Posted in House, Miscellaneous on Apr 22nd, 2008
Just after we bought our new house last October, much of the lake turned into a mudflat. One might think this had something to do with the severe drought here in Georgia, but it was actually caused by two different repair projects going on at the same time, both of which involved drastically lowering the [...]
Posted in Publishing Industry on Apr 17th, 2008
I’m usually not much of a petition-signer, but in this case, I made an exception. Last week, Dear Author broke a story about how a gang of romance writers has been gaming the Amazon system to inflate their books’ ratings and to fraudulently have reviews lower than five stars removed by reporting them as abusive [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Apr 15th, 2008
Zoinks! Our local Internet provider dropped off the face of the planet last week, so we were without access for several days. They claimed to be having hardware issues, but given the very grim information in their parent company’s recent SEC filings, it’s much more likely to have been the result of unpaid bills to [...]
Posted in Books on Apr 8th, 2008
I’ve mistrusted Amazon book reviews for years. I mean, you read a book that’s sucky by pretty much any objective standard, and then when you look at its Amazon reviews, they’re all 5-star fangirl squees? Uhh, yeah. Like that happened legitimately.
Well, apparently there are gangs of writers and their fans who live for voting negative [...]
Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle
