They spring these things on you... Amazon and the rest... After four years and one day...

After four years and one day selling this book, Amazon tell me...

All this time, I've been happy... Amazon's been happy...

and now.... I start an advertising campaign for my Short Story Series (OsssOss Books) and of the ten books in the series so far, this one is rejected. Shock Horror! After a dozen similar advert runs in the past, it has been decided that this image....

• "Your ad contains content prohibited from advertising. This may include images and videos of weapons (including realistic and non-realistic firearms, swords, bows and arrows, etc.) that are shown in a violent, threatening manner, displayed in a gruesome way, pointed at a character, or directed out toward the customer. Please review section 6.4 Weapons under Book Advertising Guidelines and Acceptance Policies and update your ad."

Which means - have you worked it out among their dubious punctuation and grammar?

They don't like the girl at the top pointing a gun at customers.

Either that, or they're not keen on the young feller on the right holding a power-drill as if it was a gun?

So, anyway, I've spent the morning changing the pictures; bit or re-organising, and I'll upload the final one onto KDP as a new, and unexpected, relaunch of the book, before the weekend, God, Amazon and my computer willing. I do, however, refuse to change the two picture of my kids. And I hope they haven't got anything against pints of beer on display. Or women..? Or joggers..? is holding hands too much?

This one, maybe? Same 29 fab little stories, a different visual slant. It'll be out there in eBook, paperback, Kindle Select and audiobook by the weekend.