Not doing me any favors either. *sigh*
When I publish historical fiction, I feel an obligation to check every aspect of those stories to make certain they are accurate. I have two historians on staff to implement that policy. I'm very proud of the fact that we do this at Aurora and Clio.
A simple Google search would have let the anonymous author of the Huffington Post know that the titles cited as AMP titles were never published by us. They were published by an entirely different company I've never heard of. Hell, the company's name begins with a "C" for pete's sake.
And now, a simple Google search of my name will bring up the word *porn* and link to my blog. Authors who wrote nothing even close to pornography will run the risk of losing their jobs--like Dominique just said--or, in some authors' cases, prevent them from being published by houses with those stupid morality clauses.
And all because some idiot from a small town Colorado paper decided to sensationalize the plight of a community of international authors with a trigger word in the title, thereby diminishing the very real hardships and trauma caused by their publisher and endangering their livelihoods, reputations and careers in the process.
I guess that's what I get for speaking out about AMP. I couldn't have been punished more thoroughly if they'd posted my social security number and bank account. Yay.