First the good news:

We just noticed a lovely review of One-Letter Words: A Dictionary, courtesy of Virginia Durksen over at Goodreads: "What's not to love? I confess to being a reader of dictionaries. Not a regular reader, but a frequent browser, when the sun is shining and a word has caught my eye. Conley pulls together a list—this inspires more lists in me. I want to add things to this dictionary. The publisher should create a volume with spaces to add things, for word collectors. And, goodreads should add an option for re-reading, never stop reading, use it all the time. That would be this book."

But it's not all good news.  An unrefined person over at Goodreads ripped our dictionary of one-letter words 26 new anal cavities.  (Googling "does a book have an anus?" delivers zero results, so ours may be a world first!)  Forget the fact that our dictionary has been remaindered for years and was, in fact, dead in the marketplace before it ever debuted (see our interview with Janet Boyer for the lurid backstory).  Why condemn when you can create?  This gauche person stated that he's pretty sure he could do a better job.  So why doesn't he?  The more dictionaries of one-letter words, the better!  But actual creators and innovators are few and far between.  We don't have time to write paragraphs of derision toward other people's work -- we're too busy marching to rain on someone else's parade.