So, I have survived my first ever dance-out! Woohoo 🙂 We were set to start at 11.30 in the market square of a town called March, which I had never visited before. They were having their St.George’s Day fair and wanted some attractions, and the Ely and Littleport Riot women’s morris side had been employed…
Morris Wish me luck! I’m going on my first dance-out with the Ely and Littleport Riot Morris dancing side in an hour. Eek! I’m terrified. I have my waistcoat, I have my hankies, I have bells on my shoes, and sticking plaster on my heels because the shoes still murder my feet if I let…
1. Huge amounts of inadvertent publicity for False Colors, Transgressions, and The Filly, in particular, and the existence of gay romance as a genre in general. Ironically enough, in trying to keep it invisible, they’ve managed to publicise it all over the world. 2. We’ve become aware that censorship on Amazon is an ongoing problem:…
Available now in Sony’s ebook store False Colors http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/alex-beecroft/false-colors/_/R-400000000000000157378 And Transgressions http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/erastes/transgressions/_/R-400000000000000157379 no cheaper, alas, than the real thing, but considerably more electronic 😉
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:…
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…
