Since publishing my book through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, I check the book’s status on the Amazon site at least twice a day. Mostly I want to see if there are any new reviews, but I also still get a thrill from seeing a book with my name on it for sale on the website. It’s a rush,
This afternoon, though, when I checked on Mayhem at the Happy Valley Motor Inn and Resort it was gone from the Amazon website, and no matter how I searched for it, I couldn’t find it. I had a panic attack. What had happened? Was I banned? If so, why?
But then I noticed that none of the books written by a Leslie Noyes was showing up in a search. My friend Leslie Morris Noyes’s outstanding book, Willing, was missing as was the book, Back to Pakistan, a Fifty Year Journey by Leslie Noyes Mass. In my paranoid state I concluded that SOMEONE had a vendetta against people named Leslie Noyes.
I shook my fist at the heavens. Then I contacted Leslie Morris Noyes who in turn contacted Amazon. I’d have done that myself, but couldn’t find the number. At any rate, by the time Amazon returned her call the books had been restored to the site. Whew.
And who knows why the books went missing in the first place? Maybe it was a glitch, or maybe a sign from the universe that I need to finish my second book. Or maybe, just maybe, someone does have it in for Leslie Noyeses… We may never know.
Peace, people.
Whew! I’m so glad all is back up on Amazon. Sometimes the Universe does weird stuff. 🙀
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I was really scared for about twenty minutes.
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I don’t blame you. I would have totally panicked. Thank goodness “All’s Well That Ends Well.”
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True!
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Now that sounds like something WP would do!! Glad things got restored, for all the Leslie’s.
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Thank you! And it did sound like a WP glitch!
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What you WEREN’T needing eh?
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Totally doused my creativity this afternoon.
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Honey, there’s aye SOMETHING gets in your face that way. Technology is great but there’s a big downside.
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Technology and I have a love/hate relationship.
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But also, this biz??? It can be brutal. So you never never know if someone’s been at capers. I am sure your the other Leslie here wil plenty know re that and keeping things on track xxxxxxx
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She’s much more savvy than I am!
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Oh you learn. Lot of folks just waiting to take you down. xxxxxxx
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That’s just sad.
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I’m not surprised you panicked and pleased your friend created enough noise about it to have it put right
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The noise factor is strong with us Noyes women. Like the light side of the force.
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🙂
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Yikes! Sometimes, I don’t think it takes much for Amazon to pull something. It may have been a complaint and they pulled while they were investigating. I’ve seen some horror stories about them pulling books without explanation and the authors having to fight for months to get them restored. So glad this was just a little bump!
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Thanks! I’d heard some similar stories so I was rattled.
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