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It looks like GR is on a sock-puppet/carpet-bomber banning marathon these days. Right after we heard about Xox (1400+ carpet bombs) being banned from GR, we heard from another blog reader that Valentina and Cersianna Jones (pseudonym) also got the boot. If you click on the links below:
You get this:
Keep it up, GR! We love seeing bullies, carpet-bombers and socks disappear from the site’s membership in such rapid succession. Bout time!
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Goodreads Review Fraud
Social networking sites that are common bully hangouts:
Absolute Write
Amazon Forums
Goodreads
Kindleboards
Blogs to avoid:
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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
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Now if only they would remove all their one-star reviews. My GR profile took another battering from them recently for doing nothing more than supporting STGRB on a public board.
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Cersianna was so clearly a sock. And she’s one of those who confused one author with another because they had very similar names. Good riddance.
Here is a link to a highly emotional post by a very nice author who worked hard for a long time but finally gave up thanks to the bullies. It happens all the time, and most authors are not as vocal about it.
http://sarahdaltry.com/2014/04/05/closing-time/
I think this covers almost everything STGRB has been talking about since it started.
Anon-a-bus, we’ve heard a conflicting story about this author and therefore can’t publish any blog posts on it yet. We’ve been searching for evidence of this author being bullied and can’t find anything. She doesn’t mention on her blog who bullied her and we can’t find anything to suggest she was. We’ve seen this before — an author crying bully and yet there seems to be no evidence of it. This happened with author Jac Wright who claimed to be the next Lauren P. We have a feeling that now that Sarah’s story has gone public, http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/the-bullies-win-authors-abandoning-publishing-over-online-behaviors, she will become a target of bully harassment, so she may have just brought it on herself. We’ve sent Mercy an email to let her know our stance on this subject.
Still sad, regardless of the reason. The couple of books I checked out are ranking really well, so it’s obviously nothing to do with her writing skills. Nevertheless, she needs to do what is best for her.
Not really sad. We have it on good authority that she isn’t a victim. Far from it. More on this to come.
Yes, we have reason to believe this author is not telling the truth. She has not been bullied but is instead “crying bully”.
Hey Anglea!
Congrats on Miranda’s new career! The future is really looking bright, isn’t it??????? I guess that gives her something to do now that nobody hangs out on your bba whisperer blog anymore! Careful that all the millions of enemies she’s made don’t come back to haunt her!!!!
I see that Stick Up The Ass has changed her picture to Buttcrack In A Kilt! Still as crazy as ever!!! Now she’s going after MM writers who signed the petition! Its too bad, one of them was one she liked!! Now she’ll have to stop reading her!Living by your principles can be difficult! Hang in there, Buttcrack! Your boycott will shake the MM Romance world to it’s foundations!!!
Uh Oh! Things are getting sticky! Miranda says she is going to hand over the screenshots of me mentioning her to a lawyer! I is skeered! I is vewy vewy skeered! Please don’t hurt me, Miranda! But just in case I took a screenshot of your post, printed it, and am going to stick it on a bathroom wall in a public bathroom! Just in case something should happen to me!!!
Dum Dum DUM!!!!!