In our last post, A Story of Real Author Bullying, we showed you a case of genuine bullying as opposed to the case of Sarah Daltry who cried bully. In this post, we want to talk about the other author Mercy Pilkington featured in her article The Bullies Win: Authors Abandoning Publishing Over Online Behaviors, Nadine Christian.
In her final blog post, Nadine described what happened to her and presented evidence of the nasty emails and messages she received from online trolls. She also had long conversations with both Mercy and Anne Rice, telling both women what she went through and why she’s quitting:
If being in the public eye led to that sort of vicious — and obvious stalking — was it worth continuing? I love to write, but would putting my work out there be worth the heart ache? The reaction I feel deep down every time I open an email from someone I’m not sure of was starting to give me stomach pains.
She wasn’t bluffing. She did quit. If you click on her blog post link, you’ll find this:
All we have to say about Nadine’s story is that it’s incredibly sad. We do, however, have a great deal of respect for Passive Guy’s thoughts on it:
Now, what about Sarah, who claimed over and over in her posts that she was closing up shop and shutting down? Has she removed her books or her blog?
Nope.
Not only are her books still up in the online bookstores, her blog is still up, only it’s been privatized:
Of course, this doesn’t surprise any of us.
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hi….just doing some searching…re Anne Rices post on bullying and found you again.
After the furore died down, I tried to begin writing again, but to date….nothing. I do have three books will my agent now, but have not written a word. The bullying clarified into some known, and some still unknown people.
I’m hoping that if my books get picked up, then the joy of why I write may return….
Anyway, I wanted to say thank you for standing up for authors who probably would not themselves.
Kindest, Anon