Life, Interrupted

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.

It’s Banned Books Week and Book View Cafe is getting in on the action. Join our crack blogging team all week as we celebrate banned books and how they’ve impacted our lives. Banned book bloggers include Sherwood Smith, Brenda Clough, Nancy Jane Moore, Amy Sterling, Judith Tarr, Sarah Zettel, Jerry Weinberg, Deborah J. Ross, and more. Grab your can of lighter fluid and join us at the Book View Cafe blog: http://blog.bookviewcafe.com.

You regulars know that I wrote a bite about censorship in the BVC blog back here:

My original summation:

http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2010/08/21/the-season-of-censorship/

And found the coda here:

According to the Guardian, the Humble, TX Teen Book Festival 2011 has been canceled.

Guardian Article: http://tinyurl.com/29ffawr

If anyone has found a later interview of some of the folks involved, post the link, will you? I am up to my eyeballs in copy edits for the book coming out Thursday (I hope!) so no time for browsing.

...and I decided that someone needed to pull together various posts about the Humble, TX Teen Lit Fest group uninviting Ellen Hopkins to their 2011 festival. So I pulled together a bunch of the major posts to date on the subject, and posted about it over at Book View Cafe.

Join me there!

http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2010/08/21/the-season-of-censorship/

"Handmaid's Tale" is back in the curriculum after a superintendent yanked it from the roster (it had been taught ten years.)

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Novel_Restored.html