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April 18, 2015

I AM SPARTICUS! Stand with the Badgers, Write an Email

Support the Honey Badgers and join the #GamerGate email campaign against the sponsors of Calgary Expo. Send one email, just one to start


I read with dismay on Vox Day’s website.


The SJWs came for the Honey Badger Brigade yesterday:


Early this morning, Fan Expo Canada banned Honey Badger Brigade (HBB) from the Calgary Comics and Entertainment Expo (CalEx). Security staff approached the HBB booth, ordered us to leave, and refused to state the reason why unless Alison Tieman agreed to speak to them away from the other members of the group, without recording. They informed Alison that they had received complaints on social media, including 25 allegations of harassment. No evidence was presented, no request was made for information from HBB, and no specific incident was cited until further questions were asked of security.


Upon further questioning, security mentioned the Women in Comics panel discussion from the previous day, where Alison was given permission to speak. Alison spoke briefly in relation to a topic brought up by the panelists. Accusers, however, claimed that Alison derailed the conversation. Alison and myself were in attendance, and you can listen to Alison’s statement in the panel here on YouTube. You can hear Alison, myself and indeed the entire panel in the full discussion record.


As you will hear, there was no harassment. Expo staff and mob rule, in their crusade for ending harassment against women, harassed the Honey Badgers despite having no evidence of any policy violation.


This is what we are up against. This is why I will never back down, why I will never ever apologize for thinking, speaking, and writing freely. This is why I am the Leader of #GamerGate and why you should be too.


The real crime of the Honey Badger Brigade, for which they were successfully attacked, was not “reportedly disrupting panels”, but rather “associating with GamerGate”.

[…]

Several tweets from this morning suggested one of the exhibitors was proudly demonstrating banners and shirts for GamerGate. It was quickly revealed this was The Honey Badger Brigade…. Calgary Expo has been actively responding to comments and criticisms about its decision on Twitter, expressing it had no desire to allow a GamerGate-themed booth onto the show floor.


This is a cultural war, people. And if you’re not fighting it, you’re losing it.

[…]


Support the Honey Badgers and join the #GamerGate email campaign against the sponsors of Calgary Expo. Send one email, just one to start. I have. That’s all it takes… because we are legion.


NOTE: do not post any personal information to 8Chan. The form at the top of the page is not an email form, and anything you enter is publicly visible to a board haunted by trolls, harassment artists, and people who will expose your personal information.
Here is the contact info:

(Listed by name of company; email address; twitter account)

Cocobrooks; info@cocobrooks.com; @cocobrookspizza

Gaycalgary; magazine@gaycalgary.com; @gaycalgary

Space; feedback@space.ca; @SpaceChannel

Air Electronics; admin@airelectronics.ca; ——–

x929 radio; gbrasil@ x929.ca; @X929

Squareup; press@squareup.com; ——–

Vistek; customerservice@vistek.ca; @Vistek

Dean Reeves; graphiclanguage@shaw.ca; ——–

Rue Morgue; jody@rue-morgue.com; @RueMorgueThese don’t have public email. Use the contact form on the website</p>

Summit Trucks; http://www.summittrucks.com/contact/ ; @Summit_Trucks

Air Miles; https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/ContactUs ; @AIRMILES

Bullseue Creative; http://bullseyecreative.net/ ; @bullseyeseattle

ATB Financial; https://www.atb.com/contact-us/Pages/... ——-

Redd skull; http://www.reddskull.com/index.php?pa... ; @redd_skull




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April 17, 2015

A Grocery List

A fan remarks:


“I would rather read Wright’s grocery list than any of the “literary” stuff in the genre now.”


How funny you should mention that! I happen to have my grocery list right here.


Items to pick up:



A pound of Apples, despite that this mortal fruit is the one whose taste brought all our woe in paradise;
A sack of flour, child of an unworthy grain, those firstfruits offered by the first murderer and his first victim, his brother, which horrid fratricide to this day we repeat;
Four heads of Lettuce, which the antediluvians ate, meat being forbidden to them.
A pounds of Beef, eaten by humans for the first time under the gracious light of a rainbow, wonder unadored ere then.
A rack of Lamb, eaten when the angel of death passed over the chosen seed of Abraham
Remember to get some lunchmeat for the kids.
A quart of Milk and a jar of Honey — to remind us of a great promise.
And, finally, remember to get a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine, to remind us of the one and only time the blood of the divine was shed on this dark and morbid globe we call the earth.
Fried fish, as was eaten by the shores of the sea on Easter Sunday, as Peter was asked three times whom he loved.
Also, a package of turkey, justly renowned as the humblest meat from the stupidest bird eaten with prayers of thanksgiving by the Pilgrim fathers who bless and planted this nation, whose harvest was the freest and greatest people Earth has ever known: under socialism, you could not nip down to the store and buy these things, or any things, since socialism spends human blood and purchases nothing but misery and want.


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Published on April 17, 2015 23:48

Perverting the Story to Kiddie Propaganda

http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/2014/12/legend-of-korra-creators-confirm-korrasami-is-canon


Dear Mr DiMartino and Mr Konietzko,


I admire your creative effort tremendously. I watched your shows, bought your merchandize, and supported and lauded you. I made your work a part of my imagination and a part of my life, and introduced your show to my children.


And this is how you repay loyalty and affection?


A children’s show, of all places, is where you decided to place an ad for a sexual aberration; you pervert your story telling skills to the cause of propaganda and political correctness.


You sold your integrity out to the liberal establishment. In a craven fashion you deflect criticism by slandering and condemning any who object to your treason.


You were not content to leave the matter ambiguous, no, but had publicly to announce that you hate your audience, our way of life, our virtues, values, and religion.


From all the fans everywhere worldwide let me say what we are all feeling:


Mr DiMartino and Mr Konietzko: You are disgusting, limp, soulless sacks of filth. You have earned the contempt and hatred of all decent human beings forever, and we will do all we can to smash the filthy phallic idol of sodomy you bow and serve and worship. Contempt, because you struck from behind, cravenly; and hatred, because you serve a cloud of morally-retarded mental smog called Political Correctness, which is another word for hating everything good and bright and decent and sane in life.


I have no hatred in my heart for any man’s politics, policies, or faith, any more than I have hatred for termites; but once they start undermining my house where I live, it is time to exterminate them.


Sincerely,


A lifelong fan.



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Published on April 17, 2015 23:39

Good Thing Popular Science is Fair and Objective!

Another obscure Internet journal declares their loyalties and hoists the pink flag of Libel for Social Justice.


http://www.popsci.com/culture-wars-raging-within-science-fiction-fandom


One would think they would be imaginative enough to invent new libels.


The hack, a Mr Tim Dawson, writes:


Recent nominee John C. Wright is a long-time professional writer, but he is perhaps better known for his views on LGBT activists and allies, who he has called “disgusting, limp, soulless sacks of filth” and other, less-printable slurs (Wright has recently deleted the “sacks of filth” post from his blog, but the Internet never forgets).


Here is the full text of the letter Mr Dawson fails to quote:


Dear Mr DiMartino and Mr Konietzko,


I admire your creative effort tremendously. I watched your shows, bought your merchandize, and supported and lauded you. I made your work a part of my imagination and a part of my life, and introduced your show to my children.


And this is how you repay loyalty and affection?


A children’s show, of all places, is where you decided to place an ad for a sexual aberration; you pervert your story telling skills to the cause of propaganda and political correctness.


You sold your integrity out to the liberal establishment. In a craven fashion you deflect criticism by slandering and condemning any who object to your treason.


You were not content to leave the matter ambiguous, no, but had publicly to announce that you hate your audience, our way of life, our virtues, values, and religion.


From all the fans everywhere worldwide let me say what we are all feeling:


Mr DiMartino and Mr Konietzko: You are disgusting, limp, soulless sacks of filth. You have earned the contempt and hatred of all decent human beings forever, and we will do all we can to smash the filthy phallic idol of sodomy you bow and serve and worship. Contempt, because you struck from behind, cravenly; and hatred, because you serve a cloud of morally-retarded mental smog called Political Correctness, which is another word for hating everything good and bright and decent and sane in life.


I have no hatred in my heart for any man’s politics, policies, or faith, any more than I have hatred for termites; but once they start undermining my house where I live, it is time to exterminate them.


Got that? I insulted two men who richly deserved it, two men turned on by fantasies of lesbian oriental teenagers getting it on, but neither man himself a homosexual.


I insulted them for luring me into trusting them and repaying my trust with a craven, cowardly betrayal, and for the ghastly dishonesty with which they thereafter comported themselves in public.


I insulted them for insulting me.


This, in the minds of the honesty-challenged writer Mr Dawson, constitutes me calling all lesbians, gays, bisexuals, whateversexuals, and their heterosexual allies and activists by the same names.


But none of these people ever betrayed me, targeted my children, or lied about me. Why would I upbraid them?


The other slurs, as you see, were also strictly printable, containing no swear words nor blasphemies: Unless you think calling someone a termite or an idolater is too shocking for delicate Victorian ears.


While, technically, one can call two hetero men lusting after teen lesbian characters they introduce without warning into a children’s cartoon and sneaking antinomian, and antichristian messages into wholesome family entertainment  “LGBT activists and allies” one cannot call such a technicality honest.


Mr Dawson selected his words carefully enough to create the impression exactly opposite the truth, like the man in the old joke who says his dog does not bite, never mentioning the the dog by his heel is not his.


As for the idea that an author of my standing, working for ten years with the largest and most prestigious publishing house in science fiction, with nomination for a Nebula under my belt, and now a record number of Hugo nominations — that the most famous thing I ever wrote was six words taken out of context in an unpublished letter dated last December to Mr DiMartino and Mr Konietzko is beyond false and beyond ludicrous.


I suppose someone, somewhere, is gullible enough to fall for so transparent a lie, but of what value could deceiving such a helpless naif turn out to be?


Or maybe he means it. Maybe he thinks more people read his column that have ever read my books? If so, that is a delusional thought. Mr Dawson severely overestimates his power of propaganda, if he thinks his lies are more famous than my stories.


Nor was the post taking Mr Mr DiMartino and Mr Konietzko to task deleted. I merely redirected the link to put in its place my true feeling about homosexuals, so that voles looking for juicy bits of gossip on which to feed their anger and rage would be taken unawares.




I believe, profess, and unambiguously support the view that homosexuals must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity.




I believe, profess, and unambiguously support the view that every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.




I believe, profess, and unambiguously support the view that These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.




However, those who think it right and just, a holy crusade, and a way of sticking to The Man, to offer a drunk a drink, and hand him the car keys to drive, and urge him to his destruction, knowing he is afflicted — such a vile, pitiless, foolish and ghastly hypocrites as this are guilty of something far worse than pride, and will answer a far sterner judge than I for the crime. The pity and respect I owe and show homosexuals struggling with their perversion I do not owe to those who undermine that struggle, or belittle it.


I do not hate homosexuals Mr Dawson. I hate you.


I hate you because I love the truth, and hate the injustice of seeing homosexuals and other innocent people hurt by your lies. It is not a difficult stance to understand, misrepresent it how you will.


Note that there is no link proffered by Mr Dawson, no attribution, no facts. Nothing about me at all, in fact. He is describing the horrible strawman Mr Wright, the one eyed one horned flying purple people eater.


Ah, but I am a Little Satan. The Great Satan is Vox Day:


Big winner Vox Day is an outspoken white supremacist and campaigner against women’s education and suffrage, who is on the record as supporting the Taliban’s attempt to assassinate Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousifazi, finding it “scientifically justifiable.”


The fact that the Puppies have courted assistance from the anti-feminist GamerGate movement is another strike against their claims of political neutrality. The extent of the collaboration between the two groups is difficult to quantify….


On it goes in like vein. And they will simply get away with such libels, as have all the others.


This is your press, ladies and gentlemen. They act this way because the indifferent permit it, while the wicked reward it.


Mr Dawson, with shocking insouciance, insolence, and tone deafness to the irony, concludes with this paragraph:


For most of its history, science fiction fandom was sheltered from the worst aspects of the increasingly polarized political climate. Trufans, safe in their bubble, were wholly unprepared for this kind of culture war. Can traditional science fiction fandom repel the invaders and return to the benign, anarchic status quo, or will they have to adopt the tactics of their enemy in order to survive, losing a part of themselves in the process?


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Published on April 17, 2015 23:36

The Perversion of a Legend

I note a particular oddity in the ongoing debate about the legitimacy of the Hugo Award slate. For all the ink that has so for been spilled over it — including more than one libelous article hurredly retracted — no one is actually talking about it.


No one is talking about the merit of any of the works, mine or others, being judged.


Consider the irony of that for a moment. We masterminds of evil living in our villain lair in the cone of an extinct volcano in Antarctica are being accused of introducing politics and bloc voting into the Hugo Awards. Our main complaint is the the Hugo Awards in recent years have been a matter of politics hence not about the merit of the work. Our complaint is that meritorious works are being shut out; that the merit of the work is being ignored. And the response of our critics is …. to launch personal attacks, to attempt clumsy character assassination, besmirch and besmear our character, and never to talk about the merit of the works.


Point made; case closed.


I have so far found one and only one exception, and the comment is worthy of sustained and detailed mockery.


Here is the quote from the one and only one detractor who mentioned discontent with my work rather than badmouthing the author.


And even he only mentioned the writing in passing after several paragraphs of condemning me for badthink and thoughtcrime.


http://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/comments/31pm37/entertainment_weekly_publishes_story_on_racist/:


This is regrettable, but that’s what is to be expected when you recruit Vox Day for your side and champion John C. Wright, a guy who thinks there should be laws against sex outside of marriage.


(quoting me, emphasis his) I will gladly clarify: I am not a libertarian any more. I think the state has a right and a duty and a sacred obligation to enforce marriage laws, and put men in jail for adultery, for fornication, as well as to punish the johns and patrons of prostitutes with severe penalties: http://johncwright.livejournal.com/337756.html?nojs=1&thread=11474268


He also thinks that women must obey their husbands:


(quoting me) For her part, she must vow to love and honor and obey. And if you do not understand about that obey part, you do not understand women. She wants a leader, an alpha male, a chief, a Christ, and you must be willing to die for her as Christ was willing to die for you, or she will not feel secure in your love. If she does not swear to obey, you are not a couple, not a dyad, not a unit, but are still two sovereigns dealing with each other at arm’s length, not intimate, and she cannot trust you fully, cannot love you fully, not with a divine and self-sacrificing love. http://www.everyjoe.com/2014/07/16/politics/secret-to-the-most-mind-blowing-sex-ever/


And the less said about his views on LGBT people, the better.

But, you say, maybe he is a bigot, but they championed him because he wrote great fiction last year.

To which I say – try reading it without laughing at how bad it is. Believe me, it’s not easy.


Actually, no man not bereft of this wits says of me, maybe he is a bigot.


A sane man merely wishing to publish a libel or slander would invent a more credible falsehood and level a less absurd accusation, such as, for example, by saying I am an isosceles triangle seeking to overthrow the social order of the Polygons Flatland, and that I must be bound with the magical gossamer ribbon gleipnir before I eat the sun and moon, leaving the world in darkness forever.


Bigotry is defined as a man who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.


The words utterly intolerant do not mean respectfully and with endless, easygoing, and jovial clemency, patience, charity and magnanimity welcoming any disagreement with those of differing creed, belief and opinion, while never losing sight of their innate human dignity ergo treating them with scrupulous fairness, dispassionate justice, and princely courtesy. It means the opposite.


Except when fellows like this use the word. In his world, tolerance is bigotry, bigotry is tolerance, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.


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April 16, 2015

One More

This one from the Libertarian site:


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/04/allan-davis/leftists-attack-libertarian-sci-fi/


To no one’s surprise, the people who idolize reason and liberty are on the side of the science fiction guys weary, bored and annoyed with the yammering and sneering of the self-anointed thought-police, trying so desperately to police the thoughts of people smarter than they.


One of the most charming compliments I have received of late came from one I assume to be a libertarian or near-libertarian:


To paraphrase the sainted Ayn…


“Laugh at John C. Wright and hold John Scalzi as a great science fiction writer. You’ve destroyed science fiction. Build Rachel Swirsky and you’ve destroyed fantasy. Hail the Toad of Tor and you’ve destroyed book editing. Glorify John C. Hines and you’ve destroyed masculinity. Don’t set out to raze all shrines – you’ll frighten men, Enshrine mediocrity – and the shrines are razed.


One of the funnier quips I have heard recently also came from someone I suspect is a nonconformist:




First they came for Vox Day, but I did not say anything, because Vox Day was an asshole, and I was not.


Then, I didn’t say anything because he was so busy bitch-slapping them and I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t stop. So, that turned out well.




Allow me to state before the ears of the world that I salute libertarians and see them as allies.


To be sure, once the Pope and his army of Ape Clones, Ghosts, Vampire Samurai and Jesuit Dacoits takes over the world using the secret, Martian war-machinery buried under the Vatican since the Triassic period (when the Martian invaders exterminated the dinosaurs but were wiped out by smallpox) we Catholics will burn all libertarians at the stake as heretics, and then eat their burnt flesh in a horrific cannibal orgy. And we never read the Bible.


But until D-Day and H-Hour, the libertarians are kind enough to let all civilized men the heck alone and leave us in peace, and I would be honored to share a foxhole with any of them during these culture wars.


No libertarian ever donned the condescending mantle of thought policeman in dealing with me, and no leftwing has ever failed to do so.


The Lefties want to control our minds, destroy our minds, destroy our lives, and die, and the Libertarians want to live and let live, to leave us alone and to be left alone. Life and death. The choice is that stark. I choose life.


So, to all libertarians wherever you are, let me say this: I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death the right of the Inquisition to torture you into a bogus forced confession for saying it, before turning you over to the secular arm for a slow and barbaric public burning.


But then again, the Inquisition will let you call women ‘bossy’ and permit you to use the word ‘Black’ rather than ‘People of Color’ and allow you to applaud rather than using ‘jazz hands’ so our sadistic and vicious repression is better than their sadistic and vicious repression. At least we have written rules. And you can keep your money and own businesses under our pitiless iron scepter. Think of us as Lawful Evil rather than Chaotic Evil.


NOTE TO THE HUMOR IMPAIRED: Just kidding! The foregoing paragraphs are a jest!


(The Martians were wiped out by the clap, not smallpox, but I thought it inappropriate as a subject matter to put on a family friendly blog.)


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Published on April 16, 2015 17:01

SJWs = Marketing Genius!

The previous round of false reviews and graffiti led to increased sales for my books previously targeted by these exemplars of courteous inclusiveness and civility whose sole motive is their nonpartisan love of the science fiction genre. I trust my readers will respond again in the same way.


I see the following notice from my publisher. The words below are his:


… two more people have responded to Glenn Hauman’s call for posting fake reviews on Amazon. Jeromy Stone has posted a fake review of Mr. Wright’s , of all things:


One Star

By jeromy stone on April 15, 2015

Format: Hardcover

trash


You know the drill. Report for Abuse and Inappropriate Content. The more strongly we respond to these attacks, the more likely it is that Amazon will eventually step in and do something serious about it.


Ugggggggh!


By phangirl on April 15, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
Wow. Call me underwhelmed. If you like purple prose, this is the book for you. Bad writing plus bad editing makes for a bad book. Don’t waste your money on this dog.

As phangirl is a fan of Jim C. Hines, I ask Mr. Hines to make a statement to his readers concerning his opinion of posting fake one-star reviews of other authors’ works on Amazon. I have no doubt that Mr. Hines opposes the practice, out of sheer common sense if nothing else, and I hope that he will see fit to tell phangirl and his other fans to cease and desist such antics.



I’m contacting Amazon today to ask them to investigate Glenn Hauman’s call for fake reviews. It is readily apparent that his malicious attempt to harm Castalia House’s business is having real and material effects on our book reviews and I note there is legal precedent in the UK addressing compensation for such activities. My personal opinion is that Amazon should not permit authors who post fake reviews or encourage others to do so to sell their books on Amazon. It will be interesting to learn Amazon’s opinion of the matter, considering that they recently sued some companies that provide fake reviews.


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April 15, 2015

No, Virginia, There is no Stare Decisis

My story ‘Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus’ was disqualified by Mr John Lorentz and Miss Ruth Sachter in the name of the Sasquan Hugo Administrators, on the grounds that a first draft of the story was put out on my blog for my readers as a Christmas gift eight days before the beginning of 2014.


I did politely question the decision on the grounds that this case did not differ materially from a parallel case, where Mr Scalzi’s  OLD MAN’S WAR was posted to his blog in 2006 but was granted an award in 2013.


The reply I received was this:





John,In retrospect, “Old Man’s War” probably should not have been allowed on the ballot in 2006.</p>

But things weren’t as clear-cut when he first posted the novel on his web site in 2002.  I was able to attend more Worldcons in the early 2000’s than I have in recent years, and I remember there being a lot of discussion during the business meetings during those years as people tried to define what was meant by “published” (we were coming out of the years when only only way to distribute stories or books was by printing them on paper).


They finally settled on that it meaning whenever the text was presented to the public, whether it was on a web site, in an e-book or printed on paper.



Now, with many stories and articles being nominated that came from online magazines or sites like Baen.com and Tor.com, there’s no question that web publishing is a major means of publishing.  So posting a work on a public web site is treated as equivalent to printing it in a magazine.



I sincerely believe that a situation such as Old Man’s War won’t happen again–as long as the Hugo Administrators are aware of the initial publication.  (Since the Hugo Administrators change from year to year, I can’t guarantee that to be the case.  But if a future administrator reverted back to how Old Man’s War was treated, I’d certainly disagree with that action and I think most other people would, also.)




[…]
I hope that helps clarify the situation.  The Hugo administrators each year are only human, and we all make the occasional mistakes.  But we try to do our best in interpreting the rules clearly and impartially.
John Lorentz
Sasquan Hugo Administrator

This response, in my mind, raised more questions than it allayed, and so I wrote a second time, but have so far received no further answer.


I suppose the answer came when I stumbled across Mr Mike Glyers’ 770 blog, where the announcement of the decision was made.


N.B.: Mr Glyer has been nominated for 50 Hugo awards in his career.


Now, I did not think it proper to speak to Mr Scalzi himself on the matter, since he has no power to influence the Hugo judges, nor was he privy to the note sent me, and if there was any further written record of the decision or the reasoning involved in my case, it was not shown me.


But it seems someone did ask him, apparently in a fashion to which he takes  exception. In reply, Mr Scalzi holds forth his legal opinion as to why the two cases differ.


N.B.: Mr Scalzi has been nominated for 15 Hugo Awards in his career.


http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/04/15/the-latest-hugo-conspiracy-nonsense-involving-me/


I invite your comments. Is his legal reasoning sound?


The words below are his


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Published on April 15, 2015 21:59

Silent Answers to Loud Slanders

In response to the observation by Vox Day that the books and stories on the Sad Puppies slate of recommendations routinely overmatch the Hugo nominations offered by the conformist establishment of the past decade, one Glenn Hauman of Comic Mix is asking the fairminded and tolerance-loving fans of science fiction to go onto the Amazon sites of various books and works of any nominees for the Hugo awards recommended by the Sad Puppies, and leave or laud negative reviews. https://archive.today/UCk4j


Mind you, he is not asking for the Evil League of Evil Authors to be scribbled on by fake reviews, but merely those persons who, in our humble opinions, we asked our readers to consider nominating for a Hugo, based on the quality of the work rather than any political considerations.


Dear readers, I recommend bringing his call to violate the Amazon reviews system to Amazon’s attention. Also, one may leave comments on a fake review so as to warn innocent shoppers who might read it and be deceived.


And Mr. Hauman of course must apologize and repudiate this petty act of incompetent crowd-sourced graffito.

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Published on April 15, 2015 06:38

April 14, 2015

You Know Who You Are

To whom it may concern:


If you ever become a writer, you will get on your knees and pray, dear heavens please send me some reader who will read my work and get it. After going through draft after draft, after sweating ink and weeping in frustration, and finding just the right word, the right phrase, the right way to carry the scene, the right quote from a musty old book, the right story from an ancient legend — please send me someone who gets what the story is about.


And sometimes, and no one can say when nor why, heaven will answer you abundantly, and send dozens of readers who eyes are opened and whose hearts are unclouded.


Thank you.


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