First there was Jenny Trout, who attempted to sabotage this author’s book and encouraged her fans to pirate it in a recent blog post (for which she was dumped by her publisher.)
Now, there is Amy Strickland. another author and one of Jenny’s friends/followers, who is using her connections with people at Smashwords to have the same book removed from their site:
According to Amy, what we do (and what everyone who supports us does) is just a vindictive campaign to fight against critical reviews. The bullies will often say this knowing very well that it couldn’t be farther from the truth. They make this argument, willfully lying to others and also lying to themselves. Our blog and our mission has NEVER been about fighting against critical reviews. It has ALWAYS been about fighting against bullying. The bullies know this. And the kind of bullying we’re talking about is epitomized in the recent actions of Jenny Trout and now Amy Strickland. If a book is bad, then leaving a review that you didn’t like it or even hated it is perfectly fine. But trying to sabotage the author’s book and thus her career, and telling people to pirate the book if they must read it to see how bad it is, is completely unacceptable. And if you doubt what we’re saying here, if you doubt our message or our mission, all you have to do is call up Jenny’s publisher and ask them why they dumped her. You may be surprised by their answer.
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An Addendum
We just received this screenshot of a Twitter post by Jenny Trout:
The irony? We now know that Fionna Free Man, the author of the book that disgusted Jenny and her followers because they thought it was racist, is a woman of color:
Did you know that Fionna Free Man is black? She is a WoC.
Irony! Irony!
Jenny tried to get this woman’s book pulled because she was disgusted by the concept of it (she didn’t even read it), but in the end, it was Jenny’s book that got pulled.
There is just way too much irony in this story.
