Dear Fellow Writers:

I woke up this morning to find that I could not log into my account at Yahoo.com. I have had this account since 2002 and my address was:

Caroldenise2002.yahoo.com. All day I tried to access this account to no avail. With no access I had to close all of my facebook, linked and ebay accounts; social accounts and anything with the aforementioned email address. And then, I had to forward everything to my new email address: CDMbooks.aol.com.

I had to go to Paypal and enter all new information and anyplace where I had the Yahoo Account - I had to change and switch everything to my new email account and I am still not done yet.

Yahoo has not handled this situation well at all! I am writing to all who have email accounts to warn you that you have to be ready in case you wake up and are shut out of your main email account.

Prepare and have at least two alternative accounts that can support your important writing business. I have researched other victims of being locked out of email accounts and was shocked at what I found. One business man was locked out of his account for weeks; and another sent so many messages to Yahoo - she thought she was spamming.

Thanks to Authorsden - who made the switch of email addresses easy for me. With Ebay I had to start all over again.

Because I can't imagine having another day like this one - I will never open up another Yahoo account as long as I live. The service has been out over 24-hours. There is no telephone number to access; no human that can promise me the account will be restored. Therefore, the best thing is to shut this account down.

Thanks for allowing me to share this with you. Be careful and be aware!

Author, Carol Denise Mitchell