This happens sometimes, it's normal. It's been times when my books took a day and a half to come up. That's why they say it can take up to 72 hours. No need in contacting Amazon because they can't do anything about it. Once it's in the system all you can do is wait. The most they can tell you is if it's a glitch but they can't manually move it along.

I do preorders all the time but I don't do placeholders. I only put my books up when they are finished.

Quote from: TimothyEllis on October 04, 2024, 02:00:43 PM

Post the cover?

It's live as a preorder everywhere else:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/candy-crone-a-l-hawke/1146350695?ean=2940186140306

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

Just wondering though if the bots thought it was AI generated, and you answered no? Just guessing.

Quote from: TimothyEllis on October 04, 2024, 11:56:55 AM

Unless something on the cover also triggered the bots, such as keywords in the title and sub-title, or not allowed words. That's what gets a lot of low content rejected.

I hope it’s not keywords. Could be. I’d take a look, but I honestly can’t recall the words I used—and since it’s frozen, there’s no way for me to check. Plan is to contact them tomorrow at the 72 hour mark.

Post the cover?

Without. And I've never put a preorder up with over a month before release. Not sure if that matters??

Have you seen delays when the manuscript isn't submitted? It's annoying because I could have submitted it if I had thought it'd matter. The body of the book is ready to go too.

I've not seen a delay without the book content, no.

The content can often trigger the bots, and that delays things while they go through additional checks. But the raw pre-order shouldn't be taking that long.

Unless something on the cover also triggered the bots, such as keywords in the title and sub-title, or not allowed words. That's what gets a lot of low content rejected.

I'm due for a new pre-order next week, but mine always have 2 months minimum to allow for something going wrong. I'll see what happens to my next one.

With or without the book content itself?