The Great LitRPG KU Exodus

It's a sobering thing, to see a storm hit, and to realize that through no virtue or planning of your own besides luck, you have been spared the deluge.

So, back in the April to May timeframe, a lot of Gamelit/LitRPG authors of my acquaintance got nastygrams from Amazon. The letters were identical, and said that they were in violation of the Terms of Service. Amazon took away quite a lot of their Kindle Unlimited page read credits, and told them not to do it again.

Only problem was, these guys hadn't done anything to begin with.

And while many of them were trying to contact Amazon to figure out what was going on, they got a second-stage nastygram, with a bonus present of suspended books.

It wasn't hard to figure out what was going on. The Amazon Kindle Unlimited scamfarms occasionally use legitimate books as cover, in order to try and fool the Amazon algorithms. The algorithms, being programmed to err on the side of nuclear explosions, identify the innocent authors as offenders and automatically start beating them up until the activity stops.

It's unfair, it's horrible, and several full-time writers in the LitRPG/Gamelit community have been affected.

But not me.

I have some stuff in KU, but not Threadbare. Not the Gamelit stuff. My desire to leave it available to members of selected fiction sites meant I couldn't put it in KU to begin with. So I was spared the storm. This time, anyway.

Many of my fellow authors, thus struck, are starting to go wide. They will join me in Kobo, Apple, D2D, and all the little subsidiaries. They are done with KU and drama, for now at least.

And oh, hey! My first audiobook comes out tomorrow!

https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fan...

To celebrate, I'm dropping the ebook price for Threadbare Volume I to $0.99 or the local store equivalent. It'll be on sale for the day all through Amazon.

Hooray for audiobooks! Hooray for powerleveling the Luck stat! Be well, and roll crits!