Annie, this one is for you, a general query about all your insanity toward reader reviewers lately, factoring your release later this year...
Annie, this one is for you, a general query about all your insanity toward reader reviewers lately, factoring your release later this year...
Anne motherfucking Rice...
One of the most successful living authors in the world calls the people on STGRB's shitlist "Gangster Bullies" (I'm a gangster now.... OK... Crime obviously doesn't pay cause I still don't have any fucking money).
Can we just take a moment to fully understand how fundamentally fucking moronic that is?
Annie, I'm not going to call you Ms Rice or Anne any longer, recently I have lost all respect for you, so Annie,
I feel that this is a marketing ploy on your behalf to get your name out there in the forefront of everyones mind because *le gasp* you have a new book coming out later this year. I feel, in my gut (which is rather substantial), that you, Annie, have jumped on this bandwagon of lambasting reviewers for their opinions because *le gasp* you want to be a best seller again. Am I in the ball park at all? Getting warm at all? I think I am.
Now Annie this, and this alone, makes you a moron. Now before I continue allow me to ask...
You're a moron, because this site, this blog that attacks those who do not agree, has been denounced by multiple actual online anti-bullying organisations in the past. They do precidely what they claim to despise and they don't care who gets caught in the crossfire. They make false allegations, they start rumours, and they drop context. Am I a perfect innocent, no. Did I curse at a minor, yes. Have I ever shelved a book as a personal Do Not Read because I do not agree with the authors beliefs, yes. Have I ever gone out of my way to humiliate an author? No. I'm not perfect, no one is. Least of all you Annie.
Now before you get all irate, I want you to know I was a fan of yours. I had respect for you. But not after you sicced your fans on a lone unaffiliated reviewer who didn't like your book. Not after you took personal offense to the reception of Blood Canticle.
You have been in the industry long enough to have surely learned you need a thick skin. So I ask you. Where is yours Annie? Where is Melissa Douthit's? Where is Rebecca Fitzpatricks (She wrote that infamous "Be Nice" bullshit blog post)?
This whole situation really does sadden me because it shouldn't be like this. You of all fucking people should know better. I hope I'm wrong and this is not all a big marketing ploy, I hope to fuck you are not that fucking shallow, but if I am, then it means you're totally naive and ignorant of all the facts. And even though they have been presented to you before, you're incapable of accepting that you're not in the right here.
So, put on your big girl pants, realise that no one is out to maliciously hurt you and GROW THE FUCK UP ANNIE! YOU ARE NOT A FUCKING HERO!
For those wondering what got deleted, here you go. Screen shots!
I haven't gone through all of the comments, and I assume more has been deleted, but you can get a real sense of what she considers "gangster bullies". Even Jenny Trout! (WOW!)
Most of the comments deleted were opposing views about Stopthegrbullies.com (STGRB). Apparently, she simply doesn't care that they use anonymous names, bully authors and reviewers, and play all the dirty tricks she claims to want stopped.
Oddly, there are very few pro comments about STGRB. Why is that? The exception are a few people who have been active in the STGRB all along. So if she can't listen to reason, maybe she should listen to the silence. It speaks loudly. Her fans may support stopping cyber-bullying (as do all of us), but they don't appear to be fans of STGRB either.
Screen shot #1: Full blog post 4/28/2014, early in day - many comments were later deleted
Screen shot #2: Full blog post 4/28/2014, later in day - you can see some of what got deleted
Screen shot #3: Full blog post 4/29/2014 late afternoon
Screen shot #4: Autumn Turner / Misanthropic Bibliophage thread (1 of 2) before it got deleted
Screen shot #5: Autumn Turner / Misanthropic Bibliophage (2 of 2) with final comment (from me!) All deleted.
Screen shot #6: Ole Andreas Imsen comments -- also deleted
Screen shot #7: The now infamous Jenny Trout "Gangster Bully" thread -- also deleted
Screen shot #8: Comments by Elyse Shramm -- also deleted
Screen shot #9: Floras comments to Yvonne before deletion
Screen shot #10: Floras comments have been deleted, Yvonne's still there
And for some fun, do check out Smart Bitches, Trashy Books blog post:
ETA - a list of blogs to read on this topic:
When good authors go to the dark side, by Four Little Bees Writing & Editing
Jenny Trout: Gangster Bully, by Trout Nation
Remixing Anne Rice: Gangster Boogie, Gangster Bully - Let's Rub Some Funk on It