In this post, we want to address something that the bullies have been preaching ever since we started this blog and that’s that we are against negative, critical reviews. Back in mid-2012, when STGRB first went live, the bullies did their best to get us shut down. When they couldn’t, they did everything they could to discredit our site with accusations of bullying, threatening, or harming others. We were accused of doxxing – of publishing people’s address, phone numbers, etc. And we were also accused of being a group of authors who were getting revenge on reviewers who wrote critical reviews of our books. Here is a post we wrote that explains in more detail what happened when we first started our blog.
None of this nonsense was true. It still isn’t.
An example of what we mean is clear as day in an article (a very ill-informed article) written by John Scalzi back in 2012. Without doing any research of our blog or who we really are and what we’re about, John wrote this masterpiece. Here are some screenshots of it.
So, let’s see exactly what John considers to be negative reviews or criticism of books. These are just a few of the many examples we’ve published on our blog
You see, this is what John and the bullies would have you believe – that all of this is criticism of BOOKS, when it is something else, something much worse. These examples we’ve shown are, in fact, deliberate, premeditated, vicious attacks on people. Not books.
John doesn’t just stop at drinking and preaching the bully Kool-Aid, he is probably one of the bigger bullies we know, whose rants have lead to vicious attacks on authors.
If you want to see what happened to Laurell, just check our her books on and .
John’s abuse doesn’t stop there. We’ve heard from several big name authors that it is truly bad form (as an author) to attack or criticize another author, and yet John, just like Jenny Trout, does this quite often:
You will note here that Larry declined the Hugo nomination. So that should tell you how well John researches subjects before he goes off on his ill-informed, pious diatribes.
But he doesn’t stop at authors either. He’s been known to be a bully to people in other arenas, outside of the book world:
We don’t want to get involved in the Sad Puppies or GamerGate fight. We simply want to show how John treats other authors and other people. And when you read his words, you have to ask yourself these questions:
Do they contribute anything to the literary community or any community for that matter?
No.
Are they productive?
No.
Do they help anyone?
No.
All they are are cruel jabs at other authors and other people, and yet John sits there in his ivory tower and preaches on his blog about how righteous he is.
Shame on you, John!
People like John and the rest of the bullies are described very well in the words of one of our loyal blog readers:
“These people…[the bullies]… they contribute nothing to the literary community, to the book world, to the world of those of us who love to read and write books. They’re just in it, parasites, treating it all like a video game! Heaping vulgarity, ugliness and meanness on authors and saying “Take it, or we’ll blacklist and libel you!””
John writes at the end of his article (he is talking to us here, implying that we are going to attack someone on his behalf):
“When I need your help with a negative review, I will ask for it.
If I don’t ask for it, I don’t need your help.
If I do ask for it, you should consider me temporarily out of my head and ignore me.
If you decide to attack someone in my name without consulting me, you make me look bad. That will annoy me, and I may take it out on you, possibly publicly.”
Well, guess what. You don’t have to worry about us trying to help you, because that will never happen. You are a bully, my friend. We would never attack people like you do, especially not on your behalf. And as far as anyone making you look bad, well, that’s already been done.
YOU make you look bad.
And that’s all we’re going to say.
