Whoops! New Novel on Amazon for a second!

Yesterday while playing with the 'keywords' in Amazon's KDP, I accidentally hit 'Publish'!

There's no way to cancel this action, which I find strange. You have to wait until the book becomes 'LIVE' and then immediately 'Unpublish'.

Problem is, the book is then on Amazon but 'unavailable'. 

It was once... invisible to the world and now it is visible... with the wrong cover. I'm waiting on a new version of the cover from a friend of an acquaintance.

I've given up on the last submission. Another acquaintance said they'd give me a 'shout out' through their email system, so hopefully that's still on. 

All I need is some readers, some recognition, some people who see there's some worth in all this...

Anyway...Book coming soon!

New Novel Rejections

Although my writing has been described in many ways as a mix of both Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, no one wants my latest...
Four Rejections so far...

"While I did enjoy some of your worldbuilding details... overall the story does not match up well with the other stories I am publishing. There is a lot of imagination here, but it is just not what I am looking for right now."

"I'm sorry it didn't strike me as quite suitable to our present needs."

"We're not publishing new authors at this moment..."

[...silence...]

To think you can write a book and get it published by someone is a bit of a dream.

Publishers already have their next publishable book in mind and get people to write them. If you write a book, they don't want to know.

You can get lucky, like JK Rowling — the story: an enthusiastic reader of a literary agency gets her represented, she is rejected by 12 publishing houses, and is only taken on by Bloomsbury because the chairman's eight-year-old daughter demanded to read more, and even then she is told to get a day job. The rest is history.

That kind of success is rare and a writer's dream. 

I don't need that dream, I just need a little recognition. 

"Who? Oh, him... didn't he write...? Yeah, I liked that." 

That kind of thing.

Dani's Shorts 8+ is still FREE (like forever)...   https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1028761