Mrs Giggles: Harlequin Horizons’s unintentional comedy “Commedia dell’arte was concerned mostly with disgraceful love intrigues, clever tricks to get money or outwit some simpleton.” My own search found this… A rigid convention of the commedia dell’arte is the periodic intrusion of Harlequin, who interrupts the play with low buffoonery. I have to agree with SFWA… [...]

EREC: I am Cynic, hear me bitch. I am with Emily on this one. Harlequin will distance themselves from Digital Only Publishing with Carina Press but slap their “good” name all over a Vanity Imprint. Sorry, this was a totally bad business move. Ripping off writers usually is and Harlequin sold their “good” name to [...]

Seems publisher Mobile Reference pulled it’s illegal versions of 1984 and Animal Farm from the Amazon Kindle library thus removing them from all Amazon Kindles even if you bought and downloaded it and were reading it. The users did get a refund but also the shock in finding out that Amazon can remotely erase any [...]

Thank you for contacting Amazon.com. This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection. It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themed titles – in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind [...]

Dear Publishers Who Happen To Publish M/M Romance , Amazon.com has decided that Josh Lanyon and the rest of the GLBT Romance you publish is Erotic/Adult Fiction without regard to the actual content involved and is refusing to promote it’s sale by including it in the sales rankings on their site. This effects your money! [...]

Karen has a latest discussion of financial problems from the once Top ePub. Add yet another check mark to the list of bad signs. This is exactly why I took Ellora’s Cave off the Top ePub list and so far they are proving my decision as being prudent. I would be looking for another ePub [...]