Throwing a Spite Sale to celebrate owning my book again after amazon shadow banned it with no notice to me back in December and cost me nearly 4 months of potential traffic!
Want a cash-free copy? Find out how in this post!
DM me for accommodation requests, being disabled myself I'm happy to work within your spoons budget to a mutually satisfactory compromise.
Summary blurb with additional editorial review. Although it was written in 2008, its been compared to the mournful lore-rich world of Ethel Cain, NBL-era Nicole Dollanganger, Jake Minch, and The Mountain Goats.
Fans and Critics also have compared the prose/vibes to iconic artists like Mary Ellen Mark, Sally Mann, Harmony Korine, Tennessee Williams, Jt Leroy, Ian Banks, Irvine Welsh, Jack Ketchum, Duras, Dennis Cooper, Bukowski, Spike Lee, and the bildungsroman's of pre-sobriety Stephen King.
Your ticket to enter the reality-unstable, jaded, impotently rageful, future-stolen delinquent millennial hell of a postmodern/pre-ironic Southern heatwave and the skeletons it both buries and skins afresh can be accessed cash free:
- Preferred: An honest review regardless of favorable or critical feedback on your most followed platform. 250+ words written or 3+ mins recorded
- Bonus/Tandem/Alt: 2 week full boycott of Amazon + 1 round of not renewing your memberships w/proof (name redacted)
In exchange you will receive a fully edited/formatted ebook copy of "Little Heck" PRE-AMAZON CENSORSHIP CUTS/UNRATED or PDF for lower storage/multi-device compatibility upon request.
Using The Honor System, DM me with an Email to get your cash-free copy.
For <100 subs, please X-post your review to Goodreads.
DNF Reviews 100% Valid W/Reasons provided in review.
Cross-promo auto-included with all cases of tandem support, lets grow together!
Im an artist not a capitalist so exposure and accessibility > profit
Email + consent in my DMs gets you WIP preview content + advanced notice for pre-order discounts and limited space 1st draft beta reader access to future works.
Also open to content/review swaps of other transgressive/dark/taboo/splatterpunk novels of comparable length We are community not competition!
Communication and authenticity > capitalism and marketability.
"Authors" that have used AI/paid publicity not eligible.
Finally free copies available to ALL OTHER AUTHORS WHO FOLLOW ME IN CUTTING TIES WITH AMAZON! BREAK THE MONOPOLY, UNEQUAL CENSORSHIP RULES, PAID ALGORYTHM TAMPERING, AND EXCLUSION OF INDIE WORKS FROM CONTENT-SEQUESTERED SUBCATAGORIES AND JOIN ME IN FINDING A HOME THAT ACTUALLY SERVE AND WELCOMES US! Help me organize a mass KDP exodus this June to dent the monopoly and uplift a better distributor as "KDP for Real Art/Too Hardcore For KDP/KDP Festival Cut/KDP With Merit Based Visibility/KDPunk"
[A call to self published authors sick of amazon's mistreatment, unevenly enforced content guidelines, and pay-for-play bullshit, and algorithm inauthenticity to mass-migrate to a better platform, planning for the exodus to take place in June to give us time to build numbers and organize a blow to a bottom line that influenced our mistreatment by the platform. Amazon shadow bans anything above YA level content from indie authors, promotes industry shills, gives preferential treatment to non-indie authors, and is about to purge the horror and romance categories for any challenging indie content any second now like they did w/ erotica in 2013. The time has come to jump ship. Authors of transgressive, dark romance, trauma memoir, or splatterpunk/extreme horror we need to link arms and march off to blow up a less exploitative censored distributor. Lets brainstorm an organized exodus to all leave in a squad and dent their monopoly a little bit. Any suggestions for who we will exalt as the ebook distributor for indie works "Too Edgy For Amazon" that will welcome our genres and the associated content? Who gets to become the punk rock replacement platform? Draft2digital? Smashwords? Seeking suggestions for ebook distributors friendly to seasoned meat, Amazon only serves boiled chicken, we and our art are above them!]
SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING/PAID PRAISE MILLS NEED NOT APPLY AND WILL BE EXPOSED
"Influencers" (>5k subs) CANT HAVE ANY HISTORY OF FALSE ADVERTISING/ACCEPTING $-4-MENTIONS, GAIN FOLLOWERS THROUGH BOTS/TRAINS (OC + GENUINE PROPORTIONAL ENGAGEMENT REQUIRED) and MUST MENTION 3 UNIQUE SPECIFIC ELEMENTS (to prove they r not just skimming/plagiarizing reviews by others for Viral Potential/Discovery Clout)
Finally feel free to ask about my handmade cover art (Zero AI, Cash-Free Compensation), my referrals to trained visual artists/illustrators of all styles and photographers w/ reasonable commercial use rates, or a referral to the VERY affordable professional editor & translator who made this novel possible (Extensive experience in English-Russian Translation and Offering Skilled Copy Editing/Proofreading) as well as my own cash-free 20+ year experience in Content/Line Editing/Beta Reading.
Disclaimer: I do not nor will I ever use AI for content, cover art, prose, plot, worldbuilding. My only digital assistance is spellcheck (to accommodate dyslexia and motor issues) and oldweb style Generators specifically for nonUSAmerican characters to avoid a Cho Chung disaster and geographically organic locations to respect other cultures naming traditions.
Using AI and $-4-view use admit artistic failure like using 🌽and 🪝ers admit sexual failure.
Those with actual skill don't need to cheat or buy merit
