Last on the Train Wreck
Cassie Sharp says it better than anyone else can: https://cassiesharpbooks.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/open-letter-to-faleena-hopkins/ It's sad, really. For everyone.
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The Train Wreck becomes agonizingly slow.
You have to wonder. I mean, what happens when things become indefensible? Flight or Fight. That's the two reactions. Or as Rory Miller writes: lizard brain, monkey brain, human brain. Gut. Emotion. Logic. Which should come into play? When I returned to this page to update labels, etc., I discovered that the writer in search of a SNAFU had removed her rant from YouTube. The old link led to nothingness. Here's a new link, with the latest, from May 25.
More on the Slow Train Wreck
My goodness! The train just keeps wrecking. Romance Writers of America is now involved. Amazon, as RWA's request, is no longer removing books and reviews that were purported to be in violation of trademark (which is impossible, since a single word cannot be trademarked). Here's more on the train wreck in progress. Victoria Strauss on SFWA's Writers Beware blog is "Weighing In": https://accrispin.blogspot.com/ From Mark Whipple's Legal Inspiration blog: http://legalinspiration.com/?p=503 And Sasha White gives us 18 minutes that are well worth watching:
Slow Train Wrecks
If you haven't heard the c*ck-up about trademarking a word (which can't be done, unless the word is used in a non-usual sense, like Apple Computers), then here's a brief summary, courtesy of Courtney Milan's twitter stream. click to read