Author Behaving Badly: Am I Allowed to Quit Now?

Nothing says “I love you” quite as much as readers bullying authors using one of Amazon’s shitty tools to do it.

I am exhausted.

A few times a week, as of late, I get this lovely notice. “One or more of your books has quality items that need to be addressed.”

Ignoring the twitch-inducing grammatical structure of the notice’s statement, let’s go into what happens when you see this warning.

Anxiety. It begins with a chill for me, one that starts in the spine and spreads elsewhere. ...