Welcome to our new Bullies As Authors series. Ever since the big blowout with Jane Litte coming out of the closet as an author in disguise, Jen Frederick, we’ve decided to start a new series that lists all the known bullies and their online identities as authors. Well, those we can find anyhow. If you know of any bullies who have secret online identities as authors, please let us know by contacting us with the details.
We made this decision because of the many emails and comments that came pouring in over the Jane/Jen debacle, such as this message we received in an email:
I think these people must be exposed for what they’ve done:
1) Essentially try to convince the public that they are vigilant readers, generous with their time and love of books, who are trying to save other readers from “badly behaved authors.”
2)Try to convince the public that authors are irresponsible and childish and need to be policed by “readers.”
3) That there is war on between these “readers” and bad authors.
The headline here is “The bullies have been lying for years. They are actually authors punching down from behind pseudonyms against fellow authors! The whole idea of the vigilant reader asserting her rights is a sham!”
Bullies As Authors
Bully As Author #1, Jane Litte, aka Jen Frederick
Bully As Author #2, Ann Somerville
Bully As Author #3, Jenny Trout, aka Abigail Barnette
Bully As Author #4, Angela Horn, aka Bijou Hunter
Bully As Author #5, Linda Hilton
Bully As Author #6, Nenia Campbell
Bully As Author #7, Litchick, aka Navessa Allen
Bully As Author #8, Pete Morin
Bully As Author #9, Lissa Bilyk
Bully As Author #10, Stacia Kane
Bully As Author #11, HJ Leonard
Bully As Author #12, Leigh Alexander
Its A SELF Project Hatred & Their Own Subconscious Failures….
I appreciate your undertaking this investigation of “Bullies as Authors.” As I’ve argued for quite a while, there has never been any war between authors and readers. Authors love their readers; and readers love authors and books. For hundreds of years authors and readers have shared the same world amicably. —- But there is a war between those who are honest and those who are dishonest. There is a war between those who respect fairness and decency; and those who are dishonest and violate our standards when it comes to decency. —- And this war is being fought on Goodreads, Amazon and BookLikes and other sites. And it involves bullies, punching down against authors from behind pseudonyms, who pass themselves off as “book police” gathering together to target and punish authors they dislike for any number of reasons. These people engage in gang negative voting against their targets; and do their best to stir up bad feeling against their targets through lies, malicious gossip, mockery and scorn. They show a reckless disregard for the truth that is stunning. Now if it turns out that some of these notorious “book cops” are in fact authors themselves? Well, that is extremely important. —- That means they are essentially targeting for lies and malice their own competitors. The Amazon customer has a right to know this. And once again, I thank you for what you do at STGRB. As an Amazon customer, as a reader, as an author, as a person who believes in intellectual honesty, and honesty on all levels, I thank you.
It’s making me wonder how much of this author against author stuff actually goes on?
Back when I shopped at brick and mortar stores, I would have never thought that authors would use reviews of others books as a means of self-promotion their own books. I knew of big companies doing this for like big name competitors–for example big name lawn mower shooting down another big name lawn mower, but I would have never thought this thing happened in book publishing.
In brick and mortar book stores–a fading industry–you didn’t really have to worry about disingenuous reviews except reviews back cover copy, which nobody reads anyway. I was reading a tutorial on self-publishing that mentioned reviewing classic authors as a way of promoting your own work. I suppose the culture starts somewhere.
Not sure where this information is supposed to go, but since I couldn’t find any mention of RequiresHate (a notorious bully in the SF&F writing community) on the site, I figured I’d leave this here:
http://laurajmixon.com/2014/11/a-report-on-damage-done-by-one-individual-under-several-names/