Official Apology : I���m sorry I broke Amazon

For years I have tip-toed around the idea of self-publishing, but for one reason or another I always talked myself out of doing it. I finally took the plunge this weekend, and excitedly uploaded my work to Amazon.

I���m sorry Amazon readers. I���m really very sorry other authors who were trying to publish their own books. I���m sorry Amazon���I didn���t mean to break you.

Apparently what had been running as a well-oiled, predictable machine totally forgot how to Amazon when gunked up with my first dip into the self-pub pool. My work got stuck in queue, under review for days when less than twelve hours was the previous norm, and I took everyone else down with me. Self-publishing message boards everywhere were filled with people  trying to figure out why their books weren���t being processed, what had happened.

I happened.

I���m cursed.

If I touch something, it breaks.

If I want something, it���s gone.

If I love something, it dies���or runs away screaming because it knows what���s coming.

If I go ���Hey, that���s the best show ever!��� it gets cancelled (Firefly is probably my fault too. Sorry browncoats.)

If I enter a crowded room, it clears out (although that may have less to do with my luck and more to do with an inability to censor myself for polite society).

If I join a group, a team, a movement, it self-destructs.

So yes, Amazon, and all those affected by the great end of August slow-down of the review and publish process, I apologize. I���ll try not to let it happen again, but as I have four more parts to my serial to get out, I can���t make any promises.