Goodreads are deleting books along with reviews of short stories that appear on magazine websites or in anthologies.^{[screenshot 1] [screenshot 2]}

For some reason this doesn’t affect stories published on authors’ websites or Tor.com shorts, but at least two of my reviews have been deleted, for the 2014 Hugo Award winningSelkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar published byStrange Horizons and Hugo nominated If you were a dinosaur, my love by Rachel Swirsky published by Apex Magazine, although it’s also available as an audio download. I actually received these stories in multiple formats as part of my LonCon3 Hugo Voter Pack.

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I've asked Goodreads staff for clarification of image rules based on my Goodreads Deletes Power Users, Leafmarks Benefits post.

Please feel free to weigh in.

I’m coming late to this party and I’m shocked I hadn’t seen anything about this anywhere, not even in in the Goodreads Feedback group, until now, in GR status updates. [1][2][3][4]

Two power users, JennyJen (Twitter, Booklikes) and Marco Manganiello (Facebook), who had hundreds of followers and reviews, initially had their reviews deleted based on the images in their reviews, which were flagged by other users for supposedly contravening GR’s arbitrary policy against nudity and anything remotely risqué or controversial, like semi-naked men kissing. The horror! The horror!

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ISBN: 9781304575197

Now available from Amazon [ US | UK ], The Book Depository [ US | UK ] and other retailers.

My Review

The unlikely has happened.

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