Archive for April, 2014


Carpet Bomber #9, Nenia Campbell

Filed Under: Carpet Bombers, GR Bully by Johnny Be Good — 8 Comments
April 27, 2014

Number 9 of our Carpet Bombers Series.

We were just recently tipped off by a blog reader:

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To this ridiculous article in the Washington post:

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Aw, what nice bullshit the WP has to say about Nenia.  Good thing we have the facts, because now, we’re going to tell you the truth about this “no. 1 reviewer”.

First of all, she considers herself a “Proud Member of the Meanie Brigade”:

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Second, back in the heyday of bullies, when they were allowed to roam free and wreak havoc on authors and other readers on Goodreads, Nenia was one the leaders and moderators of the Badly Behaving Authors group.  This was a group of GR trolls who relished in unleashing organized attacks on authors and readers they considered to be “badly behaving”.  In September of 2013, this group was hidden from public view when Goodreads announced their new anti-bullying policy which stated that GR members could no longer talk about author behavior in reviews and shelves.  If they did, those reviews and shelves would be removed.  In other words, author-bashing was no longer going to be tolerated on the site.

And how did Nenia react?

Well… first she flipped off Goodreads:

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Then, she threatened to one-star books written by authors she assumed were behind our site (even though we have stated time and again that we ARE NOT authors) if her stgrb-supporter shelf was removed:

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And guess what happened?

Yep, that’s right.  Her shelf was removed:

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And of course, she made good on her threat and went on a carpet-bombing spree.  At the time, we managed to get a few screenshots.  Notice some of the author-bashing shelves on the left-hand side:

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When she threw a tantrum and protested to GR, she got thoroughly spanked:

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So, despite what is said about her in the WP article, this is the real Nenia.  A vicious cyber-bully who carpet bombs other authors’ books without reading them either because she doesn’t like the author or she is protesting a policy change on Goodreads.  If she really does consider reviewing to be her job, then we’d have to say she isn’t doing an honest job, nor does she act much like a professional.

Nenia Campbell, no. 1 professional Goodreads reviewer?

No.

Nenia Campbell, no. 1 unprofessional Goodreads bully?

Yes.

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Sarah Daltry Returns

Filed Under: Crying Bully by Johnny Be Good — 8 Comments
April 27, 2014

Surprise!  Surprise!  Guess who’s back.  In less than 20 days of privatizing her blog and “disappearing”, Sarah Daltry, who proclaimed (falsely) that she was “shutting down” because she had been so badly bullied, is back writing books and keeping her social media updated.  That didn’t take long!

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She even opened a on April 23rd:

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Are we surprised?

Let me think about that.  Uh… no.  No, we’re not surprised.  Not at all.  We called this back in our post, Sarah Daltry Cries Bully, when we first noticed her scheming shenanigans:

Uh, okay… *sigh*  If you haven’t figured it out by now, this is bullshit, everyone.  There was no suicidal person who messaged her.  No one called her an attention-seeking whore.   No one has bullied her and we can guarantee that she never had any intention of shutting down her books or her social media.  We know this for a fact because people have seen this author, under other names, do this before.  Her next move will be to suddenly reappear and tell everyone that she has reconsidered and will continue writing and publishing for public consumption because all of the encouraging messages from readers have changed her mind.

Don’t be fooled by this.

Also, several people have had experience with this author in other social media before this whole episode and have told us about it.  All we want to say to our readers regarding this is that whenever someone solicits funds online, be it in the form of cash, services or donations, exercise EXTREME caution.  There is NO reason someone should be asking you for money online, unless you are making a legitimate purchase.

Now, why are we telling you about this?

Because we’ve seen other authors cry bully before.  Last year, author Jac Wright attempted this by emailing us and claiming that he was the next Lauren P.  When we checked out Jac’s books, there was NO sign of bullying whatsoever.  Then, he confided in one of our blog readers that he was doing it to garner publicity to sell his books.  When authors do this, they are abusing people’s sympathy and trust.  They are crying wolf or more appropriately “crying bully” when the bullies have never touched them.  This is incredibly unfair to those authors who have actually been bullied and whenever we see an author abusing people’s trust like this, we WILL call them out.

And we have called out Sarah.

Please, DO NOT feel to sorry for her.  She is not a victim.

Honestly, we’re glad that she’s writing and publishing.  What we don’t like is her crying bully and abusing people’s sympathy and trust.  We want our readers to be aware that she does this for publicity, not because she has genuinely been bullied.

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Bully Hypocrisy

Filed Under: Bully Hypocrisy by Johnny Be Good — 9 Comments
April 27, 2014

We received a couple comments just recently on our blog we thought deserved a mention:

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What cartoon are they talking about? This one:

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We have to agree with Some Guy and Anony Me. They hit the nail right on the head.

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Mother Urges Social Media Sites to Take Action

Filed Under: Abuse, Bully Attacks, Bully Crime by Johnny Be Good — Leave a comment
April 27, 2014

Today we are sharing with you a very sad story.  Unfortunately, it’s a story we’ve seen before and it is something that happens when bullies take their bullying too far.  It’s about a boy in Ireland who committed suicide after being bombarded with abusive messages from online cyber-bullies.  After his death, his mother urged these sites to provide the police with the identities of the abusers so they could be held accountable for their actions.

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Because we’ve seen this before, we urge all parents who have teenagers to keep watch over what is happening in their social media accounts.  Please don’t let your child become a victim of online abuse.

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Unmask Goodreads Bullies Update

Filed Under: Unmask Goodreads Bullies by Johnny Be Good — 4 Comments
April 24, 2014

We’ve had a few blog readers ask us what happened to the group running Unmask Goodreads Bullies, a site we endorsed last month that was supposed to have had its official launch on April 1st of this year.  We’ve learned just recently that they’ve decided to remove their blog and Facebook page in order to consolidate their efforts with STGRB.  Instead of running an entire site and Facebook page, they will be working in the background to help fight the injustices done to others online by those known as the GR bullies (and exiles) and the Amazon trolls.  UGB made this decision on their own and even though we’re sad that we’ll no longer have a sister site, we’re glad that they’ll be helping out.

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Gavin Hetherington the Author and Gavin Hetherington the Thief

Filed Under: GR Bully Meltdown by Johnny Be Good — 20 Comments
April 21, 2014

From our four part series Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes, we shared a story about Gavin Hetherington, the author, who befriended the bullies to smear an enemy of his and in turn, was bullied and defamed by the very trolls he thought were his friends.  In the story, a passing peddler left a link to this article on both Evil Queen Shelby’s blog and our blog:

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Because of , which included a screenshot of his birth certificate (that we suggest is in his best interest to remove at this point from the public eye), the trolls have come to the conclusion that Gavin the author is not the same age as Gavin the thief.

But they’re wrong.

If you look at the title and date of the article above, it was written in May of 2010 when the old lady (who was the victim of the theft) was 89 years old.  She was, however, 88 years old when the theft occurred:

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Which means that the theft occurred in 2009.  Also, if you read the screenshot above, Gavin the thief was 17.  Therefore, in 2009, Gavin the thief was 17 years old.  Based on the information Gavin the author gave about his birthdate, he would have been exactly 17 years old in 2009.  So, he and the thief share the same age and coincidentally, the same location.

So, what are the chances there would be two different Gavin Hetheringtons exactly the same age and living in the same area of the world?

At first, we thought the chances would be very slim, but as it turns out after having done some research, the chances are very high.  We found several Gavin Hetheringtons of similar age living in the same area.

Also, and this is VERY IMPORTANT, we looked into the article’s story and contacted the people involved.  After following a long and arduous breadcrumb trail, we found that Gavin Hetherington the author IS NOT the same person as Gavin Hetherington the thief.

So, Shelby and her minions did indeed wrongly accuse Gavin the author of a crime he didn’t commit.

We feel an apology is in order.

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Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes, Part 4

Filed Under: GR Bully Meltdown by Johnny Be Good — 30 Comments
April 17, 2014

Welcome back for the continuing story of Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes.  Below is Part 4, the grand finale!  If you haven’t read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, we recommend it before continuing.

Enjoy!

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Having been banned from Evil Queen Shelby’s court and from the Kingdom of Goodreads, Gavin returned to his home in the land of BookLikes and :

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And Troll Grim felt bad:

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And rivulets of dissent started trickling in:

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Then, suddenly, a flood erupted and that’s when the fighting began, instigated again by Troll Edward:

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To Sir STGRB’s non-surprise, he was blamed for the whole thing even when he had had nothing to do with it:

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So, SIr STGRB shook his head in wonder and continued to watch Evil Queen Shelby’s minions fight amongst themselves:

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Watching the whole farce play out, Sir STGRB scratched his head and wondered the very same thing as Troll Char, specifically: why were the fake reviews and twitter gaming suddenly not important to readers who used to attack authors for this very thing?

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Very strange.

Meanwhile, Troll Edward returned to his home in the land of BookLikes and made a public announcement that what he had done in the Kingdom of Goodreads, he had done maliciously and on purpose:

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And Spare Ammo called him desperate and icky:

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Then, the trolls and flying monkeys went after Troll Edward:

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Finally, Troll Amanda , acting as if she had never done anything similar in her entire life:

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Fed up with the behavior of her court, Evil Queen Shelby decided to leave the land of BookLikes and claimed she was going to leave the Kingdom of Goodreads as well:

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But when she received several pleas from her fawning sycophants:

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She decided to stay and they all danced in celebration:

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And Gavin?  What happened to poor, bullied and banned Gavin?  How did his story end?

Well, after having been shattered by the evil queen and her minions, he learned a very valuable lesson:

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He returned to his  in the land of BookLikes and continued once more to rebuild his life and his reputation.

The end.

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MORAL OF THE STORY:

NEVER get involved with evil queens, trolls, and flying monkeys because it NEVER ends well.  Stay very far away from them and their lands.

The reason we shared this story with you is because we wanted to show you what happens to a person when they get involved with the bullies.  Gavin originally went to them to smear his enemy, Joe.  In the end, he was the one who got smeared and bullied.

This is perfect example of why it’s best to stay away.  DO NOT associate with the bullies.  They are not your friends.  They will turn on a dime and you will suddenly find yourself the target of their hatred.  You will be guilty until proven innocent and what’s more, for many of them, you won’t be able to say anything to dissuade them from their conviction.  The best thing to do is stay far away from them.  Far, far away.

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Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes, Part 3

Filed Under: GR Bully Meltdown by Johnny Be Good — 16 Comments
April 16, 2014

Welcome back for the continuing story of Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes.  Below is Part 3.  If you haven’t read Part 1 and Part 2, we recommend it before continuing.

Enjoy!

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Suddenly finding himself :

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Gavin was so distraught, he prostrated himself before Evil Queen Shelby and begged for mercy, pleading helplessly for her and her minions to believe him:

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Finally, Evil Queen Shelby had had enough and banished him:

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Then, Evil Queen Shelby wrote a nasty, one-star review of Gavin’s story:

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Afterward, she told all the minions in her court to do the same, so they descended upon it with their dung shelves and one-star carpet bombs:

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But… this wasn’t without warning.  There was, among the members of Evil Queen Shelby’s court, a voice of reason:

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And Sir STGRB thought to himself that maybe those “nutty” authors weren’t so nutty after all.  That this was actually common troll behavior.  Even Troll Edward later declared that he hoped everyone in the land would remain “blissfully unaware of the shit-flinging contest that ensued.”

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He made this declaration for at that moment, something happened among Evil Queen Shelby’s court that hadn’t been seen in the land for a long, long time.  The trolls and flying monkeys began to turn on Evil Queen Shelby, daring to tell her that she was wrong, and then they all started fighting amongst themselves…

End of Part 3.  Stay tuned for the final episode of Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes and the important moral of the story!

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Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes, Part 2

Filed Under: GR Bully Meltdown by Johnny Be Good — 25 Comments
April 15, 2014

Welcome back for the continuing story of Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes.  Below is Part 2.  If you haven’t read Part 1, click here.

Enjoy!

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Despite the evil queen image Shelby wanted so desperately to portray, her conscience got the better of her.  Suddenly and without warning, she turned on her bard and became furious with him.  He, along with everyone in her court, trembled with fear as she raged in a public speech, screaming:

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And then she threatened to destroy Gavin’s happiness:

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Troll Edward, well known in the land of BookLikes for his trolling shenanigans:

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Troll Edward was the first in her court to comment about her speech:

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Troll Bookstooge unfortunately arrived late and asked for Evil Queen Shelby to explain again what was happening:

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Encouraged by Troll Edward, the rest of Evil Queen Shelby’s minions began to speak out in anger, acting surprised and shocked that Gavin was *gasp* actually a liar — that he had lied about his sock-puppetry in the Kingdom of Goodreads and about his fake followers in the land of Twitter — as if they had never heard Sir STGRB’s warning weeks earlier:

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Then, Gavin did something very brave.  He mustered his courage and dared speak out, attempting to defend himself in front of everyone in the court…

End of Part 2.  Stay tuned for Part 3 of the continuing story of Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes.

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Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes, Part 1

Filed Under: GR Bullies, GR Bully Meltdown by Johnny Be Good — 9 Comments
April 14, 2014

Once upon a time, in the land of BookLikes, there lived an author, storyteller, and bard named Gavin H.  Although Gavin was good at entertaining the people of the land with his stories, he was jealous of others and wrote a nasty review of a story written by his archenemy, Joe G.  Then, he requested an audience with the ruler of the land, Evil Queen Shelby, and her court of trolls and flying monkeys.  There, he regaled them with tales of Joe’s mischief-making, sock-puppetry, and lies.  Queen Shelby was so enraged, she issued a royal decree:

Go, my trolls, my flying monkeys!  Go seek out this Joe and serve him justice for what he has done.  Go fling your poo at his face and his stories until no one will hire him henceforth.  Go!

And they went.  And they did her bidding.

Meanwhile, a valiant knight named Sir STGRB, who happened to be passing through the land of BookLikes, noticed that not all was right with this Gavin fellow and that he was very talented at telling tall tales.  Sir STGRB noticed that perhaps Gavin, himself, was guilty of the very same mischief as his archenemy, which was sock-puppetry in the Kingdom of Goodreads, and that he was also guilty of acquiring fake followers in the land of Twitter that he claimed was due to charity work he had done.  So, Sir STGRB warned everyone in all the lands, showing them evidence of Gavin’s hypocrisy and lies.  But Evil Queen Shelby didn’t want to hear it, and instead of listening to Sir STGRB, she chose to overlook Gavin’s lies because he was her friend:

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Then, one day, a peddler passed by Evil Queen Shelby’s court and asked her if she knew of a man named Gavin H. who had stolen money from an old lady in the United Kingdom:

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Upon hearing the news, Evil Queen Shelby became angry once again and banished the peddler, while Gavin stood behind her and whispered into her ear, denying that he was the same man:

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But something wasn’t quite right and Evil Queen Shelby knew it.  So, she went to Sir STGRB and looked at his evidence, and then… something changed…

End of Part 1.  Stay tuned for Part 2 of the continuing story of Once Upon a Time in the Land of BookLikes.

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