UPDATE: The Sewer Answered Back!
I am overjoyed to share that the “shouting” worked. Google Play Books has officially reinstated my account! It turns out that letting go and trusting the process (and a bit of divine intervention) was exactly what was needed.
To celebrate Holy Week, I’m offering “His Crime Was Love” for FREE from April 1st through April 5th.

It’s available from Amazon as a Kindle Ebook

and as an audiobook from

Spotify
Thank you to everyone who prayed for my husband and me while we battled that elephant-sized cold and this technical headache. We are on the mend, the books will soon be live, and the “balloon” has landed safely back in our hands!

Last Saturday, Mar 21, I ended my evening by submitting my audiobook, “His Crime Was Love”, to the Google Play Store for publication. I had already successfully submitted it to Amazon and Bookshare, a reading service for the print-disable community, in ebook format, and to Spotify, in audiobook format. All had approved my submission, and I had no reason to expect Google Play would be any different.

Except it was. I was notified that my account had been deactivated and told to fill out a form if I wanted to appeal the decision. I did that. As of today, Mar. 28, I have heard absolutely nothing from Google as to why they deactivated my account. All correspondence to their support forum has gone unanswered, and someone calling themselves a google expert in their community forum told me to read the content guidelines before publishing. I have read those guidelines, and I don’t understand why my book, which is a reverent retelling of the crucifixion from Jesus’s viewpoint, should trigger such a reaction. But it has.

I don’t know what else to do. I feel like I’m shouting down a sewer.

So I guess the only thing I can do is let go & hope God helps me take care of it. Google Play has definitively been the worst customer lack-of-service I’ve experienced in a very long while. I don’t feel I’ve been treated anywhere remotely fairly, and I’ve been thoroughly and effectively stonewalled with no recourse. It feels like I’m being executed without knowing what the charges are against me. It’s extraordinarily disheartening. But I can’t waste any more time on it. I’ve got stuff to do, and I have a cold that feels like it was reserved for an elephant. So onward and upward like that balloon. Perhaps it’ll get resolved, perhaps not. I wish it would, because it’s yet another avenue to share my book. But I think only God (and Google, who seems to think they’re an acceptable surrogate), can move it along now.

If anyone has any suggestions, I’m all ears. And maybe please pray for Hubby and me to help us get rid of this behemoth cold.

Deuteronomy 31:8 It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

God is bigger than Google.

Naa! naa!

naa!!

naa! naa!

So there!