going what self-publishers call “wide” instead of limiting myself to ebooks. I have enough ISBNs to provide paperbacks as well as ebooks, so I’ve decided at this late stage, it’s better to put both out. I won’t be putting out hardcovers, however, unless people specifically want hardcovers.

I have also paused writing in both Clans in Conflict and Consequences until this issue with Amazon is resolved, however, I have been exploring other books, including a private investigator story set in Albermarle, so there are quite a few cross-overs with her due to the size of the kingdom.

I am also working on the story of a young manipulator of quantum energies which I alluded to a few posts ago. Still got more to go with that one, but it is progressing.

On a personal note, we sold our caravan earlier this year and managed to pay off a few huge debts, including our car. So, that is a huge weight off our shoulders.

That’s about all I have, so back into it and talk in another 2 weeks’ time!