Just a heads up that for some reason the bit.ly version of my newsletter link is down. I haven't changed the redirect in years. It's still just an ordinary Mailchimp newsletter. Nothing weird or nefarious going on. No idea what's happened at bit.ly. But the author newsletter hasn't vanished and it hasn't started spamming people. So weird.
I'm waiting for bit.ly to get back to me about the appeal I filed. They seem to have updated their system or something recently and the link got banjaxed in the process. And they're saying they have an usually high number of appeals being filed which makes me think it's something on their end. The underlying link to my newsletter sign up is the same and nothing has changed to suddenly make things break on my end, so... Here we are. I'm not sure how long this will take to fix.
SO since I've used the shorten URL in most of my books in the last few years, that link inside the books isn't working at the moment. I'm waiting to see if bit.ly fixes the issue before I go through and redo all the books.
In the meantime, I've used the regular non-pretty link on this site--the imbedded form below this and the link in the menu above all direct to the proper newsletter sign up landing page. I've fixed the link in my Linktr.ee links, too, so that goes to the newsletter sign up landing page.
And you can click HERE FOR THE NEWSLETTER SIGN UP LANDING PAGE, if you've been wanting to sign up but haven't yet. New subscribers do get a couple of exclusive stories, one in my Tiger Shifter series (that's hot romance) and one in my Cary Redmond series. Those are still up for grabs to subscribers!
As soon as I know whether or not bit.ly is going to fix the link, I'll post an update here. Fingers crossed! Technology is both a wonder and a bane.
Thanks all!
~Kat
