Words by Sooz

Looking through Twitter today made me want to put a collection together of photos of those supporting Trayvon Martin and looking for justice from his tragic murder. Going through all the photos literally brought tears to my eyes. Race, age, gender - none of that mattered. Celebrity and just the kid around the corner.  They all put their hoodies up to support Martin's family and, like many people, just want to see justice.

Many authors have voiced concerns about the lack of female authors being reviewed in the New York Timer' Sunday book reviews. Twitter has become a popular venue for the criticisms. Perhaps things have gotten better since the out cry began more than two years ago, it seems the New York Times still has long ways to go to write about women in the same way that they do men. But two years ago, it was bad. Real bad - as this tweet from 2010 illustrates. Author Jennifer Weiner put together this piece on her blog where she broke down the numbers by gender – as she notes compiled by her assistant – on Jan. 17.

Several days ago, PayPal came out with a revised version of its decision to ban certain categories of ebooks from the online marketplace. Instead of focusing on categories as a whole, the online payment processing company intends to focus on individual books that "contain child pornography, or e-books with text and obscene images of a rape, bestiality or incest." This should be considered a victory for the indie authors as PayPal seemingly intended to cause a disruption in the entire ebook world with the ramifications of its original decision affecting hundreds of authors and dozens of ebooks sites. This allows more legal fiction to flow in the marketplace. People should not be censored.