Don’t.
Just don’t.
The woman scamster who runs it is worse than a used car salesman.
tabetha jones December 22, 2012 at 6:24 pm
They either you are blind or no nothing of art or book covers. I believe she is amazingly talented and she had quite the following. So the demand of her work speaks for itself
She’s a likeable person, in another universe.
It is still going on and has spread to twitter.
http://carlieroseakaashleighfjenkins.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-true-story-from-owner-of-phoenix.html
Wow, what a wall-o’-text. Is Carlie/Ashleigh just another one of Tabetha’s sock puppets, or is she the one and only person Tabetha hasn’t gypped (yet)? Or, maybe she just doesn’t know that she has been gypped?
Granted, my experience with publishers is mostly limited to folks at trade journals who seem happy to run a research article, as long as it’s topical, and reasonably well written. We don’t get paid for those, but our employers get press coverage, which our clients like. It’s just part of the job.
Have another one.
http://chainedbysamanthabradie.blogspot.com/2012/12/upfront-honest-behind-drama.html?zx=f41c477b747a617b
The only thing I am certain of at this point is that Anna and Rachel are Tabetha.
Wholly crap. Yes, I meant to spell it that way. 😉
This one has a tiny bit more detail, but it still says basically nothing. I tried to google and locate the original owners of Mystic Press, but could not find them.
http://lindsayannekendal.blogspot.com/2012_12_01_archive.html
Good god, it looks like something an angsty teenager would use for a VampireFreaks profile page.
that was my reaction. It’s so cluttered that no single piece stands out. I liked her color choices in the skull cover, but the composition is not well balanced.
Aside from the grammatical issues, this is never a good sign.
She’s a lead stylist in a beauty parlor apparently. I question her explanation about the money. Mystic was only two months old when Tabetha took over. I know how hard it is to make a small press profitable. Daverana has had a lot of set backs and difficulties in it’s short life.
However, depending on the wording of the contract that gave Mystic to Tabetha, she WAS responsible for the company’s debts that were accrued before her ownership. That’s assuming there was in fact a contract in the first place.
Someone who knows how to cut hair properly would probably do a better job of it than I do. But, seriously, how talented do you have to be to trim a “long in the back” page boy that almost always gets pulled back into a pony tail with a barrette?
“Beauty” parlors aren’t my thing, obviously. I don’t want to be “styled.” I don’t want my hair to be “styled.” I want it cut, period. I can take it from there.
Mine neither. I got sick of dealing with my hair and had Natalie give me a buzz cut. It’s grown out a bit and needs a trim, but I do not have to do anything more than wash and comb.
Wow, I wake up and find thirty new comments. And someone forgot to turn on their proxy server between posts as now a whole bunch of people have the same IP.
She’ll claim that she and 29 of her BFFs just happened to be hanging out in the same Starbucks.
Absolutely. And BTW is it okay with you if I link to your blog?
Sure, go ahead.
Have you seen Phoenix Fire’s FB page? It’s unintentionally hilarious, especially the trailer that has a copyright infringement disclaimer. It’s also riddled with typos.
Christmas came early. Thanks Santa for the new blood of nitwittery!
And a Merry Christmas to one and all!
LOL. I’ve already got the cran-apple sauce going, and plan to do the pumpkin pie as soon as the mash finishes thawing. I’ll also parboil the potatoes, make the mornay sauce, and assemble the potatoes au gratin, even though I won’t bake it until tomorrow. So, even though it’s only Christmas Eve Day, it might as well be Christmas.
Since I’m feeling generous right about now, I’ll wish everyone, Nitwits included, a very Merry Christmas.
http://blog.emilysuess.com/author-warns-mystic-press-reopening-under-new-name/
Sweet Jesus, the comments are entertaining.
To be clear, Tabetha was with Mystic Press from the beginning. She didn’t hop on board later. According to the previous owners, Tab ran the company into the ground with her devious practices so they just gave it to her – gave, not sold – and left. Now they’re catching the blame for everything.
I just wonder who she’s going to blame now that they’re gone? The authors? Obama’s economy? The family dog? Whoever it is, you can bet she’ll never accept responsibility.
It is clear that Tabetha was responsible for the troubles with Mystic Press. She has repeated all of the bad practices with Phoenix. People like Tabetha think that they can just become anonymous, but Rusty, myself and B-Truthful hunted down a serial plagiarist who was changing his name almost monthly to escape us.
That seems to be a theme, nowadays. Accept no responsibility whatsoever for your behavior, and blame someone, or something else.
If she wants to blame me for “besmirching her good name,” as Obama would put it, she can do so. I came really late to this party. I’m having fun with her, alright, but if she wants to know what’s killing her business, all she has to do is put down the red hair dye, and look in a mirror.
cussedness Gave the link to this blog so I thought I’d pop on over and see if Tabetha had chased you to this one too. But its far too quiet on here so I would say the prowler hasn’t found it yet.
I do have one question though and I did ask this on Cussed blog too. Why is the young artist being dragged in again? I’m copying and pasting the message from cussed blog to here.
I think this poor girl needs to be left out of it. It’s plain cruel. They even slate her personal blog. What does that have to do with anything that is going on here. I thought this was all about a “supposed” business woman who’s only aim in life is to screw people out of money to support herself.
I thought this was to warn people about a horrible human being and save authors from having broken dreams, not to attack a young girl who is only guilty of being friends with a nitwit. One day this girl will see Tabetha for what she truly is. Surely she shouldn’t have to be ripped apart for being a friend.
I’ve agreed with you on most things, we seem to be on a similar wave length. I even now understand the slut comment. Well played. But I don’t agree with dragging the poor artist name through the mood. She hasn’t hurt anyone.
I’m not the one who used the *s* word.
I agree the artist should be left out of the discussion. She was taken for a ride, the same way the PF authors were.
My mission here is to point and laugh at Nitwits. That’s all.
I just posted this on cussed too. 🙂
mud, that should say mud. On my, I really need to read back through what I write. I’ve copied and pasted this message to another blog too. I must look so intelligent lol.
Shit happens. All you can do is get over it, and smile. No, I’m not being facetious. Sometimes, I have to state that for the record, because otherwise, my snark gets in the way.
Shit happens. All you can do is get over it, and smile.
It’s hard to get over something when it was uncalled for in the first place. But I’m sure she will bounce back and this will all be a bad memory for her.
In honesty, I’m hoping she learns from it and cuts all association with Ms. Tabetha Jones.
Ditto. In case it matters, you will notice that I have not stated the artist’s name at all in this entry.
No I did notice you had respect in that hun.
Skylynn Wicker and Rai something are also Tabs.
She’s accused me of stalking her as I’m commenting on every blog I find with her mentioned. I use two names as they’re pen’s for different projects as I hadn’t even realised I was signed in under GM when I commented on the other blogs.
What I don’t get is why people believe here. What have I got to gain by lying about it? What could I possibly achieve from that other than wasting my own time? Plus side, if she’s wasting all her time stalking blogs and making up fake IDs, she won’t have time to con people.
Also; Her attourney doesn’t exist. I’ve been threatened with them about a million times, so I said I’d take their details and discuss it with them…never replied and I’ve asked about ten times! It’s not slander if it’s true! Love you all x
Has she sent you any fake PayPal invoices for $4k yet? I ask, not because it’s in her bag of tricks (that I know of), but because it is a much
abusedused Nitwit tactic.A lot of people have asked for these details and to the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever been given the details. She just tells people she doesn’t have to make it public knowledge.
As far as I can tell, this is not simply a case of a clueless wannabe publisher in over her head. If that were the case, she’d have said as much, and repaid those she gypped, even if it meant eating ramen noodles and rice for a month.
I agree.
I’ve been following this on the various blogs, and I’m not so convinced that Tabetha is deliberately scamming anyone. She strikes me more as grossly incompetent to run a publishing house (or any other kind of business for that matter) and too stubborn to admit it. So she lashes out at just criticism of her practices and generally makes an ass out of herself. Doesn’t change the fact that Phoenix Fire Publishing appears to be really bad news to anyone serious about their writing, but I’m not seeing a deliberate attempt to take money and not provide services.
BTW, could people please stop using, both here and on other blogs, the word “slated” to mean insulted (or something similar)? In the words of the great Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word…I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Tabetha is older than 15, isn’t she? Because, if she’s not, I
can find an excuse for her. Otherwise … not so much.
What does it matter what words we use? We all know what we mean by it.
Any author knows that semantics count. If you mean “slag,” then don’t say “slate,” just because they start off with the same three letters. Snake and sneeze also start off the same, if you catch my drift.
Martha, I was confused by what you and Lindsey meant by that word on other blogs until I read it a few times and figured it out from context. Just like I could start calling a dog a cow and you might eventually figure out what I meant, but it would still be a misuse of basic English, something that makes an author look unprofessional.
Jenny, I have seen a copy of her contract and it is the worse than the one from Blu Phier
Luckily for me I’m not an author. So I’ll speak as I like.
I was being a little snarky. I’m not an author either, but I do see value in making oneself clear. If you google Nickolaus Pacione, you’ll see why. He fancies himself a fantastic author and publisher, yet has trouble stinging together more than a single coherent sentence at a time. He doesn’t pay most of his authors, either, but I’ll give him credit for not demanding that they fund his little hobby.
Wow Martha, and you criticize others for attitude.
Jenny, I don’t think anyone would be bothering with Tabetha if she didn’t owe several people money. Her only concrete and provable response to that is to tell them to “get over it.” I don’t know about you, but most people do not like to be told to get over it when they are owed money.
Amanda, refusing to pay people money that they are owed doesn’t necessarily equal a scammer, though. I’ve been around the writing world for a very long time (I remember the original PA-Atlanta Nights sting for example), and the word “scam” sometimes gets tossed around too easily. I try be careful about distinguishing scams from simple crappy business practices by incompetent people.
A scam is someone deliberately setting out to be deceptive, to take money without ever intending to provide the promised services or products. Was this Tabetha’s original plan? Or did she get in over her head, run out of money (or badly mismanage it) and decide that her best course of action was to close up shop and not pay her debts? I’m seeing lots of stories that back up the latter, not so much for the former. It’s still wrong, and she needs to honor the commitments her former company made, but it’s different than a “scam”. Does that make sense?
Jenny, if you talk to many of her authors – the ones that aren’t Tabetha’s alts, that is – you’ll find that she has indeed maliciously and deliberately scammed authors out of their money. There are employees she hasn’t paid, either. It’s very much on purpose, and people are going to keep calling her on it until they get paid. I’m one of them. To call her merely incompetent is an insult to incompetents everywhere.
Lepplady, I’ll readily admit that I only know what I’ve read here on the blogs. I admit I could be wrong about her.
I’m still slogging my way through the comment minefield on Emily Seuss’ blog entry from 2-1/2 weeks ago. I feel like I need a scorecard to keep track of Tabetha’s alts. She rivals Iron Dave.
I don’t know about all her alts, but I do know Anna Lovelace is a real person. She is a writer of paranormal erotic fiction. I do think she may use a pen name, but she certainly isn’t Tabetha. The others…. That is any bodies guess.
Admin, have you read through Carlie’s, Samantha’s, Lindsay’s and the Erotic blog as well? They’re pretty chuckle worthy too.
Carlie’s:
http://carlieroseakaashleighfjenkins.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-true-story-from-owner-of-phoenix.html?spref=fb
Samantha’s:
http://chainedbysamanthabradie.blogspot.com/2012/12/upfront-honest-behind-drama.html?zx=902980519313b234
Lindsay’s:
http://lindsayannekendal.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/mystic-press-put-to-rest-after-true.html
Erotic Romance:
http://www.eroticromancepublishers.com/2012/12/mystic-becomes-phoenix.html
One of my favorite moments comes from the ER blog.
Tabetha, insists that my daughter Thea was offered a contract by some mysterious submissions editor that nobody’s heard of – and got fired for it – and that said submissions editor used Tabetha’s email to do it. Her business one. My daughter, she claims, never wrote her at her private email because, she says, “I don’t make that available.”
Oh really?
Here’s a screen cap of her making her private email available in one of her rants on the Seuss blog:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151567435186102&set=o.139480299536867&type=1&theater
It’s the amusing little moments that I treasure.
On that use of “slate”, it does date from the nineteenth century and is routinely used in Britain.
Oops. My apologies then to Martha. I did Google to see if there was a usage of the word that I wasn’t familiar with, but nothing came up.
The screen capture link doesn’t work.
Yes we do use it a lot in Britain hun.
Martha, where are you from and how old are you that you would choose to refer to Lindsay as the “young artist” as if she were a fragile child? She’s an adult. That criticism on this thread was very very mild.
I’m beginning to wonder if you, martha, are actually Lindsay herself. You see, Lindsay’s IP traced back to NASA.gov. She was using a proxy. Now, why would Lindsay use a proxy?
I found two places where Lindsay forgot to turn on her proxy server. LINDSAY KENDAL IS MARTHA WILSON
Lindsay Kendal is not Martha Wilson, I am Martha Wilson.
Would you like me to scan my birth Certificate?
To answer your previous question, I am 57 years old, I am from Manchester, England UK. Lindsay is 29 years old, and therefore she is a young girl compared to me, and Lindsay Kendal is my niece. I don’t know what a proxy is, I am with Sky Internet if that offers up any help. I have the internet, TV and Phone package with them. But I do not know what a proxy is.
Oh, and another thing, Martha/Lindsay, that statement about a birth certificate is one I see Tabetha use often. Hmmmn. Coincidence?
Oh Jesus good lord, how would you like me to prove my existence? As it seems no matter what I suggest it is not good enough. And DO NOT insult me by likening me to that vile woman. I would rather people believe me to be fake than liken me to a woman so wildly hated.
Last I heard, Martha, the internet providers did not require a birth certificate to assign IPs.
Considering both my niece and I live in the UK, how is it even possible for us to be connected to NASA?
I offered my birth certificate to prove my identity and age
I don’t mean to sound rude, but everyone who may disagree with something a blog host or affected person of Tabetha Jones says seems to be accused of being fake, or of being someone in disguise. I understand that Tabetha has alias’s but that does not for one minute mean everyone else does. If you require proof of identity I am happy to send it, I certainly do not have anything to hide. And quite frankly I’m disgusted at even having people think that of me.
Martha, why wouldn’t you say from the start that you’re her aunt? There’s nothing wrong with that. I’m defending my daughter. Nobody would have held that against you. If it were true.
Lepplady, the reason I didn’t say was for two reasons, one being the fact that I would have instantly been seen as bias and two, nobody would have paid attention to the fact that I do not like this Tabetha, I would have been seen as a fake, (I suppose that doesn’t matter as it seems now I am anyway.) trying to defend someone associated with her. Also, I did not want this woman running to my niece and attacking her because her aunty dared speak out against her on a public blog. These are my thoughts and opinions, not Lindsay’s, but I think she has has enough upset with causing more between her and Tabetha.
Now that the cat is out of the bag I will say this. Lindsay and I are currently at logger heads. She understands my worries where Tabetha is concerned, but she assures me she is not getting involved any more. She is simply doing the covers and hosting some authors on her blog. I have told her she is not to comment, or even read these blogs any more.
My niece was at my home when this was first noticed. We wouldnt’ be able to see each other over Chrismas and her and her sister came around to swap gifts. She was broken hearted and I consoled her and told her not to retaliate. Sadly she didn’t listen, she was too upset and her mouth ran away with itself. I was however proud to see that she only defended herself and not the witch.
We have had a blazing argument over the telephone this afternoon as she has found out my son educated my on how to comment on blogs. She knows I have been on here and another site and refuses to come on and read what I have wrote. She doesn’t want me to fight any battles for her as in her words “she isn’t at war with anyone, she just wants to be left alone”. But what am I supposed to do when I know how upset she was and she is my family.
Well, I certainly have to give you credit, auntie Martha. It’s 4:40 am in Manchester. You must be quite the night bird. I confess myself surprised. I’ve got a few years before I reach your age, and I can’t hang much past midnight.
I have never been a good sleeper and I worked a night shift for over 20 years. I haven’t been able to return my sleep pattern to normal since I left my job a little over 6 months ago. I see dawn every day.
I thought it would be something like that.
I will also add this. I know for a fact Tabetha told Lindsay her and her work was being savagely attacked and told her to come here and basically kick arse. How do I know this? I was sat beside Lindsay while she was logged into Facebook and I read the post. THAT I was FAR from impressed with. I don’t even think Lindsay read the posts properly before she wrote on here.
Would you be so kind as to point me to the comment(s) that Lindsay left on my blog? I can’t find any.
Sorry hun, I meant on the other blog when she came online regarding being mentioned in the post. Sorry for the confusion.
That’s alright. I’m sure it’s confusing for you, keeping track of her comments.
That sounded snarky, and no, it wasn’t hard since she only commented on the one blog. I made a simply mistake. Nobody is infallible.
I was a nurse, I worked in the Accident and Emergency department. Hard work, but a very rewarding career.
If anyone has any other questions for me, or would like me to prove my existence please do let me know. Tell me what you would like me to send and I’ll send it. I will not post anything with my address or too personal details on a public blog, but I would be happy to email the site owner directly.
I am logging off and going to make myself a cup of tea, I’m going to read my book and wait until sleep decides to come. I will check any responses tomorrow and answer any questions.
Good night all.
Martha, sky issues fixed IP numbers. A proxy routes the comment through a series of servers that span many countries before it lands, thus hiding the point of origin for the comment. It was started to prove help for people in countries where their lives would be in danger if the true point of origin was known.
that should be “provide help”
I’m glad I stayed online a little longer. That’s actually very interesting, thank you for explaining it. You learn something new every day. So if my understanding is correct, it shows as NASA because I’m in the UK and not the USA?
Hello, Martha. *waves*
I thought you left on vacation this morning, yet you stopped by again a little over an hour ago, which would be in the wee hours of the morning, in the UK. If you’re not home, who’s using your static IP address?
Hello, sorry, I’m Martha’s daughter. I’m house and dog sitting while she is away. I just wanted to read the blog she’d been talking about. Please accept my apologies for any confusion or problems caused.
OM Fucking God, there’s another one of them.
Excuse me? Is there a need for such language.
Is there someone I can speak to here privately please, and can this message be deleted when seen by the site owner. If someone could please email me at thenuttyhousegirls@gmail.com it would be appreciated. The information I need to share is very personal.
Regards.
Oh, I’m fucking certain it must be.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
LOL! I <3 you cuss.
Don’t you just love it when people pretend to be someone else, and think we’re stupid enough to actually believe their act?
They’ve been attempting to convince us for days and days, Melany, but they don’t have the smarts to pull it off.
They? How many of them do you think there really are behind this farce, Cuss? I’m guessing it’s a very, very short list.
Lindsay/lindsay/tabs or lindsay/lindsay/lindsay or maybe tabs/tabs/tabs or maybe tabs/tabs/lindsay.
You forgot all the aunties, in-laws and family pets.
Oh, that’s right. At this rate I can expect an email from Lindsay’s two Jack Russell’s.
Don’t forget their goldfish! Goldfish are pretty darn talented typists! Or so kids on a few games I’ve played would have the moderators think when they get banned for not following the rules.
I love the way “Martha” happened to leave her “daughter” in charge of
monitoring (and using) her email account“housesitting.” Too funny.