My fellow
Stibbonites,
I stand
before you today, heart in hand, a proud and profoundly honored writer of smut
whose efforts have finally received the recognition they deserved.
A certain Bond-villain-looking
man’s policies at Amazon KDP have removed my book “Adventures of Alexa (Book
2): Scandal of the Forbidden Picture” from their platform in 11 countries.
Which,
technically, makes me an almost worldwide banned author. Boom, baby! That’s an
instant hall of fame backstage pass if ever there was one!
M. R.
Stibbons banned in 11 countries... my stuff is that dirty, yes. It’s now
official.
After several
humorously futile attempts at communicating with Amazon’s customer support in
the hopes of resolving the issue, I only got the same copy-pasted response
again and again: "the content of your book violates our content policies". The
nice Indian folk at CS never specified whether the "problem" was in the book’s
content or the cover itself nor were they open to any discussion.
To be honest,
I’ve had warmer and far more friendly and helpful chats with AI chatbots.
But judging
from the fact that my book “Adventures of Alexa (Book 1): Curse of the Horny
Ruby” has not be removed, I would guess that what rubbed the
Bond-villain-looking man the wrong way was the cover.
In other
words, the “Scandal of the Forbidden Picture” did indeed contain a forbidden picture
for the moral standards of someone who is OK with the idea that a person 18
years of age can pursue a career in porn, but God forbid they have a watered-down
beer.
So, not to
toot my own horn, but I’m also kind of a prophet. Like the Simpsons or
something…