The KDP Survival Kit is a free resource from BookWriter that helps Kindle Direct Publishing authors prepare for, respond to, and recover from an Amazon KDP account termination. It includes six parts:
A free emergency playbook for indie authors: audit your KDP risk, back up the right files, and know exactly what to do if the termination email lands.
From: kdp-account-team@amazon.com
Subject: Your KDP account has been terminated
We have closed your Kindle Direct Publishing account and are no longer offering you the ability to publish through KDP.
Any unpaid royalties will be withheld.
No further information will be provided.
Hundreds of authors woke up to a one-line email. No reason. No human to call.
“They’re refusing to pay near 6k in royalties. I’m also out $700 in advertising costs, plus now I’m unemployed.”
“I’m extremely desperate, I really don’t know what to do anymore.”
You’ve spent months — maybe years — building a catalog, a review base, an audience. It can be erased in a single afternoon by an algorithm that doesn’t answer email.
Built for indie authors who refuse to let Amazon decide their career.
The exact phrasing, structure, and evidence list documented to work in successful KDP reinstatements. Fill in your details, send, and stop guessing.
A printable one-pager that tells you exactly what to do in the first 24 hours, the first week, and the first month after a termination email lands. No panic. No wasted days.
Every manuscript, sales report, review, and ad campaign safely mirrored off Amazon’s servers. So if they pull the plug, you keep your business.
Vetted contacts at the Alliance of Independent Authors, the Authors Guild, and journalists who’ve covered KDP terminations. Plus the viral-thread playbook one author used to get her account restored after going public.
Screenshot-by-screenshot tutorials for moving your catalog to BookLocker, Draft2Digital, and IngramSpark. So you’re back to earning while your appeal is still pending.
A 12-question self-check that flags the exact KDP policy tripwires authors don’t realize they’re stepping on — duplicate content, AI disclosure, keyword stuffing, fake reviews, royalty manipulation.
The ones that do almost always share three things in common: the authors had backups, they used the right escalation language, and they moved fast.
This kit gives you all three before you need them.
All it costs is your email — because we’d rather have 10,000 authors protected than 100 authors who paid.
Download the kit now. Read it once. Sleep better tonight.
P.S. — If your account is already terminated, download anyway and reply to the welcome email with the word URGENT. We’ll send the appeal-letter template within the hour.