Category Archives: Idiocy

PayPal, eBay, Visa, and MasterCard Equate All Kinky Erotica with Pr0n

Posted on 2012·02·21 by svrowle | Permalink 6

Trouble in the Erotic Midlists The latest bad news in the fight against moral prudery has reared its ugly head in the erotica writing community. Here’s a short [..]

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Unofficial Blackout

Posted on 2012·01·17 by svrowle | Permalink Comments Off

I was going to black out this blog for tomorrow in solidarity against SOPA/PIPA (the so-called “anti-piracy” bills currently working their way through the U.S. Houses of Congress. [..]

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When Even Google’s Lawyers Are Worried, Your Legislation Probably Sucks

Posted on 2011·11·18 by svrowle | Permalink 2

I was reading Dean Wesley Smith’s blog post about Kris Rusch’s discussion of how legacy publishers are (mostly) going to survive the digital revolution. Someone in the comments [..]

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The Soapbox: On Political Correctness

Posted on 2011·11·07 by svrowle | Permalink 3

[This post is a few days overdue. I've been furiously writing to finish and publish my books for the holiday schedule. I get that this is old news [..]

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Bigotry Is the Main Reason I Chose to Self-Publish

Posted on 2011·09·14 by svrowle | Permalink Comments Off

Here’s yet another example of an experience I never want to have on the path to publication of any story of mine: Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” [..]

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