Wassup with republishing and reissuing in a new name SLEE?

Just got this question on another forum (in a slightly more polite form...)

Yes, I previously published five titles under the name TJ Slee on Amazon and then they were taken offline and now they are re-published under the name Tim.

WTF?

Well, after winning the Publishers Weekly BookLife fiction prize I got an offer of representation I couldn't refuse. I signed over representation rights to my prize winning novels and agreed to take the novels off Amazon and effectively 'disappear' from indie publishing.

We gave it our best shot finding a trad publisher but got no bites. Such is life!

But in the meantime the novels had been re-edited, much improved, and it seemed like a nice idea to relaunch them 'under new management'!

That's why they have suddenly reappeared, fresh and new and ready for new reader reviews. The first has just rolled in and was a full 5 stars, so that's a nice a start!

Thankyou 'ATX' wherever you may be!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079VL4DHD#...