GoodReads is ruining my life because I'm an idiot

It took me a while to find an appropriate photo for this entry

So, I'm an idiot.

I was so excited last week despite the fact that nobody was reading my book since it wasn't free anymore.

I was further delighted last night when someone came along and bought my little 99 cent experiment. Some person out there actually thought enough of my concept to come along and purchase my little book...and hopefully read it.




Imagine my dismay when I woke up this morning to discover that the GoodReads account that I attempted to create for my author profile had taken over my actual profile.

Now, to be clear, I'm not terrified that someone will find out that I'm writing gay tentacle erotica and the other kinds of erotica that I have coming out soon but I did not intend to advertise that fact to the friends that I have slowly picked up over the last thirty years of my life.
I don't think that anyone can see who I am for now but I'm not sure. I'm considering deleting my personal account on goodreads which would be unfortunate since I've been using that platform for years; I think five years.

I've left questions on two forums and send the admin three emails asking for some help in resolving this issue but I have little hope that anyone will respond soon since it took almost two weeks for my author page application to be accepted. In the time since I submitted that application I've created a separate account for this  pen name and submitted another application to have it linked with the author page.

Unfortunately I seem to be the only one that this has happened to which makes me feel like a complete moron. If I hadn't been so quick, in my excitement,  to create a online footprint for this pseudonym this all could have been prevented.

Anyways, I'm just venting because I'm so distressed about this that I'm having trouble focusing.

Perhaps my little rant will prevent this from happening from anyone else. It probably shouldn't be a concern for most people, though. Since this only happened because, again, I'm an idiot.


Here's a little blues song, "Crazy Blues," that I happened across in the public domain at Wikimedia Commons:
By "Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds", Perry Bradford (The Internet Archive) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons


Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AB%C3%A2illement_hyst%C3%A9rique_(5389383519).jpg