I could repeat the chorus of outrage about Amazon.com's new policy of categorizing almost all GLBT literature by GLBT authors as "adult" material (and thereby removing those titles' sales ranking data and excluding them from some book searches, with the effect of marginalizing this category of literature even further). Instead, I'd like to direct you toward the Publisher's Weekly article about it (which makes me think, as a certain friend would say, "Hmm, I smell bullshit"). You might also like to read my source for that link, Famous Author Rob Byrnes, whose books have all been labeled adult (which, if you've read them, is really absurd), and another writer who's been similarly affected.

Oh, and guess what else is on that list? So this directly affects me as well (although strangely, when doing a search on the keywords "fool for love," the paperback edition doesn't show up but the Kindle version does. So even their glitch, apparently, has a glitch.)

I hope that Amazon realizes how monumentally they've screwed up here. (I think they might, though I suspect at the moment they're just trying to cover their corporate asses.) Even more troubling (and tiresome) is the task of moving my wish list from Amazon to another bookseller's Web site in advance of my particularly milestone-ish birthday coming up, as I expect a landslide of text-based gifts to be coming my way.

And we all deserve books, don't we? What we don't deserve is censorship. (I originally mistyped that as "censorshop," which I think has a certain ring to it, don't you?)