From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V2 #152 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Friday, September 12 2003 Volume 02 : Number 152 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:50:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "R.W. Rasband" Subject: [AML] re: Honesty in Reviewing Here's a small footnote to the subject of reviewing Abanes' "One Nation Under Gods." I wrote an admittedly harsh, one-star review of this loathsome book for Amazon.com, entitled "There's a MORMON Under Your Bed and He's Going To GET YOU!" It got a lot of "helpful" votes. But one day it mysteriously disappeared from the review list. When I e-mailed Amazon to find out why, it turned out that several customers (read "anti-Mormons") had complained that my review was "offensive" so they removed it. I had to laugh. If you regularly scan Amazon's reviews you will find all kinds of vituperation, lies, and slander. But my little sarcastic review was too much for the tender sensibilities of the Anti-'s. ===== R.W. Rasband Heber City, UT rrasband@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:16:42 EDT From: Terashan@aol.com Subject: [AML] Introduction: Tequitia Andrews Hello, My name is Tequitia and I live in VA. I've been lurking the past few days and see that you guys have some really intense conversations. I re-discovered my interest in writing four years ago, when as a stay-at-home mom I was looking for a way to use my talents to help support my husband's income. When I was around nine years old I got the idea that I wanted to be a writer, so I sat down to write my first book. It was terrible. My next attempt at creative writing was when I was a freshman in high school with poetry. I had an awful break up with my boyfriend and poetry was the most therapeutic way to get through it. I continued to write about life and love through the eyes of a teenager up to my first year in college. It was more of a personal outlet than a career pursuit. I also sing, so there came a time where my interest centered more on singing than writing, besides I always got B's and C's in writing, so I didn't think I was any good at it. Four years ago, the writing bug hit me after many prayers asking the Lord to reveal a way to use my talents to help my family. So that's what I've been doing. So far, I've been published in local newspapers and magazines. I've had work published for websites. I like to write about parenting topics. I've also written one short story, but I haven't submitted it anywhere. I've started at least three novels but I freak out and abandon them. I've struggled with writing LDS fiction or mainstream. Mainly because I'm a convert to the church and my experiences in life haven't been sugary sweet. I'm afraid what I may write. I recently saw God's Army (we rarely get any LDS films out here) and realized that there is an entire aspect of being LDS that I have no clue about. I don't know how it feels to live in a LDS community, to go on a mission, attending a single's ward, attending a ward where more than 50% are active. Also, I'm African-American and that's an entirely different perspective in itself. Therefore, I feel unqualified in writing LDS fiction. Although, I would very much like to. But I'm happy to be a member of this group and I hope to learn alot from everyone here. Tequitia Andrews - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V2 #152 ******************************