Below is a post we published on August 14, 2012, about a GR Bully/Amazon Fora Troll named Anna Karenina. Dougie Brimson was the first to spot Anna and catch her in a lie. Since then, we’ve had several people contact us about her and the heartache she has caused them. One victim (not an author) was even threatened by Anna. Anna found this person’s PII and threatened to reveal it publicly, which would have caused a great deal of pain to this particular individual. We talk about this incident in our post: Psychotic Comments.
Given that Anna has caused so much damage to other people, both on GR (as Zahara Cerise) and on Amazon (as Anna Karenina), we’ve had a couple people mention to us that they were thinking of filing a civil suit against her. The only problem with doing that is that you have to serve someone court papers to file a suit and Anna trolls the internet anonymously. No one knew who she was or how to locate her. Until now.
With a little online research and IP tracking, we’ve managed to find her real name and exact location. So, if someone comes to us and shows us that they have a valid case against her, we will give that person the information so that they can serve her court papers, but until then, we will be keeping this information private. Contrary to what the bullies say, we do not publish people’s PII.
As for our post below. We know for a fact that Anna Karenina trolls around under the names Zahara Cerise and Peachbird, but the other “faces” we mention are pure conjecture. We mention them because we were given evidence by our site visitors that she uses these aliases, but the evidence is not conclusive. For example, we know that there are similarities between Anna and Amber of BBB and that the two live in the same state, but each are located in different cities, so they might not be the same person.
Edit 3/28/2013: We have just received email confirmation from several sources that Anna is, in fact, Amelia Lucan on Facebook. And we have this:
If you click on “Amelie Lucan” guess where it takes you. That’s right. Straight to Anna Karenina’s Musings. Imagine that.
Another edit: we were just informed that the link to the page “Great Summer Reads” suddenly stopped working. The page is no longer there. Hmm… *scratches chin* Looks like Amelie/Zahara/Anna is trying to do some damage control… again. No matter, just try this google cache page instead (until she deletes this one, too, that is.) In any case, we hope you enjoy the post below and come away with a better understanding of one of Amazon’s (and GR’s) nastier bullies.
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Our team has had several bullies under investigation for a while now. One of them is Anna Karenina of the Amazon Review Mafia. So you must be wondering: what is the Amazon Review Mafia and what does it have to do with the GR bullies? Keep reading.
The Amazon Review Mafia was brought to our attention by Dougie Brimson who started the discussion, During his investigation, he came across a particularly nasty bully named Anna Karenina, who is part of the GR bully group of author abusers (although he didn’t know that at the time). To illustrate this, we have a clipping of her threat to authors:
What Dougie also started to notice was that Anna had several online identities, or what we call “faces” that she used to intimidate, harass, and bully other people – usually people who disagreed with her. Sound familiar?
When Dougie found out that she was on GR, he confronted her:
Then, she conveniently avoided the question:
Then all the sudden, a whole slew of people (who are supposed to be in different times zones) jumped to Anna’s defense. To derail the topic, Anna began to insult Dougie and call his credibility into question.
So, does all of this sound familiar? Whenever the bullies are confronted by someone who disagrees with them, they immediately try to discredit them. They did it to us and now to Dougie.
So, back to her counter question. Why did Dougie think she is Zahara Cerise on GR? Well, maybe because of this:
Just like Kat, Jane Litte, and Wendy Darling, Anna shows herself to be a very subtle and clever manipulator. Here she talks about Zahara Cerise as if she’s not her:
So she claims she can’t even see Zahara Cerise’ profile and yet we all know she can simply login to GR as Zahara Cerise and see everything that Zahara Cerise sees.
“I can’t even see her profile.” Uh huh. Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!
But hold onto your hats, STGRB readers, because this gets better. Just moments after Dougie confronted her about being Zahara Cerise, Anna went back to her original comment to HJ Leonard that she wrote in February and deleted it! Look at the dates. It’s the exact same screenshot, only without Anna’s comment:
Nice try, Anna. But you were right about one thing. You did make the front page of STGRB. Congratulations! 
Now, remember what we said before about the bullies trying to cover their tracks once their dirty laundry is discovered? Deleting incriminating evidence like she did is one of their specialties.
Not only that, the bullies lie for each other. Here is a shot of Mayhem (who knows that she is Zahara Cerise) coming to her defense:
So, let’s recap from here. Dougie notices that Anna has multiple accounts and identities. He calls her out. Anna denies it and calls his credibility into question. Then, she says that everyone who believes him is crazy, including us:
So, who do you believe?
For us, it’s a no-brainer. Dougie is telling the truth.
In addition to being Zahara Cerise on GR and Anna Karenina on Amazon, we also know that Anna is peachbird76 on Amazon as well:
Gotcha!
Okay, here’s the thing about liars. Watch them long enough and they will make a mistake. They’ve told so many lies they have to remember that eventually they slip up and embarrass themselves. Our advice: best to just be honest.
Currently our team is reporting Anna to Amazon for using multiple accounts to bully and harass people. If any of our readers would like to join the effort, you are welcome.
So, what are Anna’s other faces? We have strong evidence that she is also Amber of Buried By Books.
First we have this:
We also know, by reading both blogs: Buried By Books and Anna Karenina’s Musings, that both these identities read “the classics” and are into romance and baking. Of course, this evidence is really circumstantial. It doesn’t prove that they are the same person, but it’s enough to make you scratch your chin and go: “Hmm …”
So, now we have Zahara Cerise, Amber of BBB, and peachbird76. Where are we getting these? Each week, on Anna’s blog AKM, she features a color.
Here is the one for Cerise:
Here is the one for Amber:
And this one for Peach:
See the pattern?
The last two faces of Anna are Amelie Lucan of Facebook and Cat McKindle of GR.
displays a giraffe:
If you read Anna’s blog, she is obsessed with giraffes. She has a collection of little giraffe figurines that she posts pics of on her blog. Also, many of Amelie’s FB friends are known posters on the Amazon fora. But the most incriminating evidence of all is that when someone sent an FB friend request to Amelie, Anna and her friends began talking about it on the Amazon fora within minutes. This is per Dougie and we believe him.
As for , well:
Look familiar?
Also, if you look at the mods for the GR group, Badly Behaving Authors, you will recognize a few of them:
If you look further, you will see that Cat McKindle has five friends, two of those friends are HJ Leonard and Mayhem.
Now, let’s count the faces. Anna Karenina, one. Zahara Cerise, two. Peachbird76, three. Amber of BBB, four. Amelia Lucan, five. Cat McKindle, six. Wow! And these are just ones we know of. There could be many more.
“I am only me.” Uh. Yeah. Right.
