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quote 2014-03-07 11:23

"... what often happens in these situations is that the author in question, who feels personally attacked ...sort of combines all of the individual critical voices together and calls “bully,” not because there is a repeated pattern of victimization, but because more than one reader criticizes the author’s commercial product..."

Source: http://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/taking-the-bull-out-of-book-review-bullying/

Source: dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/taking-the-bull-out-of-book-review-bullying

quote 2013-11-17 16:55

Debbie's Spurts

…If readers and reviewers are the stalker-bully-trolls you seem to think they are, why are you (yes, that's right, Y-O-U) the one obsessively following, threatening, harassing, insulting, cataloging, challenging, mocking, fretting over, and in general, just completely making a big deal of the individuals you claim you can't escape from?…

"…And I'm really tired of you guys saying authors who disagree with you are just jealous. Am I promoting my own career by disagreeing with you? Well, yeah, in a sense.

People like buying books from people who aren't jerks. They might not like them, but hey, at least they'll be willing to give you a chance. You know? But even if you're a good author, if you act like a jerk nobody's gonna want to take that risk. Because you're a jerk, and that's a can of unpleasantness nobody wants to open…"

—author Nenia Campbell in blog post at

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/5235644-my-beef-with-bullies

BBA Bully Reviewers Indie Authors Nenia Campbell

Source: www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/5235644-my-beef-with-bullies