Important Notice

On Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026, at 4:39 a.m., we received notice via email from our print-on-demand and distribution service (Amazon KDP) stating, “We are terminating your account effective immediately because we have found activities in your account trying to manipulate our services.” All FutureCycle Press titles in both paperback and Kindle formats were summarily removed from Amazon and its sister site, Goodreads, which housed our 274-title catalog. We maintain that we have strictly adhered to all platform guidelines and suspect this removal is the result of an error by an automated system or an outside actor over which we have no control. Despite our immediate and repeated outreach, standard support channels have not provided specific evidence or a human response. We are told only that this decision is final.

What we are doing

  • Escalation: We are escalating a formal appeal directly to Amazon's executive review teams to bypass the automated systems and reinstate the titles.

  • Contingency Planning: We are evaluating the logistical requirements of reformatting and migrating the entire catalog to alternative print-on-demand and distribution services. This is a time-intensive process for a small staff, but we are actively mapping contingency plans.
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    What authors can do

  • Contact Us: Email us directly at futurecyclepress@gmail.com with only your name (as it appears on your cover) as the subject.

  • Next Steps: We will reply initially with a templated email outlining clear choices for how you wish your book to be handled moving forward.

  • Please Note: We cannot personally respond at this stage because we must focus solely on mitigation and preventing collateral damage to all of our authors. We know you are understandably upset, as are we. We strongly advise authors not to attempt republishing their FutureCycle Press titles independently while our executive appeal is active, as this may trigger automated platform flags for duplicate content or plagiarism. Answer our email, and we’ll be better able to coordinate with and help you, however you choose to proceed.

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    Future updates

    We will post all major status reports on this page as we gain more information and map our way forward. Thank you for your patience. Rest assured that we are pursuing this matter in earnest. Nothing is more important to us than keeping your work alive and available. We’ve all worked too hard on these books to accept that they could be disappeared without a trace.

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    Poetry

    We publish contemporary poetry books and anthologies in English. Our list is eclectic, our intention to capture the spirit of our time through the vital art of poetry. For fifteen years, we have awarded the annual FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize with honorarium for the best original volume of poetry published by us. Our Selected Poems series highlights contemporary poets with a substantial body of work. Our Good Works projects—anthologies to benefit charity—showcase individual works. In short: We are a small press determined to look like a big one.

    Quality

    Some of the best poets writing today are represented in our catalog. We collaborate with our authors to make our titles the best they can be, and we do take our editorial role very seriously. We pride ourselves on our skill and the care we give the books we publish—in both print-on-demand and Kindle editions.

    Availability

    In a world where poetry is both ubiquitous and unlikely to be profitable, we strive to keep our titles in print and widely available. Poetry matters so much, we believe, that we give away all of our titles free in Kindle format on a rotating basis! Both we and our authors have worked very hard on these books, and we want everyone to be able to read them.

    Submissions

    Please review our guidelines before submitting your work. Our downloadable PDF Guide for Authors, essential reading for those whose book manuscripts we accept, is a window into our approach and process. The Guide answers many questions those considering submitting to us may have. (We only accept submissions through Submittable, and only for what we are asking for at any given time, so please understand that any non-compliant submissions must be ignored.)