Professor Tolkien Sets Hitler's Germany Firmly in Its Place

Thanks to Deborah J Ross for discovering Professor Tolkien's pithy response skewering his new German publisher's request for proof of his Aryan descent. This was 1938 speak for "Please tell us you are not a Jew."

Indeed, a letter worthy of a wider audience.

Aspiring Writers Info: Good Rules for Peer Critiquing

Nancy Jane Moore's essay from Brewing Fine Fiction is up over at Broad Universe -- "How to Critique Effectively and Influence Your Fellow Writers." Definitely worth a look, as are all the essays in Brewing Fine Fiction.

Darn

STILL can't find my camera! And I have a separate case for it so it will stand out!

Need to find the St. Anthony candle....

PayPal as Arbiter of What Should Be Censored

A solid article detailing to date what is known about PayPal demanding that Smashwords and other indie distributors stop handling erotica dealing with certain themes. (IE incest, rape and bestiality.)

This, of course, means that if they're really going through with this, distributors will have to yank the Bible, Heinlein (To Sail Beyond the Sunset) paranormal romance, Real fairy tales, and a LOT of literary novels, starting with LOLITA.

What else will we lose?

NOTE: #@#%@ typos...I hate that I can't change the font when I look at things. That's when I see typos.