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Why Jane Litte Was Banned From RWA
We’ve received several emails just recently asking us why Jane Litte (the founder of Dear Author) was banned from Romance Writers of America and honestly, this was news to us when we heard about it a year ago. Fortunately, a couple of our site visitors were there in the days of #RRTheater and #Romfail and remember exactly what happened. So, we want to share with you anon-a-bus’s comment answering this question:
She was banned for several reasons, one of which was something she did on Twitter a few years ago. For some reason she took a personal dislike to one new small publisher and she started a vicious twitter feed on Friday nights with a name that went something like #RRTheater. She lead a group of people/minions bashing the publisher and authors. Then she expanded and continued bashing and laughing at all erotic romance she didn’t like with another group called #Romfail. Once again, she went on Twitter with her bully minions and they ripped erotic romance books and authors to shreds in public in one of the most vicious ways most people have ever seen. You can do a search for #Romfail and there is information out there. There isn’t as much as there should be because the authors she ripped apart were very new and they didn’t know how to fight back or what to do. They were devastated by what she did, and RWA must have taken notice of it. They gave a specific reason why they were not renewing her membership, but the real reason was Romfail and the way she was creating bad feelings within the romance community.
She is truly one of the most vicious bloggers on this planet, and one of the most unprofessional. She is the bottom of publishing in this day and age. But what’s even more interesting is that she has the nerve to question an author’s identity and she’s not even using her real name as a blogger. No one’s named Jane Litte. She’s an ambulance chaser from Iowa who also has an online presence with her real name. That information is out there, too, with quick searches. I don’t think it’s considered doc-dropping when it’s mentioned in a NYT article.
Anon-a-bus is absolutely right when she says that Jane has no business accusing another person of being a “fake” when her internet persona, Jane Litte, is a fake itself. And she has no business acting as if she is some sort of authority in the publishing world (sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong) when she is considered by many to be one of the worst bottom-feeders.
So, watch out for this one, everyone! There’s a reason she’s on our Biggest Offenders list. As one of our blog readers said, she’s a nasty piece of work.
