{"id":9352,"date":"2025-03-18T19:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T02:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T02:10:13","slug":"im-enrolling-my-books-in-ku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/im-enrolling-my-books-in-ku\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m enrolling my books in KU!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey there, if you&#8217;ve been with me for awhile, you&#8217;re probably wondering where I went.<br><br>I&#8217;ll be honest and say I nearly gave up writing during a time when I felt like I should have been celebrating my recovery from chemo and radiation for Triple Negative Breast Cancer. It just didn&#8217;t go that way.<br><br>Chemo and radiation took a lot more out of me than I realized. THEN my husband and I contracted COVID for the first time.<br><br>THEN I got depressed. So much so that my mood affected my sleep to the point where I needed to be hospitalized.<br><br>I hope you haven&#8217;t suffered from a long depression. I&#8217;ve had highs and lows before, but never like what I experienced this winter. I&#8217;ve never needed to take depression meds.<br><br>Now, I am on a couple of medications but hope to whittle those down as I continue to heal.<br><br>Long story short, I haven&#8217;t written since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyprocter-king.com\/Books\/before_brady.html\">BEFORE BRADY<\/a> came out.<br><br>***<strong>AND NOW COMES THE BIG CHANGE!!<\/strong>***<br><br>After several years of marketing my books Wide (on all retailers, including Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, Kobo, Google Play, and Apple Books), I&#8217;ve made the decision to go exclusive to Amazon, which might delight you or tick you off.<br><br><em>Yes, I&#8217;m moving my books into Kindle Unlimited!!<\/em><br><br>I&#8217;m excited about this. It will make it easier to schedule promotions. Plus, it gives access to a readership I didn&#8217;t have before.<br><br>Keeping my books wide might look simple. On the back end, life will be less stressful only dealing with one retailer.<br><br>If I find being in KU isn&#8217;t working, then I&#8217;ll put my books wide again but with a more streamlined process behind the scenes.<br><br>As of this typing, my books are in the process of being removed from Google Play, Apple, Kobo, BN, and Draft2Digital, but places like D2D aggregate to third-party retailers and I need to make sure all the books are gone from those retailers before I enroll them in KU.<br><br>I&#8217;ll let you know when the process is complete. For now, my books are available for sale on Amazon as per normal.<br><br>I hope I don&#8217;t lose you as a reader by making this move, but it&#8217;s something I need to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, here&#8217;s a picture of my hair 8 months post-chemo. It&#8217;s at a weird mullet\/shag point of growing out, and I dinna like it very much. I can rock a pixie, but my hair grows fast so short would require Too Many Haircuts. I can&#8217;t wait until it&#8217;s the length it was before, between my chin and shoulders.  But at least I ain&#8217;t bald anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talk soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Short-Hair-Cindy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"254\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Short-Hair-Cindy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Short-Hair-Cindy.jpg 254w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Short-Hair-Cindy-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Short-Hair-Cindy-115x150.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there, if you&#8217;ve been with me for awhile, you&#8217;re probably wondering where I went. I&#8217;ll be honest and say I nearly gave up writing during a time when I felt like I should have been celebrating my recovery from chemo and radiation for Triple Negative Breast Cancer. It just didn&#8217;t go that way. Chemo&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/im-enrolling-my-books-in-ku\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m enrolling my books in KU!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,56,16,44,45,34,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-orchard-books","category-ebooks","category-my-books","category-self-publishing","category-sindie-publishing","category-the-non-writing-life","category-the-writing-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}