Even Stars Burn Out

Amazon terminated my Kindle seller account.

I don't know why, exactly. I wrote them three times asking them to explain, especially since I haven't uploaded anything in years, and that whatever TOS violation they were citing at me was almost definitely inadvertent. But they won't give me an answer. It's just a copy-paste reply that "we've reviewed your account and we're keeping it terminated."

And always the reminder that I can never open another one ever again.

So that means the Jane books (HEART AND SOUL FIST and SPIRITS OF SUMMER) are currently not available. I'm trying to figure out what to do with them next. Likely, I'll just end up posting them here for free with a donation link, for anyone who is interested.

The old versions of my "career" keep dying.

This one hurts more in particular, though, because it's my WRITING. The most sacred of the things I do. And that avenue is gone now, likely because I did things with the keyword system that was the common advice years ago and is probably not allowed now. That's the only thing I can think of that would have triggered it, since it was about "manipulating the system" and not anything content related.

I keep thinking about this line from CARPE JUGULEM where the Vampires talk about why them having children is dangerous. Because vampires don't really die, they don't raise replacements, like mortals. They raise competitors.

Maybe all these old things have to die so they don't compete with the new stuff.

I have two main things I'm working on. I won't say anything further for now because I'm tired of making promises and not keeping them.

This will also be the first year without a Thanksgiving Special, sadly. I have no ideas for it and it's way too close to get anything recorded at this point.

That's all for now.