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I Love Smashwords

26/9/2019

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​I wrote a book a while back about International Trade - sent it out into the ether and waited to make money - quick as a flash, nothing happened!

Turns out that part of the books' text contained some link to an Amazon site - big no-no, apparently.

So after a lot of argie-bargie, we figured out the problem and my book is finally published - so , as you do, I decided to write a little rhyme about the whole experience - well, why not do a bit of double dipping?

So here we go:

GOTTA LOVE SMASHWORDS
Wrote a book
Happy with it, take a look …. Nobody did
 
Apparently, I included a link that was not right, OK
That big dog company that starts with “A” and ends in “zon”
 
Who da thunk it?
 
Took me weeks to work it out – what tha??
Let it go for months, no telling how many royalties I lost
How do you compute that cost?
 
My Book finally got published tonight.
What a palaver!
Some erroneous links, almost a cadaver!
 
Stone bloody dead mate, and I couldn’t find them
My mates at Smashwords, god bless em!
 
Who knew? A conundrum
Alt + F9 – damn – found ‘em
 
Yowser!!
No more links, bloody Amazon.
The elephant in the room in more ways than one.
 
All those lost royalties..
 
I s’pose it helps if you read the Style Guide.
You get busy, you forget, you put it to one side,
 
probably would be better to publish a real book,
with a real editor to overlook
 
but, hey, where’s the fun in that?
I’ll probably self-publish the next one, too,
which will include this little tome,
and this little poem  ..
 
well it will be a book of poetry
and Amazon won’t get a look in
Self publishing should be a win-win
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