Waverly Is Back in Her Next Mystery

The past and the present collide as Waverly Jones tackles the missing person case of Det. Kyle.

Kindle | Kobo | iBooks | Payhip | Paperback | Special Edition Hardcover

The hardcover is chock-full of extras, including the novella “Haunting at Hayward House”, the short “Bro Code” (coming to Patreon in August) and the short “Too Long to Stop Now” (coming to Patreon in December), the usual behind-the-scenes thing, and a recipe for taters very similar to Mary Brown’s (with my secret ingredient for battering).

(Hardcovers are, surprisingly, shipping quite quickly right now. Not my copies, but regular orders.)

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This is my only new release this year (although I do intend to get Hell Fire edited, polished, and out in a paperback, I think Soul Spell sold like six copies, so they don’t really count), but I’ll have some large print editions of some books coming.

This is also my last series release on Kindle and by June 1 I’ll be removing all series books from Amazon in eBook.

A month ago they started a new program that recaps books using generative AI. While I appreciate that readers like this kind of thing, it was done with no clarification regarding their process–are summarized books “forgotten” or made part of their system?–and cannot be edited or corrected. They didn’t even announce it was genAI until they were asked. It sounds as if they’re summarizing all books in a series, including new releases, and I have no idea if this’ll be worked into their customer page AI (which was pitched as “you can ask questions, such as how does the book end!” IIRC).

There is no way to opt out of it so that “customers have a consistent experience.”

Yeah, no.

Right now it’s US only and for bestselling series. I have put in multiple inquiries to KDP. No one has given me any answers. D2D, who distributes to Kindle for a lot of people, also apparently have no answers.

I have put up with so many frustrations from Kindle over the years and as it is I don’t sell my bigger boxsets there because of the price cap. It’s added up and this is where I have just said fuck it.

I’m torching my career with this–and I’ve also cut out Nook as an option (no, they still haven’t paid me). I don’t sell a lot on Kindle, but it’s pretty much impossible to have a career self-pubbing without having books there. It’s the first place most readers go when they get a recommendation, it’s crucial with a US audience.

But, well, YOLO!

Kindle readers: I appreciate you so, so much. If not for you, I would have left years ago. I hope some of you will look into side-loading and buy direct (and god I hope Kindle doesn’t also scan side-loaded books *sigh*) or if you use a tablet for reading, explore other apps (I personally use iBooks, Kobo, Everand, and Kindle all on my iPad). If not, I understand, and wish you well.

Paperbacks and hardcovers will still be sold on Amazon (god help me if they start recapping those as well).

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Last year’s Waverly release was absolutely terrible (part of it, in fact, inspired the opening of this one) so this year I am resolving to just not leave the apartment at all. I might get a pizza delivered, even though I have pizza in the freezer, just as a treat.

There is a very easy and not at all complicated chart to follow for the series right here:

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Also, Odin’s Spear is in audio at Everand today! I expect this will be my last audiobook and I’ll talk about that some other time.