The Fickle Finger of Fate by Mark Chisnell
Every now and again I get an email from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) team. Usually these are bringing my attention to some discrepancy or other in one of the 11 books I have published with KDP, often requiring swift remedial action. A recent one required me to check the HTML coding that I had used on my book description pages, and to do it in less than 24 hours. They were about to change the way the website presented the HTML, and if I didn’t get it sorted… well, quite frankly, my book pages would look crap… or words to that effect. So when I see these emails pop into my inbox I open them with some trepidation. Whatever I was expecting from the one that arrived a couple of days before the end of October, it wasn’t this… “ We are considering including your book: Il disertore in an upcoming promotion in the Amazon.it Kindle Book Store .” Promotion? In the Amazon.it store? I read on with a churning stomach. I’ve written previously on the joys of Indie-pub transl...