Sounds like I'm talking about vampires, doesn't it?
Alas, I'm only talking about the link to His Magical Pet. My publisher ran into some trouble with Amazon over what basically boils down to semantics. Here's what she says:
Amazon has suspended my entire author account due to the paperback of His Magical Pet. I am trying to get it restored now.
Apparently it violated Amazon guidelines on metadata, which require that they say “collection” not anthology - Amazon in its infinite wisdom does not recognize anthology as a valid label. They also need the author names on the covers. (The names need to match the listed names and Amazon will only allow ten listed names, so not all authors can be listed on the cover of Her Magical Pet SORRY.)
Once I get my account back, I have to unpublish both books, then re-publish them with corrected covers. This unfortunately will break all links to the books and delete all reviews.
I'm really sorry about this. Working with Amazon is definitely like doing a deal with the Devil. On the plus side, the anthologies have made nearly $1000 in less than a month!
A thousand bucks so far! That's a silver lining at least. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this charity COLLECTION (since apparently we can't call it an anthology any more,) but for those who still want to buy it, PLEASE BE PATIENT. My publisher will get it back up and running ASAP, though we will lose those precious first reviews--so, if you were one of those early reviews? Please consider posting again once we have everything straightened? It would be a great help.
