3 people can keep a secret, but only if 2 of them are dead

[jmc_bks]

After reading yet another brouhaha over at SBTB -- which arose out of a publishing/conference happening -- I can only roll my eyes. Authors and editors and readers (since I don't know who's who) all behaving badly. Don't put in writing anything personal that you don't want to see broadcast across the web. Especially not if you are going to share it with 200 of your closest friends in a professional listserve. Yes, you can put that you don't want something forwarded or shared in your signature line, but that can't physically prevent the "FWD" button from being clicked. Okay, you can get an injunction and maybe money damages if Bad Things happen as a result. But too late, your personal information is out there already.

Beyond that, I was not impressed with Ms. Northman's writing/editing ability in her email at SBTB or the letter she forwarded to the Ja(y)nes.

I've been getting a good bit of spam in my comments lately. Easy enough to delete, but I'm wondering how/why. I didn't think my LJ account was searchable. ::shrugs:: Not a big deal.

The filters at work have been upgraded. I'm still trying to figure it out. DailyKos and Savage Love are both banned. I can see one, but why the other?

On the book front, I read two very very old Emma Darcy Harlequins. One of them, Mistress of Pillatoro, had a very gothic feel. The other, Something Shadows, was Darcy's debut, I think. More coming on them.

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I was not impressed with Ms. Northman's writing/editing ability
Um, yeah, if she wants to be taken seriously as a publisher, she needs to learn to write a proper sentence. If I'd been a writer on that Yahoo group email, I'd have been seriously worried (completely aside from being appalled by the TMI).

-Jennie

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty disappointed that the discussion has all been about the (imagined, IMO) malice about the TMI being included and what rights of privacy posters have in the email age. Even though I'm not a writer, I'm interested in knowing about the expansion/contraction/etc. of ebook publishers.

[dogzzz2002.livejournal.com]

I've already said I didn't like that a private e-mail was posted but I don't think it was done with malice. Just uncool.

As to the rest, I would be horrified to be an 'employee' of a company where the boss decides to rant to us about how unfair everything is and well, my life is a mess! For me, if RWA has to step in then there is definitely smoke and thus, a fire. Since I don't buy e-books it's nothing to me but watching the wheels come off of this one was mindbending.

CindyS