I knew it would happen eventually. I just hoped it wouldn’t be for a stupid reason.

Long story short, I have a personal kdp account for everything – audiobooks, fiction, etc. Decades of effort was spent building it and while it wasn’t enough to avoid a job or other business, the royalty streams were at the level that I was truly thankful for them to be there.

I was a minority shareholder in a business that was putting out nonfiction, some of which I was writing. The majority shareholder (n...