I already have my suspicions. I'm waiting to gain access back to book info. Right now it's locked. I'm planning on just deleting all words that could be construed as sexual when I gain access back to KDP--probably will just do it anyway for fear of it returning back whenever I update the book, even if customer service can delete the category.

We had a thread about keywords. You can see how focused I get on keywords, I have no idea what I entered. But here's another area we need to be careful about there.

Quora has a set of moderation bots which trigger on keywords. They started out deleting answers which touched on underage sex in any way. Then it became under 20 sex. Then under thirty. Now it seems you can't mention it at all without the bots deleting the post. The stupid thing is they don't delete the questions, which are asking for that kind of answer, so now there's questions which never have any answers, and people complaining theirs got deleted. It's just an insane version of woke.

The danger is that Amazon's bots head down the same path.

All the bots are just bad code, and the more they monkey with them, the worse they get. And they were bad enough with Romance already.

You just have to be so careful now. I've stopped going there in my novels completely. Both my last two MC's haven't been involved with anyone at all.

That's the danger Romance novels always have.

It only takes the wrong keyword, and you get dungeoned. Presumably one of them triggered a bot, or something in the blurb triggered it.

So maybe post the blurb in the blurb private area, so those who know can check it for bad choices.

I put up a book for pre-order with only the cover and no ms., and Amazon confirmed it within about three hours. Neither slow nor fast.

Of late, the confirmations of buying a book have arrived fairly late, even when the book itself loaded on my Kindle promptly.

I think this calls for a 

First in series always take longer.

But not that long usually.

But I've noticed the pre-order lock down gap got a little longer a while ago as well.

My guess is Amazon are playing around with more extensive tests of what gets uploaded, and some of them are taking too long.

It's also possible so many people are answering no to AI, but the submission is obviously AI, that Amazon has had to up it's detection abilities, and that is slowing things down.

Nothing wrong with that, other than my blood sugar spiked just looking at it.

It's not AI generated. I found the model myself on Deposit Photo. But the veneer of illusion with the food is AI-esque, so I could see it being thought of as AI. I'm gonna contact them.