I've been offline for a few days, so you may already be aware of this story:

From Jessica Verday's blog:

I've received a lot of questions and comments about why I'm no longer a part of the WICKED PRETTY THINGS anthology (US: Running Press, UK: Constable & Robinson) and I've debated the best way to explain why I pulled out of this anthology. The simple reason? I was told that the story I'd wrote, which features Wesley (a boy) and Cameron (a boy), who were both in love with each other, would have to be published as a male/female story because a male/male story would not be acceptable to the publishers.

I'll try to keep the "not-so-simple" reason from becoming a rant and just sum it up by saying that that was SO Not Okay with me. I immediately withdrew my story and my support for the anthology.

It's a post that's worth reading, and at the end, Verday has re-posted the explanation that the anthology editor left in the comments section. The comment is... well, it's something. And by something, I mean WHOA NELLIE OFFENSIVE, as she thoughtlessly -- and I do think it was thoughtlessness -- equated profanity and explicit sex with homosexuality. And she used the phrase "alternative sexuality", which... yecch.

I'm not even a strict adherant to political correctness, and ALL of that rubs me the wrong way.

(via Angela)