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One of our blog readers asked us to share this new anti-bullying site that focuses on stopping the bullying on both Goodreads and Absolute Write. When you get a chance, be sure to check it out:
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It has come to our attention that our site has been accredited to certain authors. We want to let you know that this is false. As we say on our Who We Are page: we are readers, bloggers, and Goodreads members (not authors). The bullies want people to believe that we are "authors seeking revenge". This is simply not true. We are readers who wish to end the hate culture that exists on GR and Amazon.
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is an anti-bullying site "dedicated to exposing cyber bullies and gathering support for legally curtailing their actions and terminating their influence."
Because of the tragic death of Charlotte Dawson, a petition for tougher cyber bully legislation was started and over 140K people have signed it already. If you would like join in, sign here.
if you want to petition Jeff Bezos to protect Amazon.com users and indie publishing authors from bullying and harassment by removing anonymity and requiring Identity verification for reviewing and forum participation.
A group of authors who have come together to mutually support one another and to put an end to online abuse.
Please click the following link to learn about Goodreads committing the crime of deception, violating FTC policies, by allowing corrupt data (fake ratings and reviews) to pass through their API to millions of users across the world:
Goodreads Review Fraud
Social networking sites that are common bully hangouts:
Absolute Write
Amazon Forums
Goodreads
Kindleboards
Blogs to avoid:
Be Still, My Heart
Buried By Books
Cuddlebuggery
Dear Author
Great Imaginations
Midnight Garden
Misanthropic Bibliophage
My Fiction Nook
Pocketful of Books
Pretty Deadly Reviews
The Book Goggles
The Book Owl
The Book Smugglers
The Midnight Garden
The YA Kitten
.38 Caliber Reviews
Read more here.
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This blog is very important. It exposes some amateur scifi fandoms writers who pose as literary experts to get writers to hire them — but they leave a trail of slander and chaos.
Just Google “Teresa Nielsen Hayden + Bully”
Patrick Nielsen Hayden is an editor at Tor Books, a B-level scifi paperback manufacturer. Together with their friends James. D. MacDonald and Debra Doyle, they run the website AbsoluteWrite and lure writers in then bully them. They have a long history of doing so, with their members from a newsgroup rec.arts.sff and their curated webite sff.net, where they post all their buddies and try to rip up who they find threatening.
The woman used to work at Boing Boing for a very short time until her habits of preying on commenters became obvious.
On sff.net James D. MacDonald writes hissy fit rants under the guise of “book reviews” to target and slander his perceived competition.
#Bullying #bullies #writers #publishing #beware #Tor
Also see this:
Teresa Nielsen Hayden Demonstrates How *Not* To Moderate an Internet Forum
https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2008/teresa-nielsen-hayden-demonstrates-how-not-to-moderate-an-internet-forum/
and this
THANK YOU for this link! Absolute Write Reviews is a must-read for writers out there, or anyone creative. So weird how Teresa Nielsen Hayden and James D. MacDonald act like experts but they are clueless. They’re bloggers who quote and publish each other and have the gall to rip real artists. Lowest of the low. They make science fiction look gross.
Quote: “…and Theresa Nielsen Hayden is dumb enough to have claimed a prominent Game blogger with three Billboard-charting club hits “is not acquainted with actual women.”
This is just the tip of a nasty iceberg! Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, James D. MacDonald, Victoria Strauss — these are all a gang hanging thick from an olden days Usenet group rec.arts.sf where they gnashed teeth and hallucinated hostility , banning writers, attacking fans, slandering. libel, etc. Posing like they can get writers book deals to milk money. Total losers! They work for Tor Books.
They also run sff.net. They are not recognized by any serious literary community.
They were SUED by a literary agent (Kudos!) along with Wikimedia Foundation for slander and abuse.
http://thewriteagenda.wordpress.com/bauer-vs-glatzer/
They abused Wikipedia to slander their competition and people they envy!
Wikipedia needs to wise up that these people have trolls working as admins and editors to promote their own even though no one in the world has heard of them. Patrick Nielsen Hayden made hisself head of Preditors and Editors. Very toxic bullying and unethical self-promoting and self-publishing.
Write to Wikipmedia Foundation. Tell them to clean out their sff.net nobodies!
http://thewriteagenda.wordpress.com/bauer-vs-glatzer/
Does James D. MacDonald have a criminal history? Say what?!
http://thewriteagenda.wordpress.com/james-d-macdonald/
I guess hope blinds dreamers, and James D. MacDonald, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, and gang dangle the hope carrot like they can really get people published.
Their workshop would be more aptly named Their workshop should be named Viable Parasites.
They self-promote and spam themselves constantly. But where is anything wonderful they’ve done?
They write pitifully, like dead cliche’. That’s redundant, and not an easy task but they manage.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden is so full of hate and unconsciousness, how is she going to help anyone? On the contrary, they strangle any inspired writers, and have been sued for defamation. W riters Weekly got multiple complaints about Absolute Write and Lisa Spanganberg aka alter-ego MacAllister Stone. Victoria strauss, same bitterness. Same gang.
The rage inside them shows on their faces. (Take a look) He has never written anything without his wife Dr. Debra Doyle (lol!) paperback hack stuff.
I see he calls himself “Uncle Jim” on Absolute Write where they try to lure writers in by making them think they will get published if they suck up. MacDonald, Teresa Nielsen Hayden also sell a writers workshop called Viable Paradise.
Viable Paradise
Writer’s Beware
Absolute Write
All the same people trying to intimidate and shred real writers!! ??!?
Their workshop should be named Viable Parasites.
James D. MacDonald and Debra Doyle, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Patrick Nielsen Hayden are buddies. They are part of the core membership of the sff.net website and rec.arts.sff newsgroup, where they cut their teeth on rage and ridicule against others. A very anti-social bunch.
No wonder the lot of them were sued for libel and defamation!
They self-publish and spam promotions of themselves as critics and writing experts. Where? Where in any respected format are they remotely connected with expertise and sensibilities of the writing profession?
The “reviews” James D. MacDonald levies against unsuspecting talents resemble seizures. Ah well. Takes all kinds. Bottom line, they rely on baiting aspirants with the ruse they *might( just be able to get them published.
There’s a new article on the AntiBullying site about James. D. MacDonald.
What’s this about? James D. MacDonald criminal?
http://thewriteagenda.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/invitation-to-james-d-macdonald-show-your-criminal-history/
I mentioned some of my own peculiarities I’ve encountered when first joining that waste of text known as Absolute Write. Like for example, the hazing of newbies I later found out (a whole two years later, can you believe it?) that turns out to be quite common.:/