Lubrican: Blog

With the posting of my recent offering (Uncle's Beach House) the foreword has generated a lot of interest in getting an uncensored copy of the book. Usually, my forward reads, simply: This book was edited to comply with publisher standards. All persons and characters in this book are at least 18 years of age or older"
Then, at the end of the book, I put an afterword that reads something like this:
"If you enjoyed the book and would like to have a copy of the original, uncensored version, send a screen shot of your zbookstore library page to merely.bob@gmail.com and I'll send you the original version at no additional expense."

What this does is supply proof of purchase, which is all I want. If you buy the censored version, the least I can do is send you the uncensored version, too. I'm not a publisher, so the squeaky wheel can't hassle me. What you and I do when we exchange emails is private business. And, to ensure that nobody can accuse me of sending kiddy porn based on the cover, I make sure the cover of the uncensored one displays no sexual scenes.

That works for any of my books that you bought anywhere. Just give me some kind of proof of purchase and we're good to go. And, if the screen shot you send me has other censored books on it, I'll send you those, too.

So, that's how it works. I hope this clears up any confusion.

Bob

Here is another of the short strokers I wrote while I didn't have time to write anything serious. It's just a little five chapter incest story in which everybody ends up getting it on with everybody else. I'll post a chapter a day so it will all be up by Friday, Oct 24. It's called Uncle's Beach House.

Hello, boys and girls. This is your good, old, Uncle Bob, come to visit again.

I have been on a secret mission that took me far away, but that mission is over, now, and I can come back and (hopefully) titillate you again. I'm catching my breath, so the first offerings will be short. The one I started uploading today is five chapters and I'll post a chapter a day. Or, for you impatient ones, you can hop over to zbookstore and find the whole thing.

It's good to be back. I didn't want to be gone this long, but when secret missions call, one must answer, lest the world sink into disrepair.

Thanks for being patient, boys and girls. I hope the wait will have been worth it.

Bob

Apparently things are moving so fast or so violently that Laz has been unable to send out information to the SOL family.

I do not know how much of what I now know is classified and needs to be on the down low, so to speak, but I've been told that a new hosting service has allowed SOL to continue as it was.

I also found a very nice site that sells books called zbookstore.com

Those of you who aren't happy with bookapy.com any longer might enjoy that site.

Happy reading,
Bob

It is possible by now that you have noticed changes at SOL. I'm assuming that these changes resulted from some person or group threatening to sue SOL if the changes were not made. If it actually went to court, SOL would win, because neither SOL nor the authors there have done anything illegal in the United States. Winning a frivolous lawsuit still means you have to hire a lawyer, and after you win the same person or group will happily sue you again. They will do that until you are bankrupt. Hence the changes.

Now, I have to be careful, here, because D2D, the company that bought smashwords.com, recently banned me for life from publishing anything at smashwords. They de-listed all my books and informed me I can never publish there again, under any pen name at all. Their stated reason for this was because, in my author profile, I talked about freedom of speech and censorship and said that if a customer sent me a copy of the receipt for the book, I'd send them an uncensored version of the book for free. This apparently announced to the world that books containing underage sex exist in the world, and that I was using their platform to advertise that. This violated their standards so violently they took the described action.

The loss of that income stings, and I don't want any other publishers to ban me, too, so that's why I'm being careful about what I'm saying.

In the past I tried to post two free things for every book I put up for sale. With the new requirements I knew Laz would have to delete most of what I've posted over the years. So I downloaded everything to preserve it on my computer. In the future I'll continue to write as I always have, but I'll edit the material so it can be posted at SOL. I am already in the process of editing everything I have for sale at bookapy.com and in the future everything I publish there will conform to the new standards. I'll keep the original for myself, which is fine, because I write mostly for myself. I know some others enjoy it, too, which is why I posted it.

When I post something on SOL I'll probably publish it for sale on bookapy.com, too. If you buy a book that seems a little off, in places, and would like to discuss that with me, you can sent me mail through SOL or write to me directly at merely.bob at gmail dot com. Because I'm so busy, I'd ask you to send me proof of purchase because I only have time to chat with actual customers. I'm not going to send you anything. We'll just chat, maybe about the process of editing books or whatever.

To the moral police, I'll say this. I do not believe that persons under the age of 18 engage in sexual behavior. I believe that as much as you do. I do not condone underage sex, even if it's legal. I understand that the age of consent, which is below 18 in many states, is an aberration and an abomination. Even if I accidentally write something that has an age of consent under 18 in it, I will certainly never send that to any human being. Everything I post at SOL or publish at bookapy.com will comply strictly with the new standards. There will be no underage sex in anything I post or publish. I'm not offering to send anybody anything that contains perfectly legal underage sex. Anything I write is my opinion only and neither SOL nor bookapy.com is responsible for anything I produce.

To the rest of you, I wish you happy reading. Thank you for doing that. I hope I get to chat with some of you. We've been friends a long time and I hope that friendship can continue.