Angry at being ostricized

I got so excited at having the chance to enter Amazon's competition, but I was thwarted by my book having too many words - what is that? Are they being wordists? Maximists?? Whatever it is they have annoyed me greatly. 150,000 seems a small book to me. Most books I have read over the years have more than that. Diana Gabaldon's are enourmous and I have followed suit and written boooks which last longer than a chocolate bar pr two!

I feel so frustrated at this maximum, it hurts me and I should be able to shrug it off and so ho-hum, their loss, but I can't. I think it's because I have put so much hard work to produce a great story, in both my books and now working on my third and its not good enough for those with a small attention span that I have no intention of losing a **** good story just to fit in with an apparent lack of attention.

Shame on you Amazon/Create space. The great novels of this world were not short stories, they were there to be read, to be lost in for days rather than a mere glance. Shame.