I checked my Goodreads author dashboard a little while ago and was surprised to discover I’ve authored four more books. I went over to Amazon, and there they were, too.

They were Kindle editions so I opened one up and read the first few words. And it was really awful. I don’t know if they were written by a badly coded piece of software or if they're the natural end products of a modern education system in which no one is ever told they’re not doing something right.

The books are so poorly and oddly written, I suspect they’ve been produced solely to fool readers looking for undiscovered works by me into clicking and buying. Though it escapes me why anyone would want to do that through Amazon, since you can instantly return an ebook whose first sentences make you turn green and need to lie down.

Anyway, the titles of these non-books are: The Captive and the Godslayer (ASIN B01BMWHFO8); The Urban Year (ASIN B01BG2KI6G); The Planet of the Stormed Game (ASIN B01BG6JO80); and As I Am (ASIN B01BSU9VFU).

I don’t think there’s much I can to stop Amazon’s algorithms from aligning them with my works, but I’ll send them a note and see what happens.