Amazon’s Burning Bridges

Okay, I just wanted to use that title. Actually, what’s happened is that Amazon notified me that they are pulling “Bridges” from the Kindle store because of inappropriate content. I suspect this is because of the lovely but very erotic Keovi drawings, so I have asked if I can re-upload the book with the particular offending images removed (and yes, I will change the book description to reflect that not all the images are included). Waiting to hear back from them and I will ask for more clarification when that happens.

In the meantime, I am working on making have now made (that was fast) “Bridges” available on Smashwords, where you can download it in MOBI format and send it directly to your Kindle if you have a Kindle platform. So let’s see how this plays out before we all flip out over it. I won’t deny that I’m annoyed that Amazon’s “Pornography/offensive material” switch was flipped, but hey, of all the books I’ve uploaded, Bridges might be one of the porniest (between the text and the images). It is still a story, though, which is why I suspect it’s the images that are tripping their “NO NO NO” flags. Either that or someone complained about it, but I don’t really know, and if Amazon’s history with other incidents of this type are any indication, I probably will never know.

(Also, this gave me the chance to fix some of the typos I found while reading the audio book. )

In short: if you were looking to buy “Bridges” on Amazon and can’t, well, go to Smashwords and get the .MOBI edition.

UPDATE: I don’t THINK this will affect copies you’ve already bought. It shouldn’t. But if it does, please complain to Amazon’s Customer Service, because there’s nothing I can do.