Did your pre-order of BELL HAMMERS on Amazon get cancelled?

Here’s what happened:

• Back in January, Amazon committed to handling pre-orders and fulfillment for the October 12, 2020 release of BELL HAMMERS.
• Many of you pre-ordered from them both in January and now.
• BELL HAMMERS sold out twice.
• After learning from many of you that Amazon cancelled your generous pre-orders, I spent many hours on the phone this week seeking answers from them and INGRAM, my publisher.
• The answer? Amazon refused to help me resolve the pre-order cancellation because they do not hold the Kindle Direct Publishing rights for a paperback version of BELL HAMMERS, despite this being a hardcover and ebook release only.  
• This is an attempt by Amazon to grab the paperback rights for my book, in order for them to increase their profits.
• I will not cow to Amazon’s bullying and have discovered that this has been happening frequently to other authors. (more details will follow).

HOW TO ORDER BELL HAMMERS:

• If you are interested in supporting bookstores owned by people of color, your local small or rural bookstore AND the USPS — all of whom Amazon has hurt — AND in helping to get the word out about BELL HAMMERS, please click here to let Indie Bound find your nearest bookstore and purchase from them during this pandemic.
  
•  Other ways to purchase: Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, Walmart, Powell’s, and wherever else fine hardbacks of BELL HAMMERS are sold.

Amazon ultimately picked the wrong underdog author to pick on, considering the very content of BELL HAMMERS. A more emotional post — and rallying cry — will follow.

For now, thank you for preordering once.

Thank you for preordering a second time: especially those who preordered even more the second time around.

Most importantly — completely apart from BELL HAMMERS — THANK YOU for supporting your local bookstores and the USPS whenever you are able.

Until The End,