Attention bookstores who chose distribution through Spring Arbor.

Initially I had my books submitted for approval to Spring Arbor thinking that this would make it easier for my blatantly Christian readers to find my work. It was not divulged at the time by either distributor that Spring Arbor was Ingram's CBA's exclusive fundamentalist Christian arm. I'd only ever seen wording that suggested this exclusive Christian arm of Ingram was for all publishers who seemed to have a large blatantly Christian following and wanted to get their work in front of those readers. After all, Spring Arbor approves books by publishers who don't belong to Spring Arbor's non-CBA market. I know, right?

How ridiculous to waste a publisher's time by suggesting approval to a particular targeted and discriminative market would give that non-participating publisher access to that market. But hey that's Ingram and they can do whatever they like.

Since belonging to Spring Arbor does nothing for non-CBA participating publishers or authors (except to make the books available for purchase through participating bookstores who won't allow non-participating publishers in, I will withdraw my approval.

This actually doesn't affect anything BUT for those Christian bookstores who only sign up with Spring Arbor to get the few CBA titles they want (which they have to buy so many of that they can't afford to stock non-CBA Christian titles, you'll have to order my books directly from Ingram. I've no intention of being a token publisher to an industry that discriminates based on denomination. If you're a bookstore who only accepts books through Spring Arbor then that would make you a fundamentalist discriminating bookstore and well you'll be happy to know you'll never be able to make any money off my titles. ;)

My books are available anywhere the sun shines and everywhere it doesn't but as of today, they will NOT be available for you to order through ANY Christian bookstore that orders through Spring Arbor. DUH!

Thanks Spring Arbor for being so up front about things. LSI too. They didn't say one word about it.