Dear faithful reader,

Recently I’ve been a little quiet when it comes to updating you on my writing. There’s a reason for that. This month, my book sales have dropped to an unbelievable level.

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(My actual sales graph. As you can see, things aren’t looking too good)

Now, I’m not usually one to beg for money, but I recently decided to open up a Patreon page. I literally just pressed publish on it and now I guess I’m here with my hands out asking for a, … well, a handout!

All joking aside, things have not been going too well on the financial side as of late. A month ago, I released a brand new collection. It began to gain traction, along with my other new releases. I was doing fine. But then Amazon informed me that it was no longer available for sale. Apparently, there was some sort of glitch. A glitch that took them fourteen days to put right.

When they finally did, the book was put back on and everything returned to normal. But, that didn’t last long. The next day, the collection’s sales halted along with pretty much everything in my back catalog.

They’d informed me that whilst they’d been tinkering around with the collection to get it working again, they’d instructed some “engineers” to fix the problem. Once the collection went live again, I was knocked out of the algorithms.

So for the past month, I’ve watched on as everything I’ve worked for has nosedived into oblivion. I’m not going to lie, I was ready to jack all of it in. It’s not a decision that I came to out of the blue. Things have been getting harder and harder for the past two years.

The Kindle Store is flooded with Mommy Porn and I’m being drowned by the landslide of shite available to the public. New readers are hard to find these days, but I’ve managed to hang on for dear life even though sales have stagnated.

There’s a reason I continue to carry on though. It’s because I love what I do. And I love all of you. So I’ll never give up. Even if Amazon are messing with my livelihood.

My constant readers don’t even get email alerts telling them that I have new books out. I find that the hardest to stomach out of everything else.  For years now, I’ve been exclusive to Amazon. In return, I’ve trusted them to keep my readers updated whilst showing me a little gratitude on their part.

In the past six years, I’ve made them tons of cash. All I want off them is a little stability. But it would appear as if that stability is a long ways off. Every day, no matter what I do, no matter how much I promote or advertise my books, the sales dip and dip.

I have no choice. I’ve decided to go ahead with my Patreon page. At least then I can have some form of control.

So I’m here to ask you for some help. If you’ve ever read any of my books and want to support me (I only ask for a dollar a month, if you can afford more, please feel free to pledge more.) Then please make your way over to my Patreon page.

I have a ton of cool prizes, including exclusive novels and stories that will only be available to my Patreon supporters.

It doesn’t feel good to beg. But I see this as an opportunity for both you and I.

Now we have a direct line of communication to each other and we can start a special community where we are never more than a message away.

I hope that this new project will bear fruit. All I want to do is be able to continue writing. At least this way, I stand some chance.

Thanks for reading.

https://www.patreon.com/LuisSamways