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Adam’s Stepsons Wins Award

AS-RevisedNEWFrontIt’s official now! Adam’s Stepsons won “Honorable Mention” in the Readers’ Favorites yearly contest in the “Best Short Story/ Novella” category. Stoked!

Read the reviews on Readers’ Favorites here:

https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/adams-stepsons

And don’t forget to enter for a chance to win a Kindle version of the novella!

https://readersfavorite.com/giveaway?sort=title

(Don’t forget to check out the author’s interview on Literary Titan!)

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Scammers Break The Kindle Store

How clickfarming broke the Kindle Store (if it wasn’t already broken…): 

https://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/scammers-break-the-kindle-store/

David Gaughran

On Friday, a book jumped to the #1 spot on Amazon, out of nowhere; it quickly became obvious that the author had used a clickfarm to gatecrash the charts.

The Kindle Store is officially broken.

This is not the first time this has happened and Amazon’s continued inaction is increasingly baffling. Last Sunday, a clickfarmed title also hit #1 in the Kindle Store. And Amazon took no action.

Over the last six weeks, one particularly brazen author has put four separate titles in the Top 10, and Amazon did nothing whatsoever. There are many such examples.

I wrote at the start of June about how scammers were taking over Amazon’s free charts. That post led to a phone conversation with KDP’s Executive Customer Relations.

Repeated assurances were given that the entire leadership team at Amazon was taking the scammer problem very seriously indeed. But it was also stressed that the…

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Excerpt from Adam’s Stepsons

A new excerpt from Adam’s Stepsons is now available.

Thanks are due to Cindy Harris, who kindly allowed me to post information about the book on her blog, Cindy’s Notebook.

(The back cover blurb appears back to back for some reason, but that shouldn’t detract from the excerpt itself!)

Check it out!

https://blacklilackitty.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/adams-stepsons/