Some are critical of novels involving rape. “Some even advocate the out and out censorship of older works using words we now deem wholly unacceptable. “There are forces at work in the book world that want to control fiction writing in terms of who ‘has a right’ to write about what,” Rice said. I condemn those who abuse the Amazon reviewing system to ‘take down’ authors who books they have not read – for political or religious or ‘social’ reasons.”Īmazon has since removed many of the one-star reviews of For Such a Time, although more keep appearing, but Rice said on Facebook that she believes “we are facing a new era of censorship, in the name of political correctness”. “Do you think these are honest customer reviews? I don’t. “Check out the Amazon review site for this novel and read the one-star reviews.
“Want to see the new censorship in action? Want to witness an internet lynch mob going after its target?” she wrote. Rice, who has spoken out before about “ the anti-author gangster bully culture”, took issue with the situation on her Facebook page this week.
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