Blocked by Amazon
Welcome, officially, to 2025, wherein my first release for the year has officially been banned by Amazon.
It had been my intention to release the third volume of The Horror Book Review Digest, collecting the past several years’ worth of, as the title suggests, horror book reviews I’ve written. Despite my arguments otherwise, the algorithms and AI overlords running the show over Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing have decided to be awfully draconian once more. They have claimed to be unable to confirm that I am proper copyright holder of these works that I have written, and that all information I have provided thus far “is insufficient because of the following concerns:
• Documentation or information explaining the edition previously published on
Amazon has not been provided.
• Documentation has not been provided to confirm you are the original author of
the content.
• Documentation has not been provided to confirm that the author granted you
rights to publish the content.
• Documentation has not been provided to confirm that rights were reverted to
the author from the previous publisher.”
I have, in fact, provided them with documentation that I am the original author of the reviews contained within The Horror Book Review Digest Volume III, and that as author and publisher I have granted myself the right to publish the content. It’s all fallen on deaf, and most likely entirely artificial, ears. And there’s the fact that, you know, I published two entire previous volumes containing reviews without any issues. The third time is, evidently, not the charm after all, and we’ll just have to add Amazon’s inability to confirm my rights as the sole copyright holder to the growing list of other things they’re unable to do, like guaranteeing pre-orders, release-date delivery, and two-day shipping for Prime members.
While you cannot find The Horror Book Review Digest Volume III on Amazon, the good news is you can buy it from me directly! I’ve uploaded The Horror Book Review Digest Volume III to the store right here on this webpage and it’s available now in EPUB format. If you’ve dug my review style or any of my previously published books, this is a great way to show some support for the work I’ve done and, hopefully, find some new favorite books to add to your collections.
(As for the other books I’ve written and that are listed in my webstore here, stay tuned for updated inventories. If you’re interested in purchasing signed copies, I need to go through some clutter and see how many paperbacks I actually have on hand before I can fulfill any orders for physical products. At the moment, the EPUB edition of The Horror Book Review Digest Volume III is the only book I am selling direct.)
Here’s the cover art and synopsis:
“For the last few years, Michael Patrick Hicks has been my go-to for horror novel reviews.”
Tim Meyer, author of Kill Hill Carnage and The Switch House
In addition to crafting his own works of horror, Michael Patrick Hicks has been reviewing books for more than two decades and has written for such outlets as Audiobook Reviewer and Graphic Novel Reporter.
Now, he returns with The Horror Book Review Digest Volume III, his third collection of reviews covering some of the horror genre’s biggest releases and hidden gems from 2021-2024 from authors like Chuck Wendig, Nat Cassidy, V. Castro, Christopher Golden, Tananarive Due, TC Parker, Adam Cesare, Brian Keene, Stephen King, and many, many more.
This third volume of The Horror Book Review Digest features reviews of over 100 books that promise to give you chills and nightmares! Settle in, keep a light on, and find your next great read.
