A Change of Plans

Monday, March 31, 2025 at 9:00am

In a previous blog post, I announced that on March 31 (today), I would be removing my print books and ebooks from Amazon. A string of events has caused me to reconsider this approach.

A few weeks ago, I reviewed the membership guidelines for the Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA). These have changed relative to my memory of them (I probably had reviewed them last around 2020). I discovered that I now qualify for an associate membership. I applied for such a membership, and my application was approved last week.

My supporting documentation for my application was my book sales report from Amazon. When I started poking around there, I discovered that books that I unpublish fall off of the report. For example, even though I garnered numerous sales from the versions of my books that I published from 2012-2016, those do not show up on my sales report, because I took them down long ago.

One of my goals now is to achieve full membership status in the SFWA. Taking down my existing books would remove them from the reporting dashboard and massively complicate my efforts to prove my achievement of the sales threshold required for a full membership.

And so, my books are going to stay published for now, and will likely stay up even after I start releasing new editions.