Hat tip: Janrae
This group of unhappy miscreants has seen fit to set up a blog on WordPress devoted to spreading unfounded rumors and outright lies against the likes of Ann Crispin, Victoria Strauss, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, and Jim MacDonald. They also have a full page devoted to authors, critics, etc., who they have seen fit to blacklist, including, for some unknown reason, Janrae.
Less than a year old, it consists primarily of pages devoted to people on their shit list, along with links to articles full of innuendo, and to their victims’ websites, Facebook accounts, etc. Clearly their agenda is the wrong one, when it targets innocent authors, industry watchdogs, and others who have strong opinions about scams within the publishing industry.
Ann and Victoria have an entry about it on their Writer Beware Blog. They write:
TWA’s real agenda is to harass, discredit, and intimidate just about anyone who speaks out about literary scams, or supports anti-scam activities.
Bingo.
Till now, Writer Beware has pretty much ignored The Write Agenda. We feel no need to defend ourselves against anonymous groups with obvious hate agendas. Also, despite its best efforts, TWA hasn’t succeeded in attracting much attention, so we don’t feel that its fractured logic is much of a threat to new authors. Plus, it’s kind of hard to take seriously a group whose logo is a guy with a bag over his head
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However, we’ve become concerned by the way The Write Agenda’s venom seems to be spilling beyond the “watchdogs” and into the wider writing and publishing community. TWA’s rapidly growing “boycott list” now includes many writers who have nothing at all to do with Writer Beware or WB’s activities . . . others are included, apparently, simply because they’re SFWA members.
I urge you to go read Ann and Victoria’s article, especially the screenshot page they created. It’s comedy gold.
The Legion of Nitwits officially has a few new members, anonymous though they are.
For added fun, see Writer Be Aware, which appears to be another mirror hate blog hosted at WordPress.
http://thewriteagenda.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/hidden2.jpg
Mr. Boyer we meet again…
edit: I know that is a stock photo and the people behind that are with APB, I was just being silly.
TWA is crowing about how high its blog stats are. It’s probably cumulative since February, since it was only a few thousand below that as of two days ago. In any event, it’s like bragging about how many people showed up to watch your dilapidated barn burning.
It’s only that high because Victoria blogged about it. They can thank Writer Beware for those hits.
Did we ever determine who attentionwhore was on SL?
“Because it had nothing to do with a certain mid-list author and all his “posse” coming in and trying to impose said mid-list author’s will upon everyone. If you didn’t agree with said mid-list author you were publicly scorned or worse. Said mid-list author is sadly misunderstood and was unfairly treated by this particular board. At least in his understanding of history. There are many who know that his understanding of history is massively skewed so as to make him look put upon.”
Awww
I thought the latest hypothsis was Dagswine.
PG claims to know who it is — and it’s not Dagswine. Nobody has ever told me who it is, though.
Whoops! Well then consider me mistaken on that one. 🙂
Scroll down to see the email he supposedly sent to the Attorney General’s Office
Gut instinct tells me that the email is a fake and never sent. Tom Irons is a Deputy Attorney General who worked with AG Steve Carter in suing the fraudulent Airleaf Publishing. Now read the last few sentences. Doesn’t it sound like he’s trying to throw down and threaten Irons in some manner. Not wise when you’ve been outed as a thief, there’s evidence to prove you’re a thief, and the AG’s office is already aware of your shenanigans.
No, I think Tin Foil Dave just cobbled that header together to try to scare off Miss Rector.
It almost sounds like he’s demanding the deputy AG provide him with a free lawyer to defend himself, as though he’d already been arrested. We all know he only has e-lawyers and e-cops. It’s almost as stupid as the woman who called the cops because her drug dealer gypped her, and got herself arrested instead.
But, I agree. I think it’s a fake, and he never sent any such email to the AG’s office.
Predictably, both of today’s SL threads about Boyer have disappeared. I have screengrabs, if anyone’s interested.
Of course. Because Matt Schwartz is a douchebag.
I would like copies of the screen grabs please.
I’ve posted them in a new entry. Feel free to swipe them.
http://reluctantadults.blogspot.com/2011/10/write-pretendas.html
Joe Bob says check it out!
I LOLed. Then I read the comments, and LOLed some more.
For those who care, I’m having a fight with The Write Agenda over here:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/miscellaneous-companies/author-victoria-stra/author-victoria-strauss-fail-59bfb.htm
I noticed Victoria replied a few times, and was listed as being in Amherst. That might explain the hits I got from Amherst, looking at this entry. She probably noticed in her stats tracker that I linked to her entry about the same topic, or saw some referrals from TRN.
I think I made them mad.
http://thewriteagenda.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/janrae-frank-comments-generate-more-%e2%80%9csmoke%e2%80%9d-than-substance-to-shield-victoria-strauss-and-writer-beware/
Evidently, looking at these people funny is enough to make them get their panties in a twist.
http://cussedness.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/the-write-agenda-is-wrong/
My rebuttal. And I have another one up at the Ripoff Report. I have found a new hobby.