Dear Ms. Myer, I first heard of your debut fantasy novel, Last Song Before Night, when it was featured on the Tor blog. Among the things that caught my attention were its attractive cover and evocative title. Since you are an author I hadn’t read before, I requested the novel ... more >
Way back in September, I wrote a post on free speech and included a question about what everyone’s ideal online book community looked like. There were a number of interesting responses to the question, including, Liz: On the one hand, I believe strongly that we all have a responsibility to ... more >
Recent comments from Amazon seem to directly dispute the idea of a hack or external tagging issue, but rather an internal cataloguing error. I don’t think that Amazon’s explanation is any explanation at all. It doesn’t address what it’s “adult content” policy is and what it will do in the ... more >
UPDATE 1: Here is a spreadsheet of books denoting their catagory metadata along with whether the book has an amazon rank. If you are a gmail user, you can (I think) access the spreadsheet for sorting. If you aren’t a gmail user, here is a web page of the spreadsheet. ... more >