Okay, you’re all going to love this one! Just recently best-selling indie author Jamie McGuire publishes a saying:
Hmm, very strange that Amazon would do this and of course the bullies had to jump in on it and devour it whole, skewering Jamie in the process. The rumor started was that Jamie had included song lyrics illegally in the self-pubbed version of Beautiful Disaster and that was why Amazon was encouraging refunds.
And who started this rumor? None other than the llama of drama herself, our dear, sweet, lovely Jane Litte with the help of her twitter pals (i.e. katiebabs):
Then Jane goes and writes a post on Dear Author on it telling everyone it’s Jamie’s fault:
Litte is making two really big assumptions here. One: that Jamie didn’t have permission to publish the lyrics. And two: that Amazon offered a refund for the book because of a copyright violation. Big mistake, Litte.
Even The Passive Voice picked up the news and unfortunately, there were some idiot commenters leaving shit like this:
Finally, Dawn cleared up the whole thing on PG’s blog:
Here are the shots we got of comments left on :
So you see, Amazon made a mistake and the bullies jumped in and blamed the author. Why? Well, that’s an easy one. Because Jamie is an awesome writer and because she also happens to be a best-seller who stuck up for herself and beat the bullies at their own game. Add that to the fact that her book will more than likely become a movie (screenplay in process as we speak):
And the bullies just can’t stand it. Any opportunity they can get to smear her reputation, they’ll take. In fact, that really applies to any author they want to bully. And let’s be honest, does it really surprise anyone?
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An addendum. Found some more spot on comments by Jesse and Dawn on PG’s blog:
