Sunday, July 24, 2022

Problem with publishing rights for "A Succubus for Valentine's Day" on Amazon

About this time I was expecting to start promotion for "A Succubus for Valentine's Day" and giving you the link to pre-order it.  In fact, on some other ebook sites, eg Kobo, it is available for pre-order:
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/a-succubus-for-valentine-s-day

But not currently on Amazon.  This is where it gets complicated.

I finished preparing the manuscript and uploaded it to the regular ebook sites last Sunday, setting an official release date of the 29th.  Amazon came back to me with an email warning of possible rights infringement.  I wasn't too fussed about this.  The same thing happened while I was republishing "A Succubus for Christmas".  Thankfully, Selina Kitt, the owner of my previous publisher, Excessica, was ahead of the game, and so when Excessica closed its doors at the end of 2021, she sent out letters to all authors officially reverting their rights back to them.  I replied to Amazon attaching that letter and "A Succubus for Christmas" was available for pre-order the next day.

I figured it would be the same here.  Except nothing happened.

I waited a week and then gave them a prod, thinking it had just been forgotten and that would jog them into making the book go live for pre-order.

This wasn't the case.  I got a response indicating they hadn't received the necessary documentation... despite me already sending them the relevant documentation.

So, I'm not really sure what's going on here.  It's unfortunately stressful and concerning.  It could be a mix-up that's easily fixed in the next couple of days, but then I thought that last weekend.  The problem with being the little guy dealing with the massive corporation is you can be in the right and it not matter a jot.  If something gets stuck, it gets stuck, and then you're shit out of luck.

I'm going to proceed with the July 29th release date as planned for everywhere else and hope I can resolve whatever is blocking things at Amazon.

It does have me concerned.  Amazon is 90% of sales and I was hoping to put all 6 collections back up as a series.  Amazon are not something I can just route around if they fuck up and don't fix it.



Coming soon... I hope!

6 comments:

  1. Hey Hydra, are you going to add another large succubus like Zuripai in the House. Her full body boob massage was great, but I felt like you could have added more to her. Like:

    -Having her like lie down on her back and letting the man thrust into her.

    -Holding the man to her belly, putting his dick into her pussy as she thrusts upwards.

    -Casting a spell to make herself lighter and using her wings to ride the guy cowgirl and having enough control to not crush the man.

    -Holding the man up, having his legs around her neck as she gives him a blowjob.

    Would you come back to her, or make another large succubus?

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    1. Maybe. I've had requests for Giantess harlots. I don't have many slots left now, but HoHH is designed to be open-ended, so maybe in the future if the right idea comes along.

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  2. Dude what do you think of the new anime that just came out? Its called Vermil in Gold. Do you think can base a succubus off of Vermil (the busty devil girl with purple hair) looks and design? Do take a peek at her since you love busty and mature looking demon girls :D

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    1. Seen clips. She looks a pretty hot succubus. I think the anime keeps things fairly clean. I might check it out when I get a chance though. I do have a thing for MILFy sexually dominant succubi (in case people haven't guessed! :D )

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  3. How was Nicole intimidating just the guy and not the whole party in the Halloween one shot? Was she using a magical spell to frighten only the snobby rich guy jerk and it only effected him and not others around him?

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    1. Her attention wasn't really on them. It was less a spell and more her triggering a primal "this is a predator and it's about to eat me" fear in the jerk. It took a while for that to get through to him as well.

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