kate rothwell

My reader letter responses:  LETTER #1 Dear Reader, Thank you so much for taking the time to write. I'm very glad you liked my book and I would be extremely grateful if you'd post a review featuring the many paragraphs of praise you give it. Writers love it when readers hit Amazon with their reviews. It is like getting a birthday gift and christmas gift rolled into just a few precious paragraphs. It's better than chocolate cake, a bunch of flowers and a singing telegram performed by [name of famous singer here]. It feels as miraculous and marvelous as finding a open parking space in Manhattan. A letter like yours makes our day brighter. A review saying those same things makes our month brighter. Proclaiming your affection for my book in public is a declaration that echoes the happiest moments of my life, such as when my husband sank to his knee in the Kansas City Airport to ask for my hand in marriage, or the first time my kids called me Mom, or the time I...

Hey, check it out! Summer has a new ebook, Elemental Man , and here's a description of it:   A novella about a superhero.    Caleb is an ordinary guy...except for his bizarre ability to adapt to any situation. Really. Anything goes. Fire and water are no problem for him. Someone is shoving innocents into dangerous situations and Caleb is forced to act again and again. It's up to him to stop the person who's trying to draw him out. He already suspected his attractive neighbor is his stalker and then she demonstrates the rare ability of seeing him as he adapts. After Caleb confronts her, he has another problem on his hands. He's told the innocent civilian Melinda far about himself and she apparently has some extraordinary skills herself. Her rare skills might make Melinda a target of the stalker who's after Caleb. And, thanks to his mistake about her identity, the nuisance of an agency that controls his life has been alerted to her existe...

hey Kate, have you heard back from Amazon? Has your pal Jon Fine figured out what happened? Any word yet?  What was that about? Answer : No; not as far as I know; I've had no word yet.  I have no clue. Okay, maybe I did get a clue, from astute person Jody Wallace, who pointed out that it was likely plagiarism-- again. Will I spend time and energy going after this? Now that the book is down, at last, a stake driven through its heart, I'm less frothing and upset. I got used to pirates, after all. Maybe I'll get used to plagiarists. I hope not.

Hey, about that plagiarized book on your site? I wish you'd send me the money from sales of that book, but you did send me the plagiarists' address and suggest I track him down on my own to get my cash, that's something, I guess. Now it's this new situation that has me perplexed. Someone took the profits from one of my books--a book that was not authorized for sale--and that someone is you. This is from a book I tried to eliminate from your site, but, you told me no, the dashboard is forever. I can't take away anything, just take the book into the draft form and it'll never pop up on the sale page again. You promised! SO imagine my confusion when The Rat Catche r, a book I'd said goodbye and buried forever, suddenly showed up with a BUY IT NOW button. I immediately went to my KDP board and hit the "unpublish button" I hit that baby a lot. Nothing happened. The book stayed up there. So I started writing letters. Here. Let me refresh your ...

My book, Someone To Cherish , has been stolen. The whole thing was copied and pasted and republished as Bad Luck Love's [sic] Me . This isn't the first time I've heard about plagiarized material showing up for sale on Amazon. The last time I saw it, though, the books had been taken from Literotica. This time the books are taken directly from Amazon . So why didn't the stolen manuscript trigger some kind of alert before it got published? Lori Devoti spent a while this afternoon tracking down and finding the other authors who had books stolen by the people who took my book. Not hard--she found a few in less than an hour. So why the hell didn't Amazon? I contacted them hours ago. Why haven't they done anything yet--like maybe, answer my emails? Lots of people have pointed out that that "author" has stolen a bunch of books. Why hasn't Amazon taken down the books' buy buttons? I suppose making people push that little button that says "...

You can buy The Rat Catcher on Kindle. Wow. . . . This really is going to change things in the world of publishing. Seriously. I pontificate at Amazon.