You’ve heard us say that many of the GR/Booklikes bullies are themselves authors. Well, today’s post is a perfect example of that. You will all remember Litchick as one of the GR bully ringleaders, who was also one of the more outspoken protestors of GR’s anti-bullying policy put into place last year. We’ve just recently discovered that she is an author who writes books under the name of Navessa Allen:
She is also a :
When we discovered this fact, it didn’t surprise us in the slightest. It is a strange phenomenon, we’re finding, but many authors will either become bullies or engage in bullying behavior for their own self-interest, either to curry favor, damage the reputation and sales of their competition, and/or promote their own work.
We find this behavior deplorable and urge everyone, especially authors, to steer clear of it and anyone who engages in it.
I suspect she’s an old fan fiction troll too.
And isn’t it interesting her books are highly rated while those of us who are her targets watching our rankings suffer.
The circle jerk of top reviewers who four or five starred her book is just incredible. Look at them: Khanh (gave her 4 stars) Shelby wants some flying monkeys (4 stars) the list goes on and on. I guess her book is just that good, huh?
I forgot to mention the vicious attack Litchick led on Kelly Moore and Tucker Reed. She attacked them for being racist, when she had totally misread the book (it was a dystopian fantasy). Her gang of trolls then piled on when the authors tried to defend themselves. Carroll Bryant gave a pretty good recap of the attack on his site.
Yet another example of the extreme hypocrisy shown by these people. When authors are the ringleaders, it really makes me want to puke. If the only way they can make a name for themselves is through cruelty and bitchiness, they deserve whatever karma might bring for them in the future.
Actually, if you look carefully, she is not a published author. All of her books are fake, not even an ASIN for Amazon, no ISBNs, nothing. Not one of them is at an outlet and some of them have publishing dates out to 2016. But they all sure have nice covers and fluffy reviews. Oddly, Tyra wrote a review and gave it 1* and nailed her.
Anon is correct. “Navessa Allen” yields no search results on Amazon.
On her website, I found four pages dedicated to her own books. None of these pages lead to Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, or anywhere you could buy her books — but one of the pages does lead to a story on Wattpad (a story with a blurb, a prologue, and two chapters).
Her highest-rated book on Goodreads, “Scandal”, is rated 3.8 out of 5 stars. Out of 90 ratings, 46 of them are four-star ratings. People on the thread are raving about how hot the book is. Yet when you click the “more details” link to get to the link where you’d get the book, you get a link back to the page on Allen’s website, which has the book cover, the message “*currently down for editing purposes*”, and no links to Wattpad, or Amazon, or anywhere else — except to another review from last Christmas Eve that raves about the book (while acknowledging that the book is “currently offline for editing – it should be up again soon”).
Gee, how hard do you suppose Navessa Allen’s fellow travelers would slam any author who wasn’t in their clique but who put an unfinished novel on Wattpad and on her website, but displayed it on Goodreads as if it were a finished work?
Here is what Goodreads staff member wrote when I asked about Navessa Allen’s bboks:
Thanks for writing in! Please note we do consider Wattpad a publisher so we maintain books published by them on the site. As well, we allow books to be added to the site even if they haven’t been published yet. We have many pre-publication books on the site, as we’re striving to be a complete database of both published works and to-be-published works.
Let me know if you have questions!
Best,
Daniela
Turns out the Chandler family has a couple of Ghost Books listed on Goodreads. The last Otis Chandler who ran the newspaper empire has an author page:
What’s hilarious is there are two “Unknown Books” listed and they even have reviews and ratings but you can’t find the books anywhere. Beginning to wonder how puffed up the 900 million book database really is? Rachel, who wrote a glowing review of Unknown Book 1958097, was active for two months in 2009 and hasn’t been on since. Appears to be a sock puppet, ironically. Another member, Beatrice-Mal, left a 5* rating after loading and rating 30 books on one day in 2007, the year GR was launched, and hasn’t been seen since. Makes you wonder about the validity of the 30 million claimed members too.
Anybody know the exact relationship between this Otis Chandler and the Otis Chandler, founder of Goodreads?