Please spread the word about Paypal censoring ebook retailers!

Many thanks to candygramme* for the heads up on this.

If you haven't heard, Paypal is now dictating what kind of ebooks you can read. Don't believe me? Think that's nuts? Check this out:

http://naamah-darling.livejournal.com/562924.html

To say I'm pissed is an understatement. How DARE Paypal have the right to tell ebook publishers what they can and cannot sell?? I'm an ebook author myself and my own books are sold through Smashwords, which Paypal is now censoring! Right now my own writing doesn't fall within the "taboo" categories, but I DO write erotic m/m fiction. What do you want to bet they're going to impose a ban on gay fiction next, because that also offends Paypal? Mark my words, it's coming.

Even though I don't write ebooks with the "banned" themes that doesn't mean that I don't support the rights of the authors AND readers, and if you do, too, please help spread the word about this. Down in the comments at naamah_darling's LJ are the links to several petitions.

Paypal has a stranglehold over electronic payments and they're abusing this power, taking away INCOME from authors like myself. It's WRONG and they should not be allowed to get away with this.

Will we ever see John Winchester again? Let's ask JDM!

Just read this over at EW.com:

Any new scoop for The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, or Supernatural?

Is there a subfolder in your scoop files for “things that are never gonna happen”? If not, get out the label maker. You see, even though John Winchester hasn’t been on Supernatural in, oh, five years, I still get asked if he’s ever slated for return. So let’s let Jeffrey Dean Morgan put this to bed for good. “Yes, I would go back if they asked me. My stance always is I would love to come back. In fact, they have trashed John so f–king much on that show that I would like to come back just to set the record straight the real way,” he says. “I’m not that bad of a dad. I saved my kids. I went to hell to save my kids. How bad can I be, people? But there are a couple of story lines that I’d like to resolve and more importantly those people mean a lot to me. Jensen [Ackles] introduced me to [girlfriend and White Collar star Hilarie Burton] and they’re family, so it’d be fun to go back. But I don’t think it will ever happen.”

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I don't think I've ever heard JDM talk so much about John beyond the "I'd love to come back" he's said many times. Now that I know how he feels about how John's memory has been treated, I really want him to come back. So of course he never will. [sigh]