truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (writing: felix-degrading sex!)
Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2009-04-12 12:09 pm

I see a bad moon rising

This is appalling. And infuriating. And Not Okay.

(My books have not been stripped of their sales rankings--I just went and looked. But clearly they should be.)

ETA: Smart Bitches, Trashy Books FTW: Amazon Rank.

ETA2: Nicola Griffith, who is seriously one of the most awesome sf writers I've ever had the chance to fangirl in person, is among the authors affected. If there was anything needed to make me angrier (which there wasn't), this would have been it.

[identity profile] txanne.livejournal.com 2009-04-12 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
And yet Judy Blume's Forever and Wifey, two of the most explicit non-fanfic stories I have ever read in my life--with less literary merit than a lot of the fanfic out there--are at 25,000 and 100,000 respectively.