Brit-picking needed

Actually, it's not so much Brit-picking as a British copy-edit. Any chance I could get a volunteer to read over a lengthy document (~35 pages, single-spaced; aka 20K words) with an eye toward correcting it to British spelling and usage? Genuine copy-editing experience preferred, but in the absence of that, I'll be more than happy to work with an enthusiastic hobbyist.

I'll find something to reward you with. Probably an early copy of In Ashes Lie, if I can wheedle one out of Orbit UK. Or I'll just mail one of my US copies, when I get them.

Drop me an e-mail (mention any relevant credentials) if you're interested. Marie dot brennan at gmail dot com. Turnaround time on this would need to be about a week.

What is *wrong* with me?

These days I tend not to set an alarm for myself, which means I get to wake up gradually and naturally, rather than being catapulted out of sleep.

During this process, my brain randomly wanders along various topics, which often include bits of writing. And sometimes it offers up interesting ideas.

But there's "interesting," and then there's "ooh! i know! vivisection!"

. . . it's even worse because that's a good idea for its context. Kind of perfect, actually. But brain, please to be waiting on the vivisection-related suggestions until I'm more awake? Please?

Amazon update

One of the negative features of kerfuffles is that the outrage tends to spread a lot farther than the eventual explanation does. Not that this explanation doesn't have its own problems, but it's better than the "lobotomy + homophobia = FAIL" equation people at first assumed.

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the thing was a consequence of what strikes me as an extraordinarily dumb programming decision. Somebody made an erroneous category-edit in France, and it propagated from Amazon.fr through to all the rest of them. This has more discussion of Amazon's internal operations, and how errors like this end up happening.

What's the line about never attributing to malevolence what can be explained by mere stupidity? I suspect Amazon's site architecture could use some work.