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New chapters soon, sorry for the delay. We had a death in the family we had to attend to for the past few days and I fell a bit behind. Don't worry, I'm fine. My wife was hit much harder than me by it.

However, Solar Dragons 5  and Succubus Summoner 2 are in the final stretch and I should start commissioning new art soon. We are also working on Master Class 3 now. But there is something you all should know. I posted about it on Discord but I'll post it here for those who didn't see it.

As of this week, Amazon has made a change that forces all books with sexual content to self-report, resulting in instant search results censorship. We have a lot of questions right now but it looks like our options are as follows:

Write the same stuff and self-report the truth about our content and make an estimated 1/4 of the profits we were expecting from now on.

Write the same stuff and directly lie to Amazon about the presence of adult content and possibly face a ban from Kindle if we are caught.

Move to “fade to black” sex scenes and possibly put sex scenes as bonus content on our Patreons.

This means a lot of series will have to be canceled and a lot of authors will likely quit the industry. Deacon Frost reported that his own profits went down 66% after opting to comply right away. Those of us who try our best to persevere will need your help and support. Please spread the word so the haremlit fanbase knows what’s going on.  Thank you.

Comments

Brandon Wheeler

I don't quite understand, how would self reporting and complying undermine profits? Does it censor your works so only people searching for it will see it? Genuinely curious is all

Ben

Do you think putting a link in the beginning of each book for a read along pdf would work? So in kindle you could say something like "transition to scene 7 in pdf" for continued story and just put the usual scenes there? I would be willing to keep a second pdf viewer app up to flip back and forth if needed so you don't take a revenue hit. Might be another incentive for patreons if you include an even better/longer download version of the scenes for them? I know it's more work for you but just one idea, please don't give up writing we can be flexible to make it work out!

Austin verm

I’m sorry for your loss!

Julian

First of all, Virgil I am sorry for your loss. You have my condolences. Also I have been reading the same exact thing from other authors that I am subscribed to here on Patreon. It really is unfortunate. Question though, do you set the prices for your books or does Amazon do that?

Joshua Morton

I am sorry for your loss! I know Eric Vall has released one of his books exclusively off of amazon through bookfunnel. Is that a possibility for your books as well just thought that might be another option.

DatGuyBidu

maybe do a ftb version on amazon but release a spicy epub on a patreon tier? perhaps with a different cover art (way spicier) just for the flex.

Julian

You know Virgil, you could create your own website to have people pay for your books and use BookFunnel to get them onto kindle. I've seen Eric Vall use it as a way to get a book or two onto kindle without having to go through Amazon's reading and approval algorithms.