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How to Bounce Back When Life Throws You Nasty Curveballs

I woke up thinking it was going to be one of the best days of my life and it ended up being one of the worst.

I check my phone — expecting to see sales for my new book rolling in.

Instead?

My inbox is flooded with reply emails from the automated e-mail message I’d sent out the promote the book on launch day.

“Amazon says your book isn’t available.”

“Your book page says there are major quality issues with your book.”

“I don’t know if you know this but […]”

I spent a year working on this book. I’ve never worked harder on anything in my entire life.

I created an affiliate marketing campaign for the book and had others sending messages to their tribes about the book — some of them sent out messages to their tribes before I could alert them about the issue.

Regardless of how I bounced back (which I did) a certain number of those sales were gone forever — thousands of clicks sent to a dead Amazon page.

One reader even replied to me saying “If you want to give people self-help advice, maybe start with learning how to properly self-publish a book.”