Best wishes for mega sales!

That's expensive, to keep wide readers happy. I tried KU. Once. I made no headway at all. I don't write stories that neatly fit down the middle of a sub-genre, so the whale-readers give me a hard pass.

"Mostly" ... do you find KU and non-KU readers get mad because books they want to read are/are not in KU? That's always been my fear.

Me, too. Remission for two years now, and no one can tell me how long it will last, so I'm getting on with living. And writing.

On the positive side, this morning, when I got up, my inbox was stuffed full of sympathy emails from readers. Mental hugs.

A reaffirmation that while humanity in general sucks, most people do not suck at all. Quite the opposite.

I'm off to answer each and every one of them....

Yeah, it sucks. But thanks.

I was expecting too much, I think.

And when I sent out the emails to all my reader lists, telling them what I had to do, a rash of unsubscribes started. I guess I know why they were on my email lists....

I feel sick. And tired. No wonder that's a cliche.

Thanks. Lesson learned. I won't do this again. The world has just got...nastier.

The a-hat who complained about now all his free ebooks were on different bookfunnel accounts just emailed again to ask that we consolidate all his accounts, and implied it was bad customer service to refuse.

I'm actually going to turn off the coupon code (which was supposed to run until NYE), and send out an email to my readers and explain why.

This...just fucking sucks.

..and still more asshats trying to game the system so they can get more than one book.

That's it. I'm not doing this again. I'm pissed right now, but give me a few hours and I'll mourn the descent of decency.

It was heartbreaking, but we figured it was just a small fraction of the readers who loved the gift.

So we set up again for Christmas day this year and gave out the coupon....

...and I've had precisely three thank you emails, a lot of complaints about boxed sets and collections not being included

It does, but SFWA is not in Canada.

Alas, there's only so many rooms you can leave before you run out of rooms. Especially in Canada, where authors who write space opera <clears throat> have no professional support except what one can find online.