Having hit the publish button on Kindle Direct Publishing on 6th May, and having had previous kindle books published within 12 hours and paperbacks within 36 hours, I began to worry when my book still wasn’t live more than the promised ‘within 72 hours’ later.
I did some investigating and found that any books mentioning lockdown or coronavirus or Covid-19 were going to be subject to closer scrutiny, because they didn’t want people profiteering from the pandemic. Fair enough, but I did then wonder whether my book, written perfectly innocently with no intention of cashing in, just continuing a story I’d started writing more than twelve months ago that runs in real time (I was working on the first Fairytale novels for much of 2019, my mission beings to get a book published that year).
Reassured by another author who posted that her book mentioning the pandemic (because it’s hard to write about 2020 without doing so!) had been published after eight days, I decided to sit back and be patient. My patience paid off, and this morning I woke up to an email telling me that my book has been published In Kindle form, and sure enough, there it was amongst the others in the Kindle store on Amazon. Hopefully it’s not going to be long now, before the paperback version follows suit, as they’re linked, so if the kindle has been approved, it should only be a matter of time before the paperback is available too.
Phew! No idea how I’d re-write the fairytale without mention of Covid otherwise.
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