Trying to publish a book is a lot of work. Sometimes hard painful work. With zero rewards. You spend a lot of money and time on a story and publish it. And spend more money and time promoting it. Doing everything you can for months and months. Only to have it go unnoticed and unloved. Something that you put a lot of work and love into.

If you're a sensitive person, it can become too much. And as an author. I'm at that point.

Sometimes you have to realize that now isn't the time. Maybe someday, but not now. So I'll be closing this account and not responding. My stories with Vera have been removed from Kindle. Maybe someday we'll come back to them. But for now, we need to be done. It is too much for both of us.

Thank you for your time and for those who had kind words for us, thank you even more.