Very little chance the claim was the motivator. It was only a couple hours and while opened, I still hadn't completed all background submissions. Highly doubt they were contacted. Much more likely they had a change of heart, one of the JHA trilogy was newly aware (Brittany?), coincidental pressure from elsewhere, I became too much trouble, one of the two responses was a mistake or hit on right/wrong day, or release is now much further out than is seemed a couple weeks ago, etc. Who knows? As mysteriously resolved as the problems created.