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Smut Slingers
Smutslinger
The less better half of a two person publishing team
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Post by downtown on Jul 31, 2018 15:07:27 GMT
I know there's some conventional wisdom around the fact that certain words can get a book blocked, but are there any resources out there that compile a list of known naughty words?
Incest and rape are the obvious ones, but I've also heard people say you can't use "virgin" in your blurb or title (though people obviously still do), which I'm not sure I would have thought of.
Any good resources you guys know about?
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Jul 31, 2018 16:32:49 GMT
https://www.reddit.com/r/eroticauthors/comments/7joepr/faq_thread_what_is_adultfiltering_what_makes/
This erotica subreddit has a ton of helpful stickies on the sidebar, and this one lists all of the current known banned words.
One thing to remember, of course, with all things amazon is that they are consistently inconsistent with their enforcement. I know a couple months ago the erotica store was full of "daddy" titles, so they were letting authors get away with it. There's usually a big purge every once in a while, typically after they get bad publicity or a ton of customer complaints, and then they go through and block/ban everything that's not allowed, and sometimes add new stuff without telling you. But then once the heat and attention go away they back off and allow the ulta naughty again cos they know it sells really, really well.
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Post by corabuhlert on Aug 4, 2018 1:40:13 GMT
I used the word "rape" in the blurb of one of my mysteries and it always stuck ages in review, compared to all other books in the same series. Mind you, there is no on-page rape in the book and indeed the book starts with a serial rapist/killer lying dead in the woods. Nonetheless, once I took the r-word out of the blurb, the book suddenly went live much faster after updates.
"Slut" is another term that Amazon doesn't like. I use it in the blurb of an obviously non-erotica and non-romance book and it always takes ages to go live after an update. I haven't found a way to replace it in the blurb yet either.
Coincidentally, that certain trigger words get flagged by Amazon even with non-erotica and non-romance books makes including trigger warnings in the blurb very difficult, because the trigger warning will promptly trigger Amazon's filter.
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