It is the ass. Ass. Amazon doesn't like thongs and asses on their product titles. You can put "punishing the neighbor brat's backdoor" on your title, but put an almost naked but like you'd see walking down the streets of Phoenix and you're adult filtered!
I prepared a whole list of new covers and titles in case my second book was adult dungeoned, but it wasn't. That one made it through, and even though it is the same model, in the same clothes, and nearly the same title, it made it through the adult dungeon filter. Yes, it is in erotica, which is great, but it made it clean through the adult filter. Guess what? The distinguishing feature: no exposed ass. Cleavage, yes, long bare legs, yes, but no rear end.
"Rec Center Backdoor" had ass on the cover. I'm starting to think the blurb was fine. It was the gratuitous ass showing up on the cover even though it was an innocuous workout outfit, still presented too much underbun for the amazon people.
I think I get it now; no more butts on covers.
That is a shame because I'm finding out my niche is younger woman, older man anal.
So, I'm less upset with amazon today, thought still, 1 week later STILL my book is sitting in "publishing" purgatory doing nothing. One fucking week! Insane! I've had one message saying that the technicians are aware of it. I'm doubtful they're working hard on a 10,000 word smut novel.
So I'm going to include another snippit of it so someone can read it.
See the snippit of my "publishing" purgatory book, "My muse is the neighbor's au pair brat," on my website: jocelynlily.com