A Slight Alteration

That’s the understatement of pretty much forever.

As many of you noticed, What a Spinster Wants was released yesterday.
Technically.

It didn’t actually do much of anything yesterday except grace the walls of Amazon when you searched for it.

There are reasons for this, none of which I have control over. I’m not actually sure what these reasons are because everybody that publisher and I talk to says something different, but the ironically unifying theme is that it is NOT their fault. It’s someone else’s.

Clearly.

Amazon blames the distributor, the publisher, COVID, and probably your mom. Barnes and Noble is shockingly lovely and has no problems whatsoever with my paperback sitting there. The distributor blames COVID, Amazon, COVID again, and probably my mom. My publisher has probably lost his marbles, his temper, his dignity, and maybe even HIS mother fighting with both because he’s done his job x 100,000 and nobody else can figure theirs out.

And then there’s me. Amazon pats me on the head and says “It’s your distributor. Or the publisher. Or this thing called COVID, if you know what that is. Talk to them, and maybe they can fix it.”

I don’t like being patronized...

All joking aside, and all mothers potentially involved, the paperback is temporarily out of stock on Amazon for no good reason. The eBook is not available anywhere for no good reason. I have no idea when this will be fixed because there’s no good reason for any of this.

So there’s that.

I’m so sorry about this. If there was anything I truly had power to do, I would do it. The good news is that when the book IS really released, you’ll all get notified. And we’re planning a great big release party.

Might even get a few Scottish people around in honor of Edith.

On an unrelated note, does anyone know any Scottish people?

Stay strong, friends. We’ll get through this.

There’s always Diet Coke...