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  • 2024/12/04 17:39
• Amazon plays hide and go seek! With my book! And yours!
  UPDATE: Per the Publisher’s Weekly blog: “an Amazon spokesperson said that a glitch had occurred in its sales ranking feature that was in the process of being fixed. The spokesperson added that there was no new adult policy.” Hmm…my opinion–and many, many others–is glitch as in ‘we f*cked up*   If you’re wondering what I’m talking about? Keep reading my post…
  
  Well. I wanted to have a happy wonderful Easter, but a big rain cloud appeared over my day. And not just the normal ones in Seattle. No, this was another one that came in the form Amazon.com. It makes me sad, because Amazon is in my neck of the woods and I’ve always been supportive of them. Too bad they can’t say the same about me.
  
  In case you haven’t heard (and you may have been offline and haven’t!), Amazon made some pretty big changes recently. Here’s the scoop straight off of Mark R. Probst’s blog.  “In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude “adult” material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature.”
  
  So what does that mean exactly? It means you can go to Amazon, type in the search line my upcoming release Take Me from Kensington Aphrodisia…and you won’t find it. It will not come up. Unless you start searching in sub categories or have a direct link, my book and other erotica/erotic romances are almost impossible to find. And when you do find them? You won’t see any sales ranking. That’s a bit…sucky to say the least. I wonder if Amazon paused to consider how this will effect my career. Oh wait, but not just mine. Each Naughty and Spice girl here–including Feisty whose book is already shipping from Barnes and Noble. And you’ll have a hard time finding authors like Maya Banks, Larissa Ione, Jaci Burton…not to mention books on gay/lesbian/etc. I could go on.
  
  But Amazon just wants to protect its shoppers….right? Wrong. This is straight up discrimination and censorship. It’s all over the internet and authors and readers are mad. And why wouldn’t they be? If Amazon thinks my books are so bad, then shouldn’t they be ‘hiding’ some other books?
  
  Like…oh, say, type BDSM under the Amazon search and see how many books and items come up.
  
  Or ‘Bomb Making’ in the Amazon search line.
  
  Or hell just type in the word Porn and see how much comes up.
  
  A bunch of stuff comes up under many other ‘controversial’ topics. But MY romance novel that happens to have hot sex has been hidden away. But of course they’re happy to take any money from any sales I might get if a reader can solve the puzzle of where my books are.
  :wtf:
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  • 2021/07/30 21:09
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  You CAN just change your son’s surname. Just start calling him by yours. Tell his school, doctor, anywhere he uses a surname, just tell them it’s changed. I was known from birth by a different surname than the one on my birth certificate, never caused us any problems. Only if he wants to get a passport will he possibly have to use his father’s surname, though if he can show school reports and doctor’s records in your surname that might not even be a problem. I’m 50 and still using the “adopted” surname, and it causes me no problems; I even have a passport in this name.
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  • 2021/07/29 18:25
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• Pictionary this
  
  Did everyone have a nice holiday? We did. I got a box of bacon from my parents as one of my gifts, and Jason got a huge set of decorative toothpicks (to commemorate this). Fantastic. We also managed to forget our camera at my aunt’s house and Jason’s wedding ring at his parents’ house. (He took it off to wash the dishes, SO HE CLAIMS.)
  
  We played Pictionary at my aunt’s and the boys totally kicked the girls’ butts. It was ridiculous. For example, here is an artist’s rendering of what my father drew:
  
  The guessing went like this: TUBE! TEST TUBE! SCIENCE! EXPERIMENT!
  
  From “tube” to “experiment” in two seconds. Are you kidding me?
  
  And then this, drawn by Jason:
  
  Again, the guesses came with rapid, eerie precision: MOUNTAIN! PEAK! STEEP!
  
  The leaps of logic they made were insane. It’s like they shared a brain.
  
  Take, for instance, this:
  
  This may look like a hamburger to you and I, but to the brain trust menfolk, it only took them three guesses to get “OREO COOKIE.” WhatEVER.
  
  Meanwhile, I drew this:
  
  And had to eventually bail because the closest anyone got was: TV!
  
  It is so obviously a VCR. God.
  
  It also didn’t help that my aunt was trying to get us to guess “democrat” and drew an elephant instead.
  
  I won our little fantasy football pool (based on science!) and am trying to figure out what to do with the money ($68. Note to illegal gambling officials: this money is imaginary!). I offered to put it in our safe for um, safekeeping, but Jason said I should spend it on myself. And then I noticed a local massage place has 50-minute massages for only $39. Well, that was easy.
  
  I’m not going to make any New Year’s resolutions this year, but here’s a list of things I vow to do to make 2021 more fun.
  
  - Use my telescope more often on starry nights.
  - Wear the jewelry that’s buried in my jewelry box.
  - Open a new box of cereal instead of avoiding the last sawdusty remnants of the old cereal.
  - Compliment the pets more on their cuteness.
  - Start a new knitting project before my old, boring one is done.
  - Surprise Jason by taking him somewhere unexpected, unexpectedly.
  - Try some new recipes from the 20 cookbooks I inexplicably own.
  - Live in the moment. If I’m reading, focus on the book. If I’m at work, focus on work. If someone’s talking, focus on what they’re saying. Etc.
  - Go rock climbing. And to an archery range. And to a shooting range.
  - Bake those cookies, even if I only end up eating two (or eight).
  
  How about you? What would you like to do more of in 2021 that’s not really a resolution?
  
  Really cool blogs to read: http://jacklintuart.canalblog.com/, https://thinkster.weebly.com/ and  https://blogg.vk.se/writerring/
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  • 2021/07/29 04:44
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• Just Gay Enough?
  
  I like to write Regency heroes who aren’t quite what you’d expect, in fact, I like to write heroes who appeal to the type of reader who is slightly intrigued by the tantalizing thought of gay men making out, but still likes a good romance along the way. My heroes will give you that. Not quite gay, but willing to experiment with anyone or anything if the opportunity arises, (and somehow it always does in my books and also just Alpha enough to keep you interested and hot and, well, you know…
  
  How did I end up writing them? I don’t know. I just got fed up with the whole Alpha, Beta, Metro thing. I mean, sexuality is much more complicated than that isn’t it? Aren’t there a hell of a lot of grays in between? I love the grays, the men and women who can appreciate that sex is far more interesting if you can be open and up for anything.
  
  What does amuse me is seeing my books in the romance section. Yay, I’m a subversive! ‘Georgette Heyer on crack’ as one of my fellow Black Lace authors called me. I’m expecting my readers to want to know whether a sexually ambiguous pair of Regency gentleman like Lord Valentin Sokorvsky and Peter Howard who star in Simply Sexual and Simply Sinful, can find their happy ever after’s. And I want my readers to be happy for them and care about what happens to them. I want them to care even though these men aren’t remotely conventional and never will be.
  
  I don’t have an agenda. I truly believe love is where you find it and that we all have a right to be happy and sexually satisfied. Is that going to become the norm? Will my kids wonder what all the fuss was about back in the day? I sure hope so :smile:
  
  So tell me, does ‘just gay enough’ turn you on or off and how do you feel about it being in the romance aisle?
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  • 2021/07/27 19:48
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• How do you teach your child about sex?
  I can’t believe I forgot to post this here at the time!
  
  I wrote a post for The F Word titled How do you teach a child about sex? discussing the ways in which I am doing sex education with my young son and asking readers how they’re doing the same. So far the conversation there has been great, and I’d love to hear your input too.
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  • 2021/07/27 01:03
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