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A week or so ago, an author friend gave me the heads-up regarding a brief-but-nasty review of Boneshaker (as well as this author's own works) composed by someone who was irate over Amazon.com's georestrictions. In short, because this man could not download our books to a Kindle in Australia, he thought he'd take out his frustration on us.

This isn't altogether shocking, since we-the-authors are arguably the most public face of the publishing process; and, in the reviewer's defense, when he w...