To those of you who were so kind as to purchase a copy or read a review copy of my first novel, Catnapped, A Klepto Cat Mystery, I apologize for the less than clean Kindle version you received. First, I jumped the gun, broke my own rules and published the book too soon. But I learned a lot from critics and reviewers and did a revision. Had the book proofed. In early August, we resubmitted Catnapped to Amazon for the Kindle Direct Publishing. I checked the sample text on the book page at Amazon and was convinced it was ready to go. I had no reason to doubt it.
So I promoted far and wide–sent an enewsletter out to two thousand people, etc. It came to my attention this week that the old version of Catnapped was still being sold at Amazon. While they had updated the book page, they were still sending the original version to customers–over a thousand customers, unfortunately.
I have two things to say–if you have revised a book for the KDP program, make sure that Amazon follows through in all areas or your old version might still be going out to customers. And that’s downright embarrassing. How do you find out? In at least some cases (such as ours), Amazon won’t allow you to purchase the revised edition for your Kindle if you’ve already bought the original. We scrambled to find someone with a Kindle who had not purchased the book so we could check it to make sure it is right this time. It appears that they are selling the revised, updated, corrected version. If anyone knows of another way the author can get a copy of the current version of his/her Kindle book once they’ve already purchased another version, please let me know. plfry620@yahoo.com
I appreciate your interest and support as I attempt to shift from a life-time of nonfiction writing to potential novelist and, again, I apologize for letting you down by allowing Amazon to sell a book that wasn’t quite ready for you.
If you haven’t read Catnapped, you can order a copy for your Kindle here: http://amzn.to/14OCk0W