You all remember Linda Hilton, right? The crazy bully author who parades around Amazon as Tansy Gold, leaving five-star reviews on her own books? At the same time, she attacks other authors and their books after she sends the Dear Author gremlins on witch hunts after “misbehaving” authors whom she accuses of sock-puppetry and of leaving glowing reviews on their books (old posts on this to come).
Yes, yes, we know. This is typical bully fashion — to always accuse others of what they themselves are guilty. Their hypocrisy never fails to show itself. But this time, she makes the ultimate faux pas just as Stephanie Sinclair did and the Amazon trolls — she harassed a reviewer. And she did it in a . Below are the shots we got of the conversation. We are currently reporting Linda to GR for attacking a reviewer. We encourage others to do the same.
At this point, nothing further needs to be said, so we’ll let the screenshots do the talking:
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I think these people actually think that’s the way to build a writing career — create a bunch of crappy fiction, then generate multiple sock puppets to “persuade” other readers they are good … as if they couldn’t tell they were awful to begin with. I had a troll do this to try to “overtake” me in a community (their vicious, vindictive competitiveness is one of their telling features). I disappointed her profoundly by just pulling the work off the Web she was competing with. I just got out of Dodge.
Do these people actually think this creates a writing career? Or are they just responding out of some compulsively hateful destructiveness?
They are nasty pricks with too much time on their hands. I highly doubt any of them has ever known what a good day’s work is. And, most are social misfits.
That is another theory — that they’re the online equivalent of serial killers, the murder being spiritual, of course.
I Believe for some reason, these “people” think they TINY fraction of A-holes who prance around GR, attacking other members, which includes READERS and AUTHORS, they can avoid the harassing nature of these individuals by kissing their collective asses. The only thing she has proven to any intelligent person reading her BS rant is that she sits and waits until ANYone tries to engage her in conversation. It doesn’t matter if the person is being kind or mean, Ms. Hilton only wants the opportunity to attack them online. Thus, by doing this, she can become all chummy with the itty-bitty snake community that stalks GR. It’s obvious. And this Mahala chick, she is about as intellectual as a piece of roadkill. What a bunch of self praising rubbish that woman spews! I stopped reading her reviews on Amazon because she is so effing predictable. I can’t imagine anyone taking her seriously.
What a bitter old hag Linda Hilton is. I would never read her books after the way she has shown her vile personality as a human being, let alone as an author. It’s obvious that so many of these bullies need mental help. She’s no exception.