Okay! This is going to crack everyone up. We were just informed of another troll group called – wait for it – whose mission statement is to:
“Create a positive image for indie writers by not behaving like asshats while also helping non-asshat authors succeed.”
Why is this hysterically funny? Check out the moderators:
If you go to the page and scroll down, you will also see several other well-known bullies from our BBG page.
Now, we’re hoping everyone can see the irony here. If not, we’ll show what we mean. Let’s take AAIA’s moderator, , for example. Angela is a well-known GR bully who led attacks on Sharon Desruisseaux, when Sharon politely tried to reach out to her, and on Eve Thomas, who tried to apologize to Angela and Coaxial for promoting her book. Not only did Angela and her bully friends attack these authors, they contacted one of the author’s charities deliberately to do damage to this author’s reputation. In addition, they threatened to write nasty reviews on her books (which many of them did.)
And this indie author, Angela, actually considers herself to be a non-asshat indie author!
It boggles the mind.
Now, if that’s not enough, let’s take indie author . We came across Elly on the Amazon fora when she met Looney for the first time:
And then Looney started to pimp her book to Elly (which is a violation of Amazon TOS, btw):
For a bit of background, we covered this in our post Sanctimonious Hypocrisy that exposes Looney for being not only an asshat but a hyprocritical one at that. In the post, we show how she breaks her own “code of honour” by exchanging glowing reviews with her author friends.
Now, given this information, this won’t surprise you at all. Just three days after the online exchange between Looney and Elly, appeared on Lindira’s book page, written by… *drumroll* none other than Elly herself:
But wait! That’s not all. Now, let us draw your attention to of a book by an author who not only has been continually attacked by Looney (even though this author has said she doesn’t even know her), but who is also one of the several authors whom the bullies have blamed for our blog (screencap is only a partial shot of the review):
If you look at , this one is by far the longest and most detailed and yet, , Elly doesn’t even get her facts straight.
So… Elly. Got an axe to grind? Holding a grudge against someone just because your buddy hates her? *shakes head* Tsk, tsk. And you really consider yourself a non-asshat indie author? Really?
So, there you go, folks! Two major asshats who consider themselves the pious preachers and sanctimonious example-setters of purity and honor of all indie authors in existence. And remember, they include Coaxial, Ginmar, and Mahala (who threatened commenters with talk of a loaded gun in our post, Psychotic Comments) in their number.
*cough cough*
*choke choke*
We know many of our readers are indies, so we ask you, do you wish to be represented by these people? What say you?
