Telepathy is a lost art. Doubly so if you're doing it over long distances and trying to reach multitude of people who have never met you without the bonus of vocal inflection or visual cues.

A small portion of the population has mastered this art -- this privileged portion are also known as published authors. The rest of us stumble along the best we can and hope that we can communicate what we mean -- and we usually end up spending most of our time banging our head against the wall.

A few days ago, I completely botched my telepathy roll when I wrote a review for a book, and things came out sounding very terrible when perceived by people who weren't me. Where I had intended to give a "this is good, light reading, but I didn't care for the characters" review, it came out sounding like I completely hated it, and worse yet it sounded like I had intended to slander the author himself. Word of my crappy review made its way back to the author, and let's just say he wasn't too thrilled (understandably).

So I'd like to make an announcement that I've rewritten the review to reflect the things that I was trying to say, but conveyed very horribly. It's only one step in the way of apology, but I hope the additional comments I've added will help.

My apologies to everyone, and not just the author, for any problems the original review caused.