Copied from a post on AfterEllen this afternoon: ~*~*~*~ Amazon’s “Glitch” Myth Debunked by Francine Saint Marie CONCLUSION: Censorship was clearly built into Amazon-Kindle’s digital-text-platform years ago when it was programmed to constantly crawl itself for new content and trip the automatic censors whenever it found certain keywords that Amazon’s leadership had designated as forbidden.:…
It’s nice to see people’s sales ranks returning even in far flung regions of Amazon such as Amazon.co.uk. It meant that I could turn to worrying about pleasanter things like how well False Colors was doing. Today has even had a lot of squee in it, after the large doses of OMG!WTF of the weekend. …
And possibly not coincidentally to Amazon fail, False Colors and Transgressions had their official release yesterday. Huzzah! From my own POV, I’m torn between thinking I ought not to talk about them while this much larger issue is going on, and thinking that I ought to talk about them more because this larger issue is…
What a weekend! I couldn’t keep up with it, especially as I spent Easter Monday in a field, out of range of internet connection. However, now that I’m back, this is my understanding of the situation at present: #amazonfail twitter thread, started by storm_grant spreads to be a world wide phenomenon Numerous blogs, newspapers and…
Sales Ranks disappearing on Amazon? What is going on? Copied from storm_grant ‘s LJ On the issue of Amazon suddenly stripping sales ranks from m/m, f/f and erotica, actual facts have been obtained. Amazon is protecting is general readership from the evol gay and the pr0n. Read here: http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html http://vashtan.livejournal.com/490173.html asknosecrets is collecting links here:…
but the timing of this does not fill me with glee. False Colors and Transgressions now available in Kindle versions complete with sales ranks
I always wonder which to start with, but it would be churlish not to start with the good news in this case. Late last night I got a gorgeous, intelligent, insightful and above all positive A grade review for False Colors from Dr. Sarah F of Dear Author: http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/09/review-false-colors-by-alex-beecroft/ “Rarely, oh so rarely, I’ll read…
Some time ago I voted in a poll by the American Family Association. I can’t remember why now, but it was some sort of protest vote. Anyway, ever since then, they’ve had me on their newsletter, and they keep sending me ‘One News Now’ and encouraging me to vote on (IMO) non-issues like whether Darwinism…
Technorati Tags: m/m romance,women writing m/m romance First of all, I ought to make it clear that this is titled ‘answers for the men’ not because these answers are somehow less true than the answers for the women. That isn’t the case. There is just a difference in emphasis, depending on who is asking the…
Which is: Like an Animal: Erotic Tales of Werewolves, an anthology published by Circlet Press containing the following stories: LUNACY by Elizabeth Reeve – f/f THE MOON IS MY MISTRESS by Vicka Corey f/f CAROLINA JASMINE by David Hubbard – m/m CARNIVAL OF THE GROTESQUE by A.D.R. Forte -m/f DARK DIVINE LIGHT by Becca Ovadia…
