A lot has happened, friends.
There's a lot of censorship going around as Amazon doubles down on the narrative that you can sexually exploit someone who doesn't exist, even though this only seems to affect Japanese or Japanese-inspired content. Quite a few titles have been removed from Amazon. Some time after that, someone threatened to report my books on Amazon in the hopes of getting them removed as well. Not particularly sure why anyone would do that. Maybe it's the rape and torture scenes in SWS?
Going off of Amazon's track history removing titles, it occurred to me that my work really could be removed for arbitrary reasons such as that. I'm a strong opponent against censorship in art and in general, so I refused to continue working through Amazon any longer and have removed my books from their store. Honestly, Amazon's print quality is trash anyway. If anyone is going to be paying hard-earned money for my books, I'd like to assure they're getting the best print I can possibly give them.
So, I got to work on making my website where I sell my books. That way, Amazon doesn't get their protection money, I can offer signed copies, and you guys can get the best quality physical copies.
(Unfortunately, I can't use the red themed covers for this series, as they don't work too well in print. So, I went back to the original, minimalist design for SWS's physical copies.)
You can pre-order book of blossoming here now
https://www.tonbogiribooks.com/books/book-of-blossomingI'm also taking this opportunity to fix some minor mistakes and add some scenes here and there. There's some particularly interesting additions regarding Taeko, Ebina, and a rather bleak lie that Taeko fed her about their mother.
Thank you all for your continued support. I hope you enjoy this censorship-free edition of Book of Blossoming.