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FOR TWO DAYS ONLY, YOU CAN SNAG AN ENTIRE SERIES OF MIND-BLOWING, AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE FICTION-ADVENTURE KINDLE EBOOKS FOR ONLY 99 CENTS!

The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy’s Kindle edition is 99 cents. This is its everyday price––such a deal for an award-winning book. Link takes you to The Angel’s Kindle page.
Lady Grace: A Thrilling Adventure Wrapped in the Embrace of Epic Love is FREE Friday November 2 and Saturday November 3. The link above will take you to Lady Grace on the Kindle store.
Sam & Emily: A Love Story from the Underground is FREE Friday November 2 and Saturday November 3. The link will take you to Sam & Emily on the Kindle store.

Those of you who’ve following my Plucky Grandmother series, here and here, will know that I’ve scheduled promotional days where two of my KIndle eBooks will be offered free. The promotion is this weekend, October 12, 13, & 14th.

Except that my book, The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy, was/is listed on Apple’s iBookstore. I didn’t know it until Amazon told me about it. If you’re in Amazon’s KDP program, which allows you to give away your Kindle eBooks, you can’t distribute anywhere else.

After a series of supremely unhelpful emails between Amazon and me, I assumed I lost the argument. Then I received the following email from Amazon.
The letter congratulates me on getting my eBook into the KDP Select program. But it’s been in the program since May or something. It’s already had one KDP Free Promotion. Is this Amazon’s way of saying, “We hear you, Sandy, here’s a few more days to get The Angel exclusive to Amazon.”

The only way I’ll know is to wait and see if The Angel is free tomorrow. What surprises on the morn!

I wrote Amazon and explained all this, asking for a few days for Apple to figure out the problem and let me do this weekend’s KDP program with one less worry. I sent Amazon records from BookBaby indicating they had pulled the title from the iBookstore. I sent copies of my emails to Apple & their response. I got down on my hands and knees and begged. This is Apple’s response, taken from their email earlier today:
The email shows that Amazon doesn’t care that you’ve done your best to comply with their rules and thought you had. You can be petitioning God for help for all they care. It doesn’t matter if you need a few more days, or if your dog died. They say they’re committed to the best customer service ever. Not for suppliers. Read the letter above. They’re a bullying monopolist.

Look at Apple’s response to my pleas: