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The sun has really been glorious today, and we’d better make the most of it, apparently, as the cold weather is coming back next week. Perhaps we’ll get a white Christmas. Hope so!

I downloaded the Director’s Cut version of Broken Sword 1 and it’s a JOY. There’s a ton of extra content, the game has been mildly revamped with updated dialogue and new graphics without losing any of the look and wit of the original. I hope they do a director cut of the second game too. OR DO MORE GAMES. THANK YOU PLEASE, REVOLUTION. It also runs in a nice little DOS type pop out window so you don’t have to keep tabbing back to Windows to check your email.

Why do some editors question an author what a word means before looking it up themselves? I wish they wouldn’t. It’s very annoying. Just because you don’t know a word, don’t ask the author what it means. If you think it’s too obscure for the reader, then, yes, point that out, although I’ll generally disagree, because I don’t think readers needs to be dumbed down to, but if YOU don’t know what it means, look it up! *smitey* +

I haven’t seen this on my flist anywhere yet, but I’d like to broadcast this regarding Amos Lassen who is one of the top reviewers on Amazon. Due to jealous and vicious attacks from other people on Amazon, Amazon have removed all of his reviews and have removed his posting access. He’s now set up his own review site, which I’m sure will soon become “the” review site for GLBT books, as he’s an amazing reader.

Here’s his statement under the cut. I’d be very grateful if we could get this broadcast widely, because ONCE AGAIN Amazon fail. MASSIVELY.

To those of you who want to know what happened at amazon: a group of jealous reviewers who felt I reviewed too much and had risen to fast decided to accuse me of plagiarism and mocked up reviews that I did not write and used them for evidence. Amazon believed them and decided to delete all of my reviews and take away posting privileges. This means that I will not be posting on amazon again but on my own review blog at http://www.facebook.com/l/7b971KtzkcWvkZp8H-qVZHYah_w;amoslassen.wordpress.com/ as well as my home board http://www.facebook.com/l/7b9711pgTsZ2bHpKCM20yTNoBGQ;eurekapride.com. http://www.facebook.com/l/7b971Vtca7pUBbJft9vdZi-kfJQ;tla.com, facebook, Your review on amazon was not lost—they are all on http://www.facebook.com/l/7b9711pgTsZ2bHpKCM20yTNoBGQ;eurekapride.com which is in the process of moving to a new server and will be down for a few more days, None of the reviews are lost.

LiveJournal Tags: amos lassen,amazon FAIL,broken sword

Eventually they wil find their way to my review blog but there are 5000+ reviews to move. This is nowhere near over. I am working with Lambda Legal and we are slapping these people with a slander/libel suit and charging them with a hate crime. We are also suing Amazon for non-protection of a top reviewer since I notified them the day this started and not one of my emails was answered. These people called the universities here in Arkansas, wrote to Lambda Literary, contacted publishing houses and authors and showed them that I am a plagiarizer. They have pulled part of my world from under me and broken my spirit—I am a good man devoted to seeing GLBT culture move forward but not everyone feels it should. Look at DADT and here it happened in our own house. I am really sorry for those of you who wanted Amazon reviews but we now know how Amazon feels about us.

+this was not prompted by anything that’s happened to me recently, in case anyone says “thou should not slag off the industry.”

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