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    The Shaky Future of Self-Publishing and Romance
    Penelope
    • Mar 22, 2018
    • 15 min

    The Shaky Future of Self-Publishing and Romance

    The romance self-publishing world isn't going to look the same this time next year. Before I go all doomsayer, I should preface by saying that romance readers aren't going anywhere and the genre as a whole should always remain strong. The simplified version of the problem I see on the horizon is this: the readers will remain, but the platforms they use and the way they seek out books will change dramatically. To better understand what's happening, it's easiest to first look a
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    Near Disaster: How One of my Books Almost Got Pulled From Amazon
    Penelope
    • Mar 5, 2018
    • 9 min

    Near Disaster: How One of my Books Almost Got Pulled From Amazon

    I've had a *lot* of issues with the technical side of Amazon, which I'm sure I'll write a post on in the coming weeks, but the biggest near-miss I ever had wasn't necessarily Amazon's fault. Just to set the scene a little bit, if you've read my posts so far you'll know that I was in a very scary spot before I hit the publish button for Knocked Up by the Dom. Early 2017 had been amazing for me. My books were suddenly all hitting the top 50 and I even had a few get as high as t
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