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February 28th, 2008

9:05 AM

Dear Dan Reitz, Sr,

You said in the comment thread of the previous entry:

As owner of Mundania Press and Phaze Books, I can assure you that neither I, nor Phaze Books, has any connection with Literotica, now or in the past. At no time does this group enter into our picture. To be honest, prior to your labeling Phaze as connected to it, or part of it, or derived from it, I have never even heard of this group. It has never been discussed on Phaze forums and lists, and has no influence over us at all.

Firstly, I never said that there is anything negative about the idea that Literotica and Phaze have some kind of connection. But this ignorance is pretty astounding considering that your biggest names connected to Phaze, from Alessia Brio, Will Belegon, Victoria Blisse, Selena Kitt, Rob Graham... do I need to go on? Oh, the COMING TOGETHER ANTHOLOGIES? These are all Literotica-related, honey. And it's not even top secret information, their identities. If you have time, check out this thread at the Literotica forum:

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=569279

It's not safe for work, given the nature of the link, so make sure the wife or the kids don't catch you at it.

Now, can we please stop with the mass delusion that Literotica has nothing to do with Phaze?

I can scream until my voice is hoarse but I never said that such a connection is a bad thing. I'm also not saying that Phaze is an offshoot of Literotica. There is just a high number of Literotica folks there. Why is this so hard to understand? Are you people all so obtuse? GOD.

The only people trying to downplay the connection are the Phaze and Literotica people themselves. I don't know why. If Phaze is embarrassed that I point out the most reasonable and definitely true - and OBVIOUS - fact that they have many Literotica folks among their ranks, then that's their problem and their prejudices, not mine. If the Literotica authors feel embarrassed because I have singled out their past or current association, again, that's their problem. Get a new pseudonym then and stop promoting your books under your Literotica pseudonym on a POPULAR SMUT SITE. If YOU are embarrassed, that's YOU, not ME. So stop projecting your emotions, insecurities, whatever, on me.

I am beginning to question your motives for againing singuling out Phaze to show us in a bad light, while blatantly ignoring the dozens and dozens of other erotic romance publishers that publish similar books. Please do us, your readers, and yourself a favor and cease painting Phaze Books as some supposed spin-off of some other erotic group out there in the world. It does everyone involved an injustice and is simply not true. Thank you.

Which part of my blog entry about how I mention Phaze just because Phaze has a high number of Literotica authors don't you understand? If it's Ellora's Cave or Samhain Publishing that publish a high number of Literotica authors, then I would've mentioned Ellora's Cave or Samhain Publishing instead of Phaze.

God, some of you Phaze people are sometimes so bloody stupid.

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