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Joseph Mitchell · 12-31-2010, 01:53 AM

I need to chime in again and make myself more clear. Createspace, like Amazon's Digital Text Platform, is a system set up to run automatically. It processed orders and does its thing with no help from human overseers in the best cases, which is what they would aim for all of the time. Normally, no one at Createspace would ever try to proofread your manuscript, unless you make special arrangements for that, which you did. You did not need to do this at all. You could have simply submitted your work to the machine, and the machine would have done it's thing and published your novel. No problem. But by inviting them into the editing process, you make them part of it, and for some reason or another, most likely legal concerns, they don't want to be associated directly with what's written. Had you not invited them to participate directly, chances are that your book would have passed through the system without warnings and there would be no problem.
My suggestion before, that you could edit it yourself or get someone to help you, I still think is your best course of action. Edit your work and resubmit it with the aim of letting it pass through the system automatically, as I'm sure hundreds of people do every day. It's possible that they might have flagged the title as something they won't accept, but even that, I doubt. Your book will have some sort of invoice number in their database that is currently flagged to not be published. If you delete that title and resubmit it as a new work, it should get a new entry in their database that is clean and ready to be processed automatically. I can't believe that they would 'blacklist' you as an author and never publish another book you've written based on this single case, so I think you should simply scrap this 'attempt' to publish, and resubmit. Change the title if you must, but I doubt that's even necessary. The system wants to run automatically, and it does, unless you force them to take an active part. I hope this helps you see this problem in perspective, ForestCraig. Good luck!

12-31-2010, 01:53 AM	#20
Joseph Mitchell Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 40000 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Pennsylvania, US Device: PC, other	I need to chime in again and make myself more clear. Createspace, like Amazon's Digital Text Platform, is a system set up to run automatically. It processed orders and does its thing with no help from human overseers in the best cases, which is what they would aim for all of the time. Normally, no one at Createspace would ever try to proofread your manuscript, unless you make special arrangements for that, which you did. You did not need to do this at all. You could have simply submitted your work to the machine, and the machine would have done it's thing and published your novel. No problem. But by inviting them into the editing process, you make them part of it, and for some reason or another, most likely legal concerns, they don't want to be associated directly with what's written. Had you not invited them to participate directly, chances are that your book would have passed through the system without warnings and there would be no problem. My suggestion before, that you could edit it yourself or get someone to help you, I still think is your best course of action. Edit your work and resubmit it with the aim of letting it pass through the system automatically, as I'm sure hundreds of people do every day. It's possible that they might have flagged the title as something they won't accept, but even that, I doubt. Your book will have some sort of invoice number in their database that is currently flagged to not be published. If you delete that title and resubmit it as a new work, it should get a new entry in their database that is clean and ready to be processed automatically. I can't believe that they would 'blacklist' you as an author and never publish another book you've written based on this single case, so I think you should simply scrap this 'attempt' to publish, and resubmit. Change the title if you must, but I doubt that's even necessary. The system wants to run automatically, and it does, unless you force them to take an active part. I hope this helps you see this problem in perspective, ForestCraig. Good luck!