For some comedy relief from the never-ending shenanigans of the bullies, we highly recommend checking out a new site called . The pointing commentary from an author of biting humor and sharp wit will certainly give you a reason to smile. Here are a few of our favorites.
First, AA’s review of Fionna Free Man’s book:
Then, AA’s thoughts on the “Blogger Blackout”:
AA’s message to Blythe Harris and all the hatemongers:
And finally, AA on the recent Jenny Trout train wreck:
Whoever you are AA, keep it up! Your blog says it well.
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Once again, thank you for an informative article. I had not heard of “The Angry Author.” And thank you, “Angry Author” for your posts. —- STGRB, keep up the good work. —- I’m more than ever convinced that STGRB provides an invaluable service to authors and reviewers and readers in general. I hope you continue to report on the “bully problem” on Amazon and Goodreads and Booklikes, and other sites. Though these abusers are small in number, they are not a small matter to the vulnerable authors and reviewers whom they target for malice and abuse. —- As an Amazon customer and reviewer, and some one who has long witnessed bully activity in the Forums, let me add the following which pertains specifically to Amazon: —- One thing any customer of Amazon can do: report bullying and abuse when you see it. Report through the “contact us” link provided with the Forum Guidelines, and be specific about the violation of the guidelines involved. I am convinced that Amazon simply does not understand the full extent of the abuse problem —- or how a clique of abusers seeks to control the Forum and use it as a platform to target authors for malice. If and when the management does come to understand how the abusers work, how their patterns of abuse are organized, I am convinced that Amazon will enforce their guidelines. Thanks again, Anne Rice.
Hey. As a kind heads up, the water cooler is referencing how it’s unlikely you’ll post reviews in it being unable to secure print rights.
Sense I’m not a legal expert, I’ll leave it to others to interpret.
It’s from JenTX.
Its seem like the Water Cooler is trying really hard to pin you down.:/ It’s sad.
I just thought it was funny, the other day, when one of the guest characters on season 3 or season 4 of The Good Wife was named Jenny Trout.
Still won’t influence me to read Trout’s books. Sounds too fishy to me.
Crowning moment of awesome. Not sure if I should post the blog link to twitter though. But I agree wholeheartedly.
Nobody tells me what to read, ever. I’ll read whatever I like.
I LOVE your last sentence, Sarah – that says it all!
It’s funny how these Booklikes people will try to get to the conversation first, and try to draw you over to their side with cookies.
Of course, I delete my cookies.
Of course Jenny would be trying to shape the conversation on Twitter to change it to us saying well-thought out negative reviews aren’t OK.
To set the record straight, I’m OK with negative reviews. But not author career shredding, like what Jenny did by petitioning (again, well beyond the scope of a review) to take down something from amazon.
It’s gotten so crazy, I have to specifically clarify my own position on there. Honestly where to begin? I haven’t seen a tweet that wasn’t misleading.
Before it goes down the memory hole (yea I actually read 1984), remember that it was these people shouting out against Amazon’s censorship of sexually explicit material.
This is awesome. I think this should be the next step in the fight-back against the bullies: a lot of independent, anonymous blogs that tell it like it is, calling out individual bullies, highlighting specific situations. It’s too bad Angry Author doesn’t allow comments: I would love to congratulate him/her. I hope more people set up blogs like this one. One recommendation though: be very, very careful to hide your identity. You know these people like to do background checks worthy of a congressional hearing.You need to protect yourself.
Unfortunately I no longer have immediate access to booklikes, so I can’t really make screenshots of when the bullies were crying out against censorship before. Thus for a blog I have to rely on other aspects.
If anyone remembers, it was this big hooplah over Amazon taking down books they personally found objectionable. As you might imagine, some of the bullies were crying to the hill about this. And look at them now, requesting Amazon take down Jefferson and his mistress.
You can’t have it both ways people, either you condone censorship or you don’t.
Also not sure where to ask. Who’s Fox Meadows?
I could have sworn she was a goodreader.
Foz Meadows is a butt-kissing author.blogger
Almost as bad as TroutPout, but she hasn’t yet thought of trying to get another author’s book banned from Amazon as a way of getting publicity.
Ah ok, that’s how I recognize her. Thanks.
What’s unthinkable is that–though granted TroutPout was published before this happened–is that nice authors are obscure, while she get’s a deal?
It’s like trade publishing is on a self-destructive path. Otherwise I can’t rationalize picking more controversial writers.
This is very off topic, but in case you haven’t seen it.
Jane Litte just made the announcement she’s been writing romance novels, getting them published, and has a movie deal. She’s been secretly doing this with a pen name. She wrote a letter to her blog readers and she claims she has no industry connections and no one helped push her forward.
There are no words for this.
OK putting my blog post here for reference. I made it were someone has to literally comment right on that day it was posted to get their comment posted. This protects from known retaliation I’ve gotten in the past for calling out against their BS:
And yes I did use the term cult of personality to refer to the current reviewers. Because that’s what it seems like. That’s what my gut feeling and intuition tells me.