Drive-by idiots.... and some good news.

[kinzel]

sigh,

We're in good company.... Peter F. Hamilton, J.D. Robb, the Dalai Lama ....

UPDATED UPDATED UPDATED

which is to say we've all been targeted by the same prank reviewer on amazon.com.

I asked earlier for help -- saying "Those of you with time on your hand can help us out a bit by going to the amazon.com webpage for Crystal Dragon and clicking on the (report this) option at the bottom of the drive-by nonsense review by "Rob Runce." If you've read the books electronically or are one of the lucky early readers, *do* feel free to put a real review."

Apparently our plea was quickly heard, because the offending review for Crystal Dragon has been removed. Go Amazon! However, the last time we looked there was still a nonsense review by the same person
under Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamiton, J.D. Robb's Naked In Death, and the Dalai Lama's autobiography.
Sigh...

and then the good news is:

Ice cream! Made to order. With a Linux operating system.
In under a minute!
snarfed from the groklaw.net right column this morning...

(ver.2c) after a bit of coffee and some more coffee

Comments

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Well either Amazon is fast or I missed it somehow.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing the Rob Runce review-looks like Amazon may have cleaned up the poo this monkey was flinging around. There's only one legit review showing.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does seem to have worked suprisigly quickly. Now, maybe some Peter Hamilton fans can get together and get the suptidity removed from his page....

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I'll be going to my nearby Borders tomorrow and see if they have the book. If not, I'll order it thru them. Nothing like that to make booksellers notice authors. I hope.

(By the way, I love the crazy-green-eyed-black-cat illustration you put up with your post.)

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

That's a very famous cat -- Lord Black Cat from Trigun. I've got a stuffed copy overseeing my work right now... and he's accompanied me to a couple conventions as the guardian of my camera bag...

see:

http://kuroneko.crosspunisher.org/fan/

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

I want a MooBella of my own. It's so (you should pardon the expression) cool!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

By the way, there's something squirrely with the BN.COM listing for Crystal Dragon. It has the book showing as "Out of Print/Unavailable".

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Out of print likely means they;ve run out of their first order and don't know when the next shipment is in... ought to get to them within a week or so according to ditributor's shopment schedule that I heard...