I found out today (via Twitter, obviously), that Amazon has decided it’s okay to be homophobic. Many books with LGBT content have had their Amazon sales rankings removed over the last couple days. According to this post, Mark Probst (who wrote The Filly) emailed Amazon and received the following in response: In consideration of our…Read More
Next week (Feb. 22-28), Freedom to Read is celebrating their 25th anniversary. Freedom to Read is part of the Book and Periodical Council, and discusses censorship issues in Canada. The following is taken from their position statement: “As writers, editors, publishers, book manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and librarians, we abhor arbitrary interpretations of the law and…Read More
I’m usually not a fan of adopting online causes. Except for this one.
C.S. Lewis once wrote, “as soon as you deal with [sex] explicitly, you have to choose between the language of the nursery, the gutter and the anatomy class.”
NaNoWriMo is a kamikaze approach to novel writing. The point isn’t to write well; the point is to write.