I am almost to publish date for Book #2 in the Clancy Mountain Series, hit a speed bump. Their A.I. review process for the manuscript went insane and said there was a problem, that it was not allowed to say "Printed in" or "Uses Recycled Paper"....neither of which I did, of course. So, I can't remove what isn't there. Because of all the fraudulent books written by A.I. bots, I had added a disclaimer that the book was written entirely from the author's own imagination, and the cover was designed by the author using a digitally-generated image, then refining the elements of it, the layout and manually adding cover typography. A.I. flagged my transparency statement that says I did not use A.I. to write this book and I designed the cover.
I need to get a human to get on it tomorrow so I am not held up for another two weeks, but once they straighten it out, we're good to go. I assume it was the word "typography" that sic'd their robots on me, giving it a false positive. I asked on the internet what would have caused them to flag the manuscript and they say it was the words "A.I." and "generated" though the meaning was the opposite of what the bots picked up. The A.I. internet gurus suggested I hide my transparency statement in the back of the book to make it less likely to be flagged. Say what? Hide a transparency statement, sheesh.
The cover is ready and I updated the cover for the first book to reflect that it is #1 in a series and to make the covers look cohesive, as if they are part of a set. I'm about 29K words into Book #3 now. The first book had 60K, the second 75K and I have no idea how long this one will be, maybe in between the first two in word count.
Would you like to see a preview of the cover for Book #2 and the revamped Book #1 cover?
