Amazon is Trash for Authors, and I Hate Them So Much
"Everything Amazon says is a lie, and everything they have is stolen." - Freidrich Neitzche, if he was trying to get self-published in 2023. Look, 2011 was a crazy time for me, okay? I published something like four books in a heady rush of excitement on Amazon. All at once. Not well edited, with shitty covers. We know that. Well, I do. I don’t know who you are at all. It was a mistake, I understand that. Own it. Embrace it. I paved the way so the people who followed later didn’t have to. I even got a decent little book out of it . (Note to self: Make this book free now.) I’ve spent a fair amount of time since then not only correcting my mistakes (you can’t, fully, which is why you need to listen and pay attention and not make the same mistakes) but in trying to prevent at least a few others from doing the same. But now? My problems in Radar Love are down to the stylistic. And, not to be a dickhead, but even the very first published drafts won over a large majority of read
