Most books aren't published forever. Print publishers make room for new titles by having limited print runs, and backlisted titles that don't sell are often not reprinted. Since e-books are technically forever, e-book publishers often deal with this by offering time-limited contracts.
Sadly, this means that my three-year contract with Lyrical Press for SUFFER THE CHILDREN has now come to an end. The e-book in its current format has disappeared from all online retailers. This has been a hard thing to deal with. It's particularly depressing to discover that it's gone from the Amazon Kindle list, along with the handful of generally positive reviews it had notched up. Somehow seeing it on Amazon made me feel validated as an author.
However, the good news is that with the end of the contract, the rights have reverted back to me, to do with them as I see fit. And SUFFER THE CHILDREN will return as an e-book, although with a different cover. In fact, I've commissioned an artist I know to work on the new cover image. Watch this space for more information.
In the meantime, SUFFER THE CHILDREN is still on Goodreads - at least it is at present. With the recent news about Amazon taking over Goodreads, who knows what's going to happen. For now, at least, it's there, along with a few reviews that people have posted there. So if you enjoyed SUFFER THE CHILDREN, why not go post a review there? It might help me boost sales when the rebooted version is released.
If you didn't get around to buying it, all is not lost, as it will be back in the near future. In the meantime, you could try DEATH SCENE or SOUL SCREAMS while you wait. Both of them are still available from Amazon...
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