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Happy Easter! I'm taking a quick break from insane Easter dinner prep. It feels good to sit. But there is much more to be done. Why do I always do this? (Because my MIL is getting older, I refuse to set foot in my SIL's house, my one BIL lives in a small rowhouse down in Philly, and my other BIL lives further away, although his wife is a godsend who is making the potatoes, a veggie, and a nibble.)

I got a very nice Easter present! Practical Politics, by my mystery author over at bsgficexchange. It's a great Tom Zarek gen piece set around Colonial Day, where he's basically being a chess master. Well, that's an analogy, but frankly, it's an apt one. This has been a fairly low-feedback fest, so if you have any interest in Zarek, go on over, read, and tell her (I assume it's a her) what an awesome job she did!

It feels so good to sit. Only 2.5 hours until my in-laws show up, though. Somehow, I don't think I'm going to be sitting long. But I'm so stealing one of the kids' peanut butter eggs before I get back to work. Mmmmm.

Happy Easter, if you celebrate, and even if you don't, hope you're having a nice spring day!

AmazonFailGate

So, yeah, AmazonFail.

I'm totally not going to say it's really all hearts and flowers and all that, but the scientist in me wants hard statistics. Annoying. There are definitely books that they're stripping of their rankings that shouldn't be stripped (because, y'know, self-help books and non-fiction and young adult books are exactly what we should be worried about THE CHILDREN looking at ::rolls eyes:: (and also? I'LL decide what my children can watch, thanks, which is why my kids are allowed to watch Dr. Horrible and not Barney)), but I want more info about other books having their rankings stripped. I want to verify. And I want to believe that it's someone being a dork and when someone up higher in Amazon realizes what's going on, their ass will be fired. I sent them my annoyed email, but I was probably less vehement than others.

The annoying thing is that I have an order in at Amazon, and I just got the word I put in the wrong credit card number (I have an expired one saved- oops). I have three days to give them the correct info.

Right now, I'm waiting. Sounds like the righteous fury has descended. If we see a change in what they're doing in the next day or two, I'll put my order through. If I don't, I won't.

Of course, I really want that book, so I may just go over to Trappe Book Store and see if they have it in anyway. Independent sellers and all that. Plus, business aspects. If I ever finish my book and get it sold, it sounds like Amazon would be stripping it of its ranking because there are gay characters. ::Gasp::

Can you still get Face of the Enemy off Amazon? :)