We’d like to report that Jenny Trout and her band of miscreants were successful in their attempt to get Fionna Free Man’s book (a fictional story about Thomas Jefferson’s Mistress) pulled from Amazon:
For proof, here’s a comment from Jenny’s blog:
If you go back and read why Jenny started this take-down campaign against this author’s book, you’ll see it was because she was just appalled at the “rape” in it and how “racist” the book was that it demeaned a WoC (woman of color.)
Now, why are we telling you this? Because Jenny completely got it wrong about both the author and the book. Not only is the author a WoC and a black rights activist, her book has NO rape in it! None!
Really, there is so much stupid in this Jenny Trout story, we’re not sure where to begin. I guess we’ll start with Jenny’s tweets on the subject. Here, she asks how she was supposed to know the author was a PoC (Person of Color):
Well, Jenny, if you’d taken the time to do your research on the author and her book, just like our blog reader did, you’d have known. It isn’t rocket science.
Furthermore, in this tweet, Jenny tells someone that she is known for taking down authors whom she judges to be unworthy (and we all know how good her judgement and efforts to inform herself are):
Now, because of all this nonsense, we have idiots like this re-blogging a post that is misinformed and that gets the facts wrong on all levels:
First of all, Jenny was wrong about the author and her book because she didn’t do her research. Secondly, Anne Rice didn’t tell any of her fans to complain to Jenny’s publisher. All our post, Jenny Trout Sabotages Another Author’s Book, Encourages Fans to Pirate it.
So, Anne had nothing to do with Jenny’s publisher deciding to dump her. The problem started when one of the authors on the project was uncomfortable having her story published alongside Jenny’s, which she clearly states on her blog:
Now, at the very end of Idiot’s re-blog, it says:
This is a really hostile environment for WoC …
And we’d have to agree with that, but not on the part of the “racist fuckheads”. It is on the part of Jenny and her band of bullies. Unwittingly, while trying to exercise her self-granted power of author take-downs and punish a “racist” and her book, she did irreparable damage to a WoC and made herself look like a fool in the process.
Good job, Jenny.
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This article was fantastic. Very well done. Unfortunately, not even STGRB’s recounting of events can alter them. It’s such a sad day to see that the bullies now have a new tool in their toolbox of ways to ruin an author’s life.
Thank you for your excellent reporting on this. Much appreciated.
You’re welcome, Anne. We wanted to get the facts set straight since the bullies seem to lose track of them all too often.
It’s intentional on their part Johnny, I assure you. Bully logic dictates that if any facts should paint them in a negative light, then the problem is obviously with the facts and not them.
I can’t believe that Trout, and her troll friends, are happy to have this book pulled, after all their whinging and whining about freedom of speech and censorship on GR. Such a pack of hypocrites!
Plus, Trout hasn’t even read the book. So, how can she have an opinion on it? Ridiculous!
Jenny literally makes my head hurt. I couldnt rationalize her crusades anyway, but not researching that she’s a woman of color?
Twitter research at its finest.
She gives real feminists a bad name.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say. And Jenny’s little scheme doesn’t seem to have helped her sales much. She never cracked the top 1000, in spite of all her bully friends announcing that they were going to buy her books, and her sales ranking on Amazon (for her latest book) has been going steadily down for the past two days, which means she hasn’t had a recent sale. Not much to show for all the effort she put into creating drama.
We’ve heard this. That she didn’t it deliberately as a publicity stunt to garner attention for her book. Not sure if this is true but if it is, like you said, it didn’t work well, did it?
I’m vaguely reminded of Edgar Allen Poe who would do a hatchet job on reviews to gather attention on his work. Though it should be noted that he died a pauper, and earned a few enemies in his life–though to his credit Charles Dickens was impressed with his work.
Though comparing her to Poe, I think is to generous.
Just FYI the author/publisher of the boxed set didn’t give an ultimatum about Jenny’s book either.
Interesting, I get trashed for speaking out against abusive GR shelving, and she gets praised for trying to ruin someone’s career. Logic anyone?
Goodreads is total Alice In Wonderland. And I don’t mean that as a complement.
Again you can’t get much harder evidence than Fiona Free Man’s video channel. Now that it is pulled from Amazon, it has also inadvertently helped as well from good luck.
Cause if there is no book, Jenny’s claims about racism for a book that “doesn’t exist” appears foolish. Though it was foolish anyway.
Also the link to her work, just people have a reference to the book being referred to. Looked on Barnes And Noble, not on there either.
Again, Fiona Freeman is a woman of color. Yet it’s being called racist.