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There appears to be a viral illness passing through the fantasy sector. Signs of the dreaded Foot in Mouth Disease are evident at two popular online blog stops. Oh Noes! There is Ms. Guran who decided to take the new Harlequin Paranormal blog to task for a) posting under a first name and no last name and b) for being banal about vampires.
This is the same Guran, editor of Juno publishing (whom we have reviewed here both favorably and unfavorably), who said this and this. It appears Guran is suffering chronic FiMD.
Another FiMD case is found at author Holly Lisle’s blog. Ms. Lisle is exploring the viability of a magazine and in her initial post declared that she wasn’t interested in publishing “porn” in a statement about epublishing. This was republished on Karen Scott’s blog and Ms. Lisle defended herself on the basis of being misunderstood (this inability to communicate her message clearly despite being a professional writer must be frustrating).
To further clarify her words, she wrote this today:
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