Wednesday, July 22, 2026 – Orlando, Florida
I’m pleased to announce that the latest batch of edits to The Jim Garraty Chronicles—specifically, the corrections I made this weekend and on Monday to the Reunion: Coda section of the omnibus—has made it through Kindle Direct Publishing’s production pipeline and is now visible in the Kindle edition.
I saw this for myself this morning. As I usually do after uploading revisions to KDP, I removed the local download of the book from my Kindle app and then downloaded it again from the cloud. I did not delete the title from my Amazon account or library; I simply removed the older, flawed file from the device and replaced it with the corrected edition of The Jim Garraty Chronicles. For readers who already own a Kindle book, Amazon’s official guidance is that updated versions may appear through Manage Your Content and Devices when an “Update Available” option exists, or automatically if Automatic Book Update is turned on and the device is connected to Wi-Fi.
In theory, the fixes should also be present in the Chronicles paperback edition, but I’m going to wait a few days before ordering a new copy. Back in 2023, not long after I arrived in Madison, New Hampshire, at the start of what was supposedly a permanent move, I revised Reunion: A Story for what felt like the millionth time. I was already familiar with Amazon/KDP’s republishing timeline, so I waited several days before going through the Kindle download swap and ordering a fresh paperback. The Kindle edition had successfully absorbed the edits, so I reasonably expected the paperback to reflect the same corrections when it arrived at the house I once referred to as “Echo Base.”
A week later—Amazon Prime usually subcontracted rural New Hampshire deliveries to UPS, FedEx, and the U.S. Postal Service, which meant far longer wait times—I received a brand-new copy of Reunion: A Story. I eagerly opened the white-and-blue shipping envelope, withdrew the novella, and turned to the pages where I had made the revisions.
To my horror, Amazon, in its infinite wisdom, had sent me the earlier, slightly flawed version of the book I had revised 10 days before. I wasn’t angry, not exactly—just disappointed that after going through the edit-and-revise process for the nth time, uploading a .kpf file to KDP, and seeing the fruits of my hard work on my Fire tablet, Amazon had sent me a new paperback printed from the previous edition’s master file. I eventually gave that copy to the other tenant in the house, Stuart; I figured he wouldn’t be too bothered by the admittedly minor flaw in the text that bugged me. To this day, I don’t know if he kept the book and read it after I returned to Miami 10 months later, nor do I really care. I just didn’t toss my book into a trash can, you know?
Anyhoo, I’m going to wait a few more days before ordering a new copy of The Jim Garraty Chronicles or sending one to a friend in Miami. Chances are, of course, that history won’t repeat itself and that the text in the paperback will match the Kindle edition. Still, you never know about these things.
If you’ve been meaning to visit—or revisit—Jim Garraty’s world, this is a good time to do it. The Jim Garraty Chronicles: A Life Told in Four Movements brings together Reunion, Reunion: Coda, Comings and Goings, and the bonus origin story The Summer of Two Movies. The individual titles in the series, including Reunion: A Story, are also available through Amazon. Purchases are always appreciated, of course, but honest reader reviews matter even more: they help other readers discover the books, and they give independent authors like me a fighting chance in Amazon’s crowded marketplace.
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