Earlier today we took light-hearted umbrage at a quote from Steven Hall’s guest blog at Powell’s. The author of The Raw Shark Texts responds to our gripes in today’s post:

— I was talking about how I approach my own blog writing (or, more accurately, how my own blogs always seem to turn out!), I was speaking about myself, not passing judgement on anyone else! …
So sorry for any confusion, and a special sorry to the nice folks at babygotbooks.com who despite taking those comments to heart a little bit, still gave my book a very decent plug. Thanks guys, I have a kitten blood special edition here on my desk waiting for you if you want it. Give me a shout :)

Rest assured, I’ve given him a shout. I can’t wait to get my hands on the special kitten blood edition. Read what Wordsmiths’ Russ has to say about the book in this excellent review. If that doesn’t send you scrambling to the book store, I don’t know what will (or you can try the slandering the author route - whatever). And we thank the author for not calling us out for botching his name in the original post (which we have corrected).