As many of you may (or may not know), book stuffing is a widespread problem on the Amazon KU market. If you haven't seen the discussions about book stuffing on social media or are not sure what exactly book stuffing is, you can get a good primer from authors who have been vocal about it. "Book Stuffing" + Google is your friend.

Amazon is slowly starting to react to the problem, but it appears that offenders on KU grow faster than mogwai thrown into a full bathtub of water.

We don't want to give any author using unethical business practices a platform and have no interest in stirring the pot any further. Instead, we felt spotlighting KU authors who are doing things the right way would be a better use of our time and energy. They are proof that authors can be successful by following the rules. 

If you know authors not engaging in book stuffing practices on KU, please message us and we'll be happy to include a link to their Amazon Author page to our list.

Hear ye, hear ye! We have important news that will affect all our newsletter and ARC list subscribers.

Cecilia and I have had our mailing list and ARC group for over five years now. We are not avid newsletter senders, but that's what we use to communicate new releases, deals and other news related to our books and writing.

On May 25, 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect in Europe, and because of it, we will have to restart our mailing list from scratch.

While we know the vast majority of our subscribers are not from EU countries and that our subscribers were fully vetted even when they didn't directly sign up via our website, we have no way to filter out the EU residents only for verification.

Because we want to make sure everything we do is compliant and impervious to scrutiny, within the next few days, everybody will receive an invitation to confirm subscription.

With a simple click, you will be able to remain on the list. Those who decide to discontinue the subscription can also do so through the same email.

This is the very important part! You must check your junk folder and if you find our email there, follow the information to add us to your trusted senders otherwise our future newsletters will always end up in your junk mail.

Those who are marked as unopened or don't reply by the May 25th deadline will be purged from the list.

We have also decided to terminate our ARC group. We will honor ARCs for those who had already signed up to receive a copy of ACE. Stay tuned as we will introduce a new ARC program through a different medium in the next few months (one more reason to remain a subscriber!).

We hope you’ll remain a subscriber and join us in the new adventures we’ll unveil soon!

Sláinte,

Chris & Cecilia