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Stolen Cover Art at Phoenix Fire

Hat tip:  Lepplady

It seems that dear, sweet, innocent Lindsay Anne Kendal isn’t exactly as innocent as she’d like us all to believe.  Since Phoenix Fire’s authors hire Lindsay and pay her directly, independent of PF and Tabetha, Lindsay can’t exactly claim that Tabetha is forcing her to use any particular images.  Some are purloined from lingerie catalogs, while others are swiped from DeviantArt, or in one case, from another book for which the author paid the artist for exclusive use of the artwork.

Lindsay can change the name of her “company” all she wants, but it doesn’t remove the fact that she’s in the habit of swiping other folks’ artwork for her amateurish photo manipulations.  I have even more examples of her copyright violations than the ones displayed here.

Notice that one of the examples below is one in which two of Tabetha’s alts collaborated for the Sweete & Lovelace Designs logo.  It’s from a Boss perfume ad.  The original can be found in the model’s portfolio.

Ready for this?
Here are a bunch of links to artwork and photos that Lindsay has used in her cover art.


http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-2012-New-Sexy-Lingerie-Womens-Lace-Black-Solid-Sleepwear-Set-Pink-Bow-Nightwear-G/572919918.html


http://www.foundem.co.uk/M/clothes/Bra/Passionata/Bra.jsp


We haven’t been able to find who she lifted the girl from, but it’s obvious that it’s not original work. The hair is cropped in a straight edge and the right shoulder is blurred out, probably to eliminate a watermark.
However, the vampire in the upper left is this guy:

Goodnight Sam
From a book called Goodnight Sam by author Inger Iversen.
http://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-Sam-ebook/dp/B0069X1IH6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1359394567&sr=8-3&keywords=inger+iversen
She’s pretty pissed, as she paid the artist (who is not Lindsay) for exclusive use of the image.

Lindsay’s creations can all be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.465875330120858.104229.465794143462310&type=3

And “Sweete and Lovelace” (both aka Tabetha Jones) designs do the same thing.

These people don’t care WHO they steal from.


http://amsterdam-jazz.deviantart.com/art/woman-of-dark-desires-187085555

MasterDarkstar69
Too many link results to count:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&tbs=sbi:AMhZZiufD2QfQ8w-1rvy14yKKR1dAw0xPUMIfckYJx_1-thdZzy2TXs6-uoJx1FOlEgRiZ5dsL18Yf5xe3cqafTPhyXS_1k1bbqcve4LRXOTYksa01FkhrXz4d8_1W_1geLCmPYfgvQeKLKVnuefdfAhTrj0kM-4dUr2RLFce1RxZY5PhvMxHkC0VzJsRnq0JJqQ9pyNKoJ7ehMcnCi4lR6D1mBcf2_1ykOJIRYJCmZE7y9H3IgGnkzUAHMr75w6CoYe86MxD_1WwyQF1wLrrw6krnnJi9LDWgdJW2TNJ1JryWXdmwukg9hO1wuCoUHB_1DsmX35ylbgdlKwQU1PxvcAjaxgu-huWFRQJCur3_1KpFHu-SLMf80lPim2XdtGWXa_1pj85GtaV4AUVN2s6K8Yh0u_1l4ZJ413Ql_1DQSDfvGTmIyo4fvJZ3zp3-Ds600hQOG3WV4BKWIjhvxHgocwn05ikFlf_1FJy2Pmbhmed2fz9dLrN5m8xu6Pjpng-a4QjJOUXFVP_16mWCZdzzTbBlKUjJ-UdUHH8r3vOxDJyo6H9v1Uis5Fk4xS5sdC5eKC_1xfASVT2cYami6llmw-b8mkothCPVBYUg2B98RPkQ8cGbngVlptZ4Kq3koKbMtt0ILRwXmG6l0ZnDG1K4duHnuGwdfSEEValCbzXoQN5LVMEbseBRh5RwxijdnxZEuA9iPC1t6GmugaaX-WUYHWKmtKtJ6-txKdnfjU7r48xdaV7Y5M2fbJ-sYdH3bq2QZdlcscQy0WtQ53dI8AwCnz-X3x-Sc1XpjpOhsLTQlV8AillW0SYNbyQo5pnUqAQAhZsJA1_1BVzXuhOCwN0E2UmIXEvzZ9YK7YWjBzQv0NKxrI0KA6GmPP1jZ9hQELfZ JCYKHAC69Ei1XFmmegxeJR4n44HwuIJeYKeHTByvGKa8fL_1xNBqyUCVlT5STYmDarKvopKdAaLidIm1UOLJXa_12yZqjQ_1Zgy04e2EvBRWvnopaKRhd3R2ZCcXcQSpY-AyIHvos8wKYUrrhszuqrMcu5is3Iq-myKkHnjEGAjbMkDK44inu_1CPQF3pxqAo0OvPhYqpxmPcfTnQFQ_1dwtjXmAo6PwmmjnJHoMajEUjwcfqvJVS1fyNbQ_1RTtz6Fl9kE609vCEXfBwNnygItjTheLI7hCPNYZBOI3VhHU_1kqVw-5yFUbCwjp17uCIByQIbIEpiQoZ8RJ554KdA-jcbcTcnpsyB2xOXgHJesznyoNExp59w&ei=lnwHUYSkN8iq2QXZ5YGwDw&start=10&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=624


This one’s my favorite. You have to go to to the model’s webpage.
http://www.danielaurzi.com/
Click on WORK, portfolio, then turn two pages.
This is from a Boss perfume ad.

Have fun.

178 Responses

  1. There are no words for that kind of backhanded thievery.

    So you’re saying that even though she found it in Google Images and a few pixels it might still be infringement? The poor dears.


  2. If you go back far enough in comments to the Phoenix Fire Publishing: Avoid it post, you find that Tabetha claimed that Lindsay had her own stable of models. Seems like that was a lie as was Lindsay’s going apeshit at my initial accusations of stealing art.


  3. There are many more than these. Just about all the images in the Sweete and Lovelace (both aliases for Tabetha Jones) Designs and Lindsays “Inner Spirit” designs are stolen.

    Want to see for yourself? Go to the “Sweete and Lovelace” design gallery
    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.490622430979481.108956.465794143462310&type=3

    Or Lindsay’s “Inner Spirit” designs
    http://phoenixfirepublishing.blogspot.com/p/lindsay-anne-kendal-graphics.html
    or
    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.465875330120858.104229.465794143462310&type=3

    Click on any picture to look at it.
    Right click on the picture that pops up and copy the image URL.
    Go to google.
    Paste the image url into the search window.
    Click the search thingy or enter.
    When no results show up, click where it suggests that you can “search by image” and watch all the results that come up. Their image will pop up at the top. Then, in most cases, underneath that, you’ll see where the original image came from.
    Don’t take our word for it. Go see for yourself. Quick, before they shit themselves and yank the stolen photos. Not that it matters. We’ve already got screen grabs.

    Have fun.


  4. This has popped up on Lindsay’s site:

    “Inner Spirit Graphics and Photography.

    Please note, if an author has images they would like us to incorporate into a design, we will need written confirmation from the image owner/creator/artist giving us permission to use them. Without this, we will not be able to use any images passed on to us. This is so no copyright laws are broken. This does not relate to stock photography (if required by the client) as this will be purchased by Inner Spirit. Receipts will be provided and kept for our records.
    Thank you for your understanding.”

    Right. And if anybody asks about images used for their covers, they’ll be told “Oh, don’t worry. We’ve got receipts.”

    And if anybody asks for proof, they’ll print something up.

    Still doesn’t sort out how artwork is being used that was licensed exclusively by someone else, though, does it?


    • The notice itself is a good thing. Unfortunately, it smacks too much of a cover for past transgressions. It’s basically a set up to claim that the images she used were forced upon her by someone else. To that, I ask why no due diligence on her part to find out about their origins? I can’t help getting a whiff of rotting fish.


  5. Lindsay et al don’t seem to understand that this can be checked independently.


    • All the images that could be traced back to an owner have been reported. There are a few very unhappy artists and photogs out there.

      IF there are any real writers associated with Tabetha Jones and Lindsay Ann Kendal, -you know, writers that aren’t Tab’s multiple personalities- they’re the ones I feel sorry for. They, the authors, are not only being handled by the worst publisher and editor to ever walk the planet, but they also get to wait and wonder if they’re going to get sued for their covers.

      These people are just making friends everywhere, aren’t they?


      • Well, Nickolaus “Ablert” Pacione is probably a worse editor in terms of sheer incompetence, but he doesn’t intentionally steal artwork, and charge his contributors for it. Of course, he only publishes “magazines,” anthologies, and his own steaming piles of incomprehensible dreck.

        True, he did once use a famous National Geographic cover for Quakes and Storms, but I believe he didn’t know it wasn’t public domain, like the images from the NOAA. That’s his fault for not checking, but I don’t think it was intentional the way the folks associated with PF have been doing.


  6. on January 31, 2013 at 1:08 am | Reply lindsay kendal

    Ok, firstly I’m glad I’ve actually seen this. I feel sick and the word panicked does not cover it. These covers are being pulled. I dont care what anyone says, this is genuine error. I do not want to be known as a rip off artist. EVER. I got the two images of the girls from a free stock photography website. I’ve got all the details saved. I save invoices, receipts and everything for images I use. So I’ll be taking this up with the site too.

    The image on Tabetha’s cover was given to me to use after permission was given to her to use the image by an artist on diviant art. I was then contact through my FB page by another author who explained she had purchased the image and couldn’t understand why Tab had been given permission to use it. I put them on touch with each other and told Tab she could NOT release the cover as there was obviously something wrong. I’ve since changed the cover and I’m waiting to sew it swapped over on Amazon. I know everything was sorted out between the author and Tab. I’ve also made it clear that i WILL NOT use art passed to me by any authors unless i receive, in writing, permission from the artist or photographer.

    Excuse any typos, this has sickened me. I’m shaking and trying to type on my phone.

    You guys will only ever think the worse of me and that’s your problem. But i am truly glad i saw this. I just wish you would have contacted me about it. You have all my details.

    I think I’m going to stop doing graphics completely. I’m just going to work on my photography. Its not worth the upset, lies and false represention on the apparently free photo sites.


  7. Hello, I’m writing on behalf of Lindsay. She has tried to send a message to the site but she currently only has the internet through her mobile phone and her post does not seem to be coming through to you. Her message was similar to the follow, she is currently on the phone dictating what she would like me to tell you.

    She says..

    She cannot tell you how sick she currently feels, and if it makes you happy she is shaking from head to toe (and actually struggling to get her words out). Never ever did she ever intend on breaking copyright. The two female models used were actually taken from a free stock image website. It stated on the site that these images could be used for book covers. She said she is contacting Tabetha and telling her to remove the images NOW! She NEVER wants to be thought of as a thief. She also wants to know how to contact the owners of the photos so she can tell them what has happened. (I’m sure we can find out how to do this ourselves.) She keeps receipts, invoices and any consent giving to use images.

    The image on Tabetha’s book was given to Lindsay by Tabetha as she wanted to use it. She received permission from the artist on diviant art to use the image, and so Lindsay incorporated it into the design. Lindsay then received a very polite message from an author explaining that she had purchased the rights to the image from an artist on diviant art. Lindsay explained what had happened and put this author directly in touch with Tabetha. Lindsay told the author she would have the cover changed immediately. Tabetha and the author sorted it out between themselves and Lindsay changed the image. It just needs to be uploaded.

    She says she knows you all think the worse of her and that’s your problem. But that she is very glad she knows about this, she just wishes one of you would have emailed her to let her know rather than just assuming she was a thief. That’s whats upsetting her. She also says she wants to give up the graphics and just concentrate on her photography and restoration.

    Lindsay says she meant to add this to her original post.
    She does not sell art which doesn’t belong to her. Some of the images she plays with are just for show. nothing more. She was told of the free sites for models, but she will never use them ever again. If they want a model and Lindsay can’t provide it, it will come from a PAID stock photography website. She will then send a copy of the receipt to the author and of course keep a copy herself.

    She said after what happened with the owner and the permission with the image on diviant art, she put a notice out that she will NOT use images provided by anyone without receipt or written confirmation from the artist that the image can be used.

    But she really wants to give up the art. She’s very upset and on the verge of a panic attack. She’s frightened to death.

    Please note again these are not my words, I’m just passing on a message which she isn’t able to.


  8. Care to expand that?


  9. She has asked me to pass this on.

    She has messaged Tab through FB to tell her to remove the covers with the two female models on. She is remaking them.


  10. Lance Armstrong wishes HE could backpedal that fast.


  11. Lindsay has just managed to email me the following messages. She asked JT aka Lepplady to post the message, but since I cannot see it (maybe she hasn’t had time.) She has asked me to send this over.

    ****

    I know you won’t want to help me, but I’m still going to ask a favour. Could you please post on the site, or even copy this, that I’m ready to quit the art. I’ll do them for a couple of friends and that’s it, and that’s only if I purchase or take the photographs they want using, myself.
    I don’t want to be seen as a thief JT, it’s not who I am. I can’t get over this and I would rather quit than risk copyright problems. I’m sticking with my photography until I trust people again.
    I’m sorry to ask, but I can’t post on Rusty’s site at the moment and you are the only one on here who I know that can. I can’t spend all night on the phone to my aunty asking her to post for me. I have little to no internet right now.

    JT Larson
    Your previous reply showed up at Rusty’s. He’s just got to approve them, that’s all.

    Lindsay Anne Kendal
    Oh right, could I ask you to pass it on, I’m only on the internet until it dies again. I’m shaking JT, I’m really upset with this. I can’t believe it. I’m putting photos on my site and I don’t want people to take them, I wouldn’t dream of just taking someone elses work. And now I’m having the piss taken. It’s just one thing after another. I want out.


  12. Lindsay can post comments here. She’ll only get stuck in moderation if it’s her first time posting, or if she includes too many links. Legitimate comments almost never get caught in the spam trap.


  13. Thanks Rusty, JT explained that to her on FB. She can only connect to the internet via her phone at the moment and she thought she had lost the message.

    She is contacting the owners of the two female models tomorrow and explaining what has happened and where the images were found. She’s glad this has been brought to her attention, but is still considering giving up her graphic work. She’s very very upset.


  14. Martha, don’t drop my name and make it look like I’m having conversations with Lindsay. She hit me up in a pm and asked me to repeat a message here for her because hers didn’t show up. I said that it had to be approved and it did appear. I answered because I’m polite. That’s it and that’s all. I’m not on chatty terms with Lindsay and I don’t plan to be. Not until or unless she comes clean, and I don’t see that happening anytime soon. She’s spent too much time with Tabetha. The two of them (three of you?) are so alike with their behavior by now that they could share the same DNA.


  15. What exactly is she supposed to come clean about, because on your previous messages to her you said you simply didn’t believe I existed based on an IP address. What is it she’s done?


  16. Oh I certainly wouldn’t make out you were on friendly terms. Why would she be friends with someone who has tried everything in their power to ruin her for making covers. You set out to destroy Tabetha and turned it on Lindsay. Everyone can see that, everyone still loves Lindsay, they always will. They know what you are trying to do and they know its tripe. They all know Tabetha is the evil one.


  17. Look, when Lindsay used Robert Pattinson’s image without permission for the cover of My Vampire In Shining Armor By Carlie Rose, surely she knew she was violating copyright then? I mean, Robert’s image is pretty famous for playing Edward Cullen in the Twlight series…I wonder if it was reported to the proper people what would happen? Ultimately the responsibility falls on Lindsay, and I wouldn’t want to mess around with a multi-million dollar franchise like the Twlight Saga and THEIR lawyers.

    SHE knew that it was Robert Pattinson’s image she was working with in the creation of that cover. Explain THAT!


    • One would think Carlie knew whose visage it was, too. At the very least, she’d have to think “Gee, that guy looks awfully familiar, even though his face is weirdly stretched out horizontally.”


  18. IF Lindsay wanted for everyone to back down, all she has to do is start being honest and admit that she didn’t know what she was doing, that she DID use images that may or may not be copyrighted and just didn’t think there was a problem with it. It might very well be her own ignorance concerning the use of images that has got her into this mess, but she needs to come clean, apologize, and remove all of those covers immediately! Notify the authors that their covers are illegal and let those authors replace the covers with something that actually IS legal. But to notify these authors would mean one would have to admit that the entire operation is a sham. This is what happens when wannabes pretend to be something they are not. That goes for ALL ASPECTS of this publishing company, the artists, the editors, EVERYONE.

    I don’t feel bad about Lindsay stating that she wants to stop doing cover art. She NEEDS to stop. Before somebody gets slapped with a lawsuit.


  19. I was chit chatting with Stephen Blundell on FB, remember him getting tangled up with David Boyer way back when? Well, he had this to say:

    “Their trailer for Graveyard Kisses (I think that was the title) is the same image that David Boyer (Byron) knocked off as his cover. Wow …. talk about retarded (I’ll have to track down the DA artist again … I’m sure he’ll be impressed to see his art knocked off again!).”

    So yeah, Phoenix Fire and Lindsay have some more grief coming their way now that word is spreading.


  20. That is not Robert from Twilight. You’re making yourselves look silly. The image she used is from a great photographer named Andrei Kiselev who’s work you can view on many of the stock image websites including ShutterStock. Nothing to do with a Twilight mega star.

    Oh come on, she’s told you what happened with the two female models, she was contacting them today. That was an error which she has explained and she had the covers pulled immediately.

    So while you may have no sympathies, you look silly. THAT IS NOT ROBERT.


  21. Links please. That IS Robert Pattinson, no matter how much you try and say it is not. But, even if I looked silly for saying so, at least I’d rather look silly for that than be known as a copyright thief. By the way Martha, for somebody who claims not to BE Lindsay or have any involvement, you sure seem to know an awful lot about everything and speak for her. The two models are NOT the only copyrighted images she violated. Every cover has issues, so please stop going on about JUST those two models.

    By the way, just so you know, anyone who is familiar with manipulating images in photoshop knows that when you purchase the rights to use an image you receive an image file that can be resized larger without it becoming pixelated. Just a cursory look at her covers show obvious signs of pixelation. This happens when you use images swiped off from the net, or you do not have the original file. Next you’ll make an excuse for her saying she was given those images and didn’t know any better. If she knew what she was doing, she’d know the difference. This is why she needs to stop. Sorry if it hurts her, but there it is.


  22. I found the series of images by Andrey Kiselev, and I WILL put it out there that I was wrong and it is not Robert Pattinson, so while I MAY BE a silly girl, it still doesn’t explain how or why the image on that cover is weirdly stretched and pixelated if Lindsay did purchase the rights?

    If I am willing to play fair and accept that she did, then it falls back on her totally sucking at photomanipulation and STILL should stop doing covers!

    So either way, she loses.


  23. Robin, thank you for clarifying that. I do have a lot of information as due to internet issues, Lindsay is asking me to post on her behalf. She purchase the rights and has all her receipts. She keeps everything in case anything like this pops up.

    You know, she has stopped doing the covers. She has messaged Tabetha today and is having everything removed to do with her tiny company. You are all so horrible to her and yet your problems are supposed to be with Tabetha.

    What I and a lot of others don’t understand is why you have moved this on to Lindsay. You’re ruining her life and you all enjoy it. Tabetha rips you off, she doesn’t return your money, she pretends to be several other people but you’ll attack someone who made a few covers instead. Disgusting.

    Lindsay will have no association with Pheonix, Mystic, whatever they want to call themselves. This has gone too far when you should be concentrating on bringing down a manipulative thief.

    Just leave my niece out of this. Don’t you think you’ve damaged her enough, and for what. You own amusement. I notice how none of the authors who were harmed by Tabetha have ever had a bad word to say for Lindsay. It’s just you.


    • This has gone too far when you should be concentrating on bringing down a manipulative thief.

      My mission is to point and laugh at tomfoolery. I don’t do law enforcement.

      That said, you do bring plenty of drama llama lulz, Aunt Martha.


  24. I found Kiselev’s gallery, but didn’t see a model that could pass for RPatz. If there’s a link, I’d like to see it. Unlike Tabby/Lindsay, I can admit when I’m wrong and be genuinely sorry.

    For an old girl that limped onto Cuss’s blog in defense of poor, put-upon Lindsay, claiming to be computer illiterate, Martha sure has caught on fast, hasn’t she? Staying up all hours of the night with nothing better to do than troll blogs. And she knows so much so FAST, posting mere moments after Lindsay or any of the rest of us.

    What’s Lindsay got to come clean about? How very involved with Tabetha she really is. Her lack of professionalism about her artwork, whether it’s crippling ineptitude or flat-out theft. All the times she’s lied and aided in the promotion of a scam artist and thief, KNOWING she’s a scam artist and thief. All of that might be too much, though. To admit to any of it would be admitting to all of it, and it just might be too hard to let go of a reality so heavily laden with deceit. At the very least, she could come clean about her hand in Martha’s postings. That meager start would go a long way toward her social redemption, if she’s truly interested in such a thing.

    No matter which way you look at it, Lindsay’s hands are far from clean. If she were interested in doing legitimate business, she would have gotten as far away from Tabetha Jones as possible the very first time it came to light what a crook she is. She’s either unwilling or unable to untangle herself from Tabetha, so she’s just going to have to take her lumps.

    Funny thing. I notice that Lindsay’s quick to defend Tabetha, but when Lindsay’s in the hot seat, Tabetha’s nowhere to be found. What a great friend.


  25. I’m an learning more about computers, but typing on a blog and passing on some information isn’t exactly rocket science is it.

    Lindsay ONLY created covers! Yes she let the authors on her blog! Yes she allowed Tabetha on her blog! Yes she is friends with Tabetha, a lot of people are. Not just authors, editors, artists, general people. Everyone has friends. Do I wish she would just block Tabetha? YES! Because I believe Tabetha is to blame for all of this.

    Lindsay has come away from the company. She isn’t doing graphics. But she has nothing to confess. I exist, whether you like it or not. She won’t lie to you and tell you I’m a figment of someones imagination. I live, breath, eat, sleep etc.

    She’s in over her head. She been a friend to Tab and this is the thanks she gets. She created covers for authors who were happy to use her and you try to make out she is a scam artist for it. AGAIN, no author has ever thought that. ONLY YOU. Also, you may have failed to notice but I’ll say it again… Lindsay has not defended any one for a long long time.

    However, one thing I do agree with you on is this.

    Where is Tab? She knows full well she has caused grief for Lindsay, she knows Lindsay is seen as a liar in your eyes. (only yours) She knows full well that Lindsay is known for her brutal honesty and she’s respected for it, so why is she allowing this to happen. The best thing Lindsay has done in a long time is stop doing any kind of work for this company and concentrate on her own life.


    • I’m an learning more about computers, but typing on a blog and passing on some information isn’t exactly rocket science is it.

      Apparently, spelling, punctuation, and grammar are.


  26. Oh here comes the inner editor. It’s a blog, I’m not concerned with this.


    • You are overly concerned with my blog, despite considering it not worthy of a token effort on your part to be coherent. Do tell me how you think your actions are helping your beloved niece. Do you suffer from OCD, or are you just nutty?


  27. Here’s the image that people (including me) were mistaking for RPatz.

    http://www.dreamstime.com/lovers-thumb13770563.jpg

    I was wrong.

    But.

    You might notice that great big giant copyright symbol all over it. IF Lindsay had paid for it, she would have recieved a high resolution quality picture that wouldn’t pixelate when she enlarged it. It looks skewed and pixelated because she tried to enlarge the thumbnail.

    Like Tab, Lindsay seems to think that she can deny and backpedal and come out of it looking all squeaky clean. Honestly, does she think people are that stupid? Or that if she bullshits long and hard enough that people will get tired of arguing with her and go away so she can carry on with “business” as usual.

    Tabetha was leaving the publishing business, too, after she was busted for being a fraud. But she was back a month later with a new business under a new name. I wonder how long it’ll take Lindsay to start back up again, with yet another new name.


  28. Lindsay isn’t changing her name. She is partnership with a long term friend. She is concentrating on her photography.

    If Lindsay does a little graphics work in between or her friend does it, what does it matter to you? It’s none of your business. And again, yes she purchased the image. I wonder what size was put on the website, has that been stretched? I doubt the original has.

    Lindsay is clean, she has receipts etc for all images purchased and if anyone wants to contact her she will happily show them. You have nothing on Lindsay except the two female models which was a mistake, and Lindsay explained. Stop clutching at straws. Lindsay is well liked, known for being straight forward and honest. It’s just a shame she has Tabetha for a friend.

    You say she will want to come out looking innocent, people already know she’s innocent in all of this. People asked her to make a cover – she did- she got paid. Simple. Nothing more nothing less. Like I’ve said before, only you are trying to make her out to be something she isn’t. Why don’t you go back to the woman who has damaged you and your “kid” (who is 25 and hardly a kid) by taking your money.

    This is getting tedious.


    • I meant that she’d change her business name, you twit. Not her personal name. Your reply makes one wonder, though, why that’s the first thing you’d think of.

      Tedious? And yet you keep coming back.


  29. How I am helping my niece, I’m passing on her messages as I said before.
    You are trying to destroy her. I don’t think this is fair and as JT Larson is defending Thea, I will defend my niece when she being targeted, even though your problems are with Tabetha.


  30. See what you want is for me to piss off. You want to be able to bad mouth my niece and turn her into something she isn’t. You don’t want anyone around to prove you wrong. TOUGH.

    Look at what has just happened.

    OMG she’s used Robert on a cover, oh report her, oh she’s in trouble.

    I come along, give you the photographers name… then…
    OH IT ISN’T WE WERE WRONG!

    If I HADN’T have pointed that out, you would have carried on spreading your lies!
    Get my point??


    • I don’t give a rat’s ass whether you go away or not. My problem isn’t with Tabetha. I don’t give a rat’s ass about Tabetha or Lindsay. I’m not trying to “destroy” anyone, but I sure as hell will point and laugh at their — and your — idiocy. Nobody brings the histrionics like you do, Aunt Martha. Kudos.


  31. Do you have any children Martha? At what age to they stop being your kids?
    Never.

    And don’t worry. Tab’s being dealt with.


  32. No they don’t Lep you are right, but when I referred to my niece as a young girl you ripped me to shreds. Yet you call your 25 year old daughter “kid”.

    Yes I have children, I have four.

    Admin, I should have made this more clear. I was not implying YOU were trying to destroy anyone. I apologise if that is how it came across. I am implying Lepplady is trying to destroy my niece.


  33. I hope Tab IS being dealt with, not only for all the authors sakes, not only for the staff who have not been paid, but for Lindsay’s sake too. Once she is exposed you too will see Lindsay had no part in scamming anyone. THAT is what I am waiting for. Both myself and Lindsay do want this to go through the legal system to finally prove you all wrong.


  34. Martha, Martha, Martha.
    Nobody has to “try” to destroy Lindsay. All anybody needs to do is point out the many errors of her ways and the truth about her becomes obvious.

    The truth about Tab has been exposed. And so has the truth about Lindsay. Part of it, anyway. The rest will follow, no matter how hard she/you kicks and screams.

    I just wonder. If EVERYBODY already knows how innocent poor little Lindsay is, why doth she/you protest so very much?


  35. Because I do not like liars Lep. I do not like Lindsay being made out to be something she isn’t simply for being friends with someone.

    I wish you would take this to court. I would pay for plane tickets for myself and Lindsay to come over and watch this all unfold. THEN you would see the truth about Lindsay and I would have the PLEASURE of watching justice being served where Tabetha is concerned. It may also make Lindsay realise that just because you are friends with someone, doesn’t mean they don’t lie through the backsides.


  36. You don’t like liars? Boy, you sure hang out with the wrong crowd then, don’t you?

    This post isn’t about Tabetha. This one is all about Lindsay, and she had it coming because of her own actions. Not because of Tabetha or anybody else.

    I don’t know if/when it’s going to sink in that hiding behind Tabetha isn’t going to work. It hasn’t yet, so it probably never will. But I’ll point it out to you in plain English. Only Lindsay is responsible for her actions. Nobody else. The sooner she realizes that and takes responsibility, the better.

    A good auntie would point that out and try to teach her niece the moral right instead of helping her backpedal and make so many flimsy excuses.


  37. She has stepped up. She told you where she found the images, she has contacted the owners to explain what has happened and where the images were taken from. She has formally apologised to them and given them all the info she can.

    YOU claimed she use Roberts photo. SHE DIDN’T.

    That’s all she has done. She hasn’t denied anything, the post is here for everyone to see. She isn’t hiding, she’s telling you everything she can. But nothing is good enough. Jesus christ. Why don’t you just put a hit out on her, because I fear until you kill her completely nothing will be good enough.


  38. I don’t “hang out” with liars, I’m currently hanging out on a blog with a poisonous women hell bent on destroying a girl who has done her no harm. Nor anyone else for that matter. She has taken responsibility for the images, what more do you want? Blood?


    • Martha, you have chosen to hang out on my blog. Nobody’s forcing you to do so. Since you insist on waving your ass in the wind, you can’t really complain when it gets a little frostbitten. Just sayin’.


  39. More laughs will do. Keep ’em coming.


  40. The fact is, Martha, Lindsay got caught using and manipulating other people’s work and marketed them as her own creation. That’s theft of IP or copyright infringement. Attempting to “defend” Lindsay by deflecting the argument with histrionics does not change that fact. What’s more, it makes you look like an idiot.


  41. Mike with respect that has been explained by Lindsay herself. Tell me, people who use facebook, blogs, etc use artwork on their sites. They merge them together. Are you going to go after them too. Good luck, there are millions of them. They are not selling them, just decorating their pages.


  42. And there’s the difference.


  43. She isn’t selling them either Amanda, as she stated, she has used some as examples of manipulation. She doesn’t sell other peoples art work.


    • Oh, really? It’s possible that she took the pictures of those models herself. However, you said she got paid for doing those book covers for some of the PF books that got her in hot water. How is getting paid for something different from selling it?


    • Making money off of somebody else’s copyrighted or licensed artwork is theft, no matter what you call it. Deflect and rationalize all you want, she’s still caught.
      And you’re still extremely hilarious.


  44. Not my job to “go after” anyone, and kindly do not suggest that I’m doing so. As for “merging together,” I’m assuming that you’re referring to the photomanipulation of other people’s work that has been posted online and passing it off as their own. If that is not what you’re talking about, you had best make a clear definition in your rebuttal. Regardless, “other people do it” does not establish any legal or ethical precedence. The act was done, copyright was violated. Full stop.

    Them’s the facts. No hysterics, histrionics or barely legible babble from you will change that. In fact, your responses do more harm than good, tarnishing what reputation Lindsay may have and making you look like an incoherent idiot.

    No doubt, you’re about to put together a response while reading this, so I will implore you to do this. Step away from the computer. Turn it off. Take an hour offline to do something. If after responding, consider using proper grammar, spelling and punctuation. Consider further that what you’ve said here had carried very little weight due to your histrionics. Consider that without coherence and reason, you will do nothing to change minds here. Because I know if I see another knee-jerk screed from you, I will consider anything you may have to say a waste of my time.


  45. Any images used in the creation of book covers have either been purchased or permission was granted to the author to use the artwork. So no theft has taken place. She hasn’t CLAIMED it as her own.

    Mike, I will not respond to you. You’re a biggot.

    I will not edit my posts on a tiny blog.


    • I will not edit my posts on a tiny blog.

      Have you noticed that once they’re posted, you can’t edit them?

      Also, have you noticed that little reply link above the avatar by someone’s comment? It allows you to reply to a specific comment, rather than to the blog entry in general.


      • Really? Do you even understand the word you tried to call me?

        Behold, the findings of Dictionary.com:

        “big·ot [big-uht]
        noun
        a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.”

        Note the spelling. Note the definition.

        Again you’re trying to deflect attention away from the facts: that Lindsey used other people’s artwork without permission and tried selling the modified work as her own. Now you’re trying to use name calling to detract from what Lindsay did.

        My stating facts does not a bigot make. Once again, you fail to make a point.


    • Why would permission be granted to the author? It’s the artist doing the “work” isn’t it? The only time an author pays for cover art is when they pay the artist that’s doing their cover. Not the original owner of the picture. It’s the “artist’s” job to make sure the images are properly procured.

      And it’s bigot. Unless you’ve got a very large or extremely biased faucet in your house.


  46. on January 31, 2013 at 11:11 pm | Reply Curious Observer

    Martha, I do not know you at all. As a writer, I have been keeping up to date with this ring of circus’s clowns that they call a business. I do not understand how you think these people are attacking anyone person. I understand that little feelings got hurt. You are stating you do not understand why people are upset, please ma’am if I am wrong let me know.

    Your statement about posting and using pictures all over blogs and such…. I am not looking for exact quotes, you really are not worth my effort… and the issues with money and/or paying. I get the fact that Lindsay loves to dabble in the arts. Now here is the difference between those people using pictures for fun and selling. ON Phoenix Fire Blogspot under Addition services, there is a price of $5 for timeline covers on facebook. With that statement you should understand where this is going.

    Yes, I know you are think this while reading my post. I KNOW HER NAME AND/OR PAGE NAMES DO NOT APPEAR ON THAT BLOG AS OF NOW.

    Back to my point, if there is a price set on a cover, timeline cover, and/or anything else there is money being transfer and items are being sold.
    Example back on Cussedness’s blog there were mention of people that worked with Tabetha not getting paid and cover arts were mentioned. The first to back that up was Lindsay saying she got paid, you do not like liars?

    Which is it, she got paid and Tabetha is running a business or she did not get paid and stealing her artwork?
    See when someone is wanting to go with a publishing house/vanity press research will be done on all aspects of the business: This will include but not limited to the following, Artist, Editors, Owners and Authors.

    Lindsay’s name is attached because it was all over Phoenix Fire’s pages stating she was the number 1 go to cover artist. That is going to open her up to the problems and issues.

    I know nothing about Lindsay. I am not trying attack her just stating that being linked in a business with someone can get people looking into

    Martha, if you took a picture of one of your kids and it was up for someone on the net to see would you want that picture to be changed or altered and put up for sale by someone else?
    Copyrights are there for a reason, it is not “yours”, it belongs to the creator. I do not know all the rules either but I know I cannot take a picture from someone and change it in anyway and pass it off as mine.


    • I believe it was another artist that hasn’t been paid. (I won’t name her. If she wants to jump in and confirm, that’s her decision.) I don’t know if Lindsay ever claimed that she didn’t get paid, but as deep as she is in Tab’s back pocket, I wouldn’t be surprised if she got paid while the other artist got stiffed.

      At least one of MP/PF’s editors also hasn’t been paid.

      They’re trying to be slick by taking Lindsay’s name off of the webpage, but as long as Lindsay continues to do covers for Tabetha Jones and whatever she’s calling her company this week, she will continue to catch the flak that goes along with it.

      And as long as Lindsay tries to get away with using copyrighted material without getting the proper permission or license, she can expect to keep getting called on it.

      And Martha, before you break a hip running back to defend her, let me remind you: Lindsay has changed the images that were pointed out, but continues to use all the others. The woman with the sword, the woman in the black gown, the woman’s hip wearing ruffled underwear with the guy in the distance looking, those images (and the rest) have been traced back to other artists and photogs. She has changed only what she’s been caught at, and is still trying to slide with the other pictures. If she were truly repentant, she would have changed them all.

      If she’s got receipts and permission, that’s great. But then why is she scared so shitless?


      • She was worried about the two female models, no others. Tabetha asked permission for all the art to be used. Once she received it and a high resolution copy of the images, she fowarded them to Lindsay to incorporate into the cover.

        Now since you want proof the other images have been paid for, tell me where it should be sent! Or is it a case of you don’t want to see proof you just want to bad mouth her Lep?

        We have it here, we just need an email address to send it to!


  47. Martha, I did come forward and admitted that I was wrong about Rpatz, the model REALLY could pass for him. But you seem to be overlooking the fact that if Lindsay had purchased the rights to use the image, she would’ve been emailed a high resolution image that does not pixelate when enlarged. Her images ARE pixelated, which proves she used images from directly off the net, you know, when you right click and save an image into the pictures folder on your hard drive? When you try to enlarge those, they get pixelated. That is the reason why any real graphic artist will purchase the images so as to have the highest resolution possible. You won’t get that by swiping them off the net. Further, getting them off a free site does not mean you use the watermarked image in the preview.

    Look, I feel for her, as far as feeling as if people are ganging up on her. But she’s got to understand that until she comes clean about all of this, people are not going to want to grant her any mercy. People make mistakes, it’s ok if she didn’t know that she was doing something wrong. But as long as she continues to deny it, in the facve of so much evidence that proves she didn’t have the right, werll then, I guess she’s going to have to take her lumps.

    I’m guessing that she knows how to post a screen capture, right? How about she do herself a favor, and post a screen cap of a receipt for just this one image, the Rpatz one. She can show the email, and block out any personal info but show everything pertinent to the company to which she purchased the rights to use that image. I think if she did that, it would help prove her own case. That would be my suggestion.


    • Give her a minute. She’ll whip something up for you.


    • Ignore that snotty bitch, notice she still continues to call Lindsay a liar! We have the proof here as you suggested so why is nobody passing on the details of where to send it?


      • Patience, grasshopper. Not everyone keeps vampire hours like you do. It’s getting rather late in a good chunk of the lower 48.


        • I apologise, I have a bad sleep pattern due to working nights for many years. I’m up all night and I have known others who are commenting to be up just as late.


      • Once an argument is lost, insults become the last resort of the loser.


        • Well, you and your friends have resorted to them many times haven’t you JT. No argument is lost, you are not providing us with somewhere to send the proof!


          • Still using the “Somebody else did it so it’s okay for me to” defense? Easy to see where Lindsay got her penchant for shirking responsibility – and I don’t (just) mean from Tabetha.

            Or are you regressing even further to “You started it!” Well, I never called you a bitch. Don’t blame me for what anybody else ‘might’ have done. If you can’t mind your manners, learn some.


  48. Oh, and mentioning the name of the photographer does not prove that the image was purchased at all. Running it through tineye.com or even Google image search reveals not only that image, but many others by him. So just because they appear on various places such as Shutterstock, that still doesn’t mean she didn’t simply swipe the preview from there. It’s already been proven she’s swiped other images without permission.


  49. Curious Observer – I completely understand what you are saying, I do not take that as an attack at all. Lindsay is being removed from the company. She wants nothing to do with it when this is what happens to her. It’s a shame its taken this to get her to see clearly, but she wants no involvement or tarnishing.

    Timeline covers are not created by Lindsay. They are created by Tabetha. Some of the newer covers including Beth’s newly created Desire and Fate, are also designed by Tabetha. Tabetha needs to learn to credit HERSELF and not make out they are Lindsay’s.

    I understand what you mean – because Lindsay is down as the no1, people are assuming they are all her creations, but they aren’t. I hadn’t actually thought of that, silly I know, but I genuinely hadn’t I must confess.

    Robin E.

    I will contact Lindsay and ask her for the receipt. As I have mentioned she has no internet except through her mobile at the moment and so she will have to email it to me, and then I can forward it on. I will contact her tomorrow for this. There is no problem at all with that suggestion. I know you said you were wrong, I don’t know if you saw my post earlier but I did thank you for clarifying that.

    Like I said, I’ll contact her in the morning and get this sorted. Who do I email it over to? How would I post it here?


    • Martha, Lindsay has enough internet to post to her blog and Facebook page, email you and hit me up via PM. It’s a bit too convenient and self-serving for her to say she’s got no internet so she can hide behind you.

      Don’t piss up our legs and tell us it’s raining.


      • Lindsay is using her mobile internet access. How she is meant to remove private details from an email and send it to you though – that is beyond me.

        As she told you, her internet keeps dying and she is waiting for it to be fixed. Why put problems where there are none.


  50. Also, she did say she got the two female models from an apparently free stock photo site. She has reported them and also contacted the owners of the photos to make them aware of what is going on. She claim clean about that, it was a genuine hic-up.


  51. *came clean


  52. The cover for The Devil’s Pet Kitten has the stock number deliberately obscured, which would not be the case if it were legitimately purchased. The lines match up too precisely and there are faint echoes of it if you enlarge the image.


    • That’s what I’m seeing too. She deliberately tried to cover the watermark, which proves she lifted the image from the “free” image site, instead or getting it the legitimate way. Even when you get images from a free site, you have to order them so they will email a high resolution image WITHOUT the watermark. You don’t just click and save the preview.


    • But she’s got receipts.

      Right.

      That’s why she’s got images with blurred watermarks that are pixelated because they’re enlarged from thumbnails.


      • That’s exactly it. Which is why I suggested she post a screen cap of a receipt. She said receipt, so let’s see it.


        • Rather than asking for screen caps of receipts. Why not just check in with the artists of suspected pilfered works and say, “Hey, I saw this thing you did here used as a book cover. Nice job!” If they didn’t give permission/sell the rights, they’ll say so.


          • Have done, and there are several artists and Photogs out there that are not happy with Lindsay and Tabetha, both. But since she produced this one receipt, she seems to have people rethinking her innocence. “Oh, damn. We were wrong about one picture, maybe we were wrong about the rest.”

            We weren’t.

            She still hasn’t explained how she got permission to use a picture that another author paid for exclusive rights to.


  53. *She can post a screen cap right here in a comment. I’m sure Rusty would approve it.


  54. I don’t know how, or if you can. I meant that we can post a link to a hosted image uploaded to say, photobucket, imageshack, or other such site.

    Sometimes the comment might get stuck in moderation, but Rusty can free it to appear on their end.


  55. on February 1, 2013 at 6:03 pm | Reply lindsay kendal

    Say what you want. I emailed the proof of purchase to Janrea who has forwarded it to Rusty. Its a simple screen capture of proof of purchase.


    • How about posting it here?


      • She could, but if she shrinks the width enough to get the whole thing in, it’ll be pretty unreadable. It’s already been posted over at the LON forum. It’s not resizable via point-and-click there, but it’s decent enough that it doesn’t get ridiculously pixelated when you do shift-plus a few times to enlarge the whole page.


  56. I bought the exact same photo, and I have a question. The picture I paid for came pretty freaking big. So why in the world would the image on Lindsay’s cover look so stretched, pixelated and distorted? The image I got was plenty big enough that it shouldn’t.


  57. I’ll say this. It does seem that Lindsay bought the image of the vampire couple that everyone thought was RPatz. I hereby apologize to Lindsay for accusing her of stealing this image. It would seem that the skewed, stretched and pixelization of the image is not due to theft. but ineptitude.

    Looking at the images side by side, the original image and her cover, the changes she made are plain. The guy has brown eyebrows and hair on her cover, and it’s much longer. In the original photo, the guy has (badly) grayed, shorter hair and clumpy, grayed eyebrows. Given the appearance of her cover, it seems that when she tried to photoshop, or when she saved it, she botched it badly. And stretched it. And pixelated it.

    In this case, the culprit of an unprofessional cover isn’t theft, it’s bad editing. If she considers it better to be proven a crap artist than a thief, then she’s vindicated. Once.

    However, it does not absolve her of the theft of other images. If she’s counting on this one receipt to wash her clean, she is mistaken. I can point at this instance and say that she did buy this picture. But it doesn’t mean that she’s innocent. There are too many images out there that she didn’t pay for, too much backpedaling, and far too many histrionics for her to be absolved completely.


    • Lindsay is currently putting together all the emails where permission has been granted to use the images. She has also requested this from Tabetha as SHE provided Lindsay with the images for all her covers after receiving permission to use them. (If Tabetha doesn’t provide this, Lindsay will be contacting the artists directly) Maybe then you will see what I have been saying all along, she is not a liar or a thief. You tarnished her with the same brush as Tabetha.

      She’s just trying to work out how to send it for you all to see without bombarding Janrae with emails. She felt awkward enough asking her to forward the proof of purchase.

      The only things Lindsay is guilty of are the following.

      Being friends with a Disgusting, lying and scamming piece of tripe.
      Using two images she found on a free image site which turned out to be copyrighted. (She did contact the owners though and told them everything.)
      Defending Tabetha months ago. (She hasn’t done it at all since and has even removed herself from having anything to do with Phoenix Fire.)
      Allowing Tabetha on her blog. (It’s Lindsay’s blog she can do what she likes. She has ALWAYS tried to promote other authors in any way she can. I just wish she had left Tabetha off.)

      She has NEVER cheated anyone, she hasn’t lied, she has no need to. Unlike Tabetha who claims to have proof of everything but never sends it, Lindsay DOES have proof and is happy to send it. As seen above. Yes she was paid for most of the covers she created (apart from one, if you want details ask her. Nor has she been paid for the anthology covers) How do I know this? The answer is, we talk. I ask her, she tells me.

      Lep, before you jump on me for Lindsay being paid, consider this. You are going berserk because editors and another artist have NOT been paid (which is very very wrong) you want them to get all the money they are owed, as do I. Yet you were going berserk and telling Lindsay she was a scam artist BECAUSE she WAS paid. How do you work that out? Would you prefer her to join the ranks of the pissed off (and rightly so) and unpaid?

      Ladies and Gents, I did tell you if you wanted to know anything all you had to do was ask her. She’s a very open and plain speaking girl.

      I won’t be able to reply, I’m going to attempt to have an earlier night than normal. I have a busy day tomorrow.
      Good night and God bless.


      • Tabetha is a scam artist because she takes money from writers, then doesn’t provide the services. That she also hasn’t paid most of her staff, or paid royalties, etc. is related, but different. Both are wrong.

        Lindsay allegedly has been paid directly by the writers, according to Tabetha. In return for their money, these authors got covers they can’t use because of the questionable origins of the images. These authors chose to use Lindsay’s services because of Tabetha’s recommendation.

        Whether Lindsay is clueless, incompetent, or both, the fact remains that many of the covers she did are unusable. And she received money for them.


      • “She hasn’t done it at all since and has even removed herself from having anything to do with Phoenix Fire.)”

        Lindsay doesn’t just allow Tabetha on her blog. Two days ago, she hosted a giveaway event for her. She HAS lied, every time she expresses outrage or disgust at how badly she’s been used by Tabetha. She’s still in bed with Tabby-scat, with the covers pulled up to their necks.

        Lindsay’s only pulling this wide-eyed, disgusted-with-Tabetha, innocent act because she got caught. The fact is that she’s still in it up to her neck with Tabby and doesn’t show any sign of changing that. The only thing she’s changed is the name of her company – taking yet another page straight out of Tabetha’s playbook.

        You’ve got a habit of putting words in my mouth. You need to stop it. I never said Lindsay was a scam because she got paid while others didn’t. I said she’s a scam because she’s still personally and professionally with a known scam. She continues to lay down with that thieving bitch, and she’s just as thick with fleas.

        If Lindsay really wanted to be free and clear of the blame for the lying, cheating and stealing associated with Tabetha Jones, she would have parted company when trouble with Mystic first started with Brandy and Wendy. It was Tabhetha that caused it then, just like it was Tabetha that caused it before it closed. Just like she’s screwing up PF.

        Lindsay has tried to remove herself from blame in the company for a year by saying “Oh, I’m just the artist. I don’t know anything about the business.” That’s utter bullshit. She’s kith and kin to the company and the fraud that runs it. No amount of receipts or permission slips will ever change that.

        If Lindsay wants to clear herself from Tabetha’s crap, she’d distance herself from Tabetha. But she hasn’t. Che got her name off the website, but I’d bet dollars to donuts that she’s still doing PF covers.

        She’s as plain speaking as Tabetha. She tells you whatever it’ll take to convince you that hse’s *blink blink* innocent, and all the while she’s carrying right on with the same old tactics.

        She can backpedal and boo-hoo all she wants, but her reputation is just as tarnished as ever, and it will be as long as she associates herself with Tabetha Jones and whatever she’s calling her company this week.


        • You try to make out she was more involved than she was. It was only about a month or so before Mystic closed that Lindsay began to create some covers – NOT ALL.

          She doesn’t run the business or help with the running of it. She doesn’t know how to run a publishing firm nor does she want to. She has enough going on in her life without added more. SHE DOES NOT RUN THE BLEEDING COMPANY FROM THOUSANDS OF MILES ACROSS THE SEA!!!!!!!!!

          She doesn’t see contracts, paperwork, accounts etc. JUST COVERS. For Christ’s sake! Be told!

          She is a friend to Tabetha! Nothing more!!!


          • Sorry, Martha. I’ve explained this before, but I’ll say it again if once more helps it sink in. I’ve seen business related correspondence from Lindsay to Wendy//brandy from before Tabetha took over Mystic Press in the first place. She’s been in it from the beginning.


            • Lindsay has told you, Wendy and Robert tried to scam her. You’re talking about eye candy designs. So get the story straight. Lindsay was going to take legal action against them before they pissed off. Your making your own version of the truth for tiny little things you have found.


              • The message(s) I saw from Lindsay to Wendy/Brandy/Robert seemed awfully friendly for somebody who was poised to take legal action against her/them.

                Claiming animosity to try to absolve herself of blame seems to be a long-standing ploy of hers. Maybe one of these days it’ll work, but not yet. Keep trying.


  58. Fair enough.


  59. OH! and how many times will you need to be told this…. SHE IS NOT DEALING WITH PHOENIX FIRE!


    • Right. That’s why she’s hosting events for Tabetha.


    • http://lindsayannekendal.blogspot.com/2013/02/please-welcome-author-misty-burke-and.html

      Misty Burke is not only an author, but also one of Phoenix Fire’s top editors, if not the only one who isn’t Tabetha herself. Featuring an interview with her, and running a drawing for one of her books is not quite what I’d call “NOT DEALING WITH PHOENIX FIRE,” Martha/Linz.

      There’s no need to scream on my blog; you may undo the caps-lock your keyboard now. Using html tags for italics is a lot less rude.


      • Another one? From yesterday that’s still going on today?

        Just two days ago, she hosted one for Tabetha. Two people showed up. Looks like three have shown up for this one. Pitiful.

        You know, Lindsay/Martha, if you deal with Phoenix Fire’s owner, do cover “art” for PF books and host events for PF authors… that’s dealing with PF. Nobody’s stupid enough to believe otherwise, no matter how many caps you type it in.


        • If she wants to host authors that’s up to her. These authors have not caused any problems, they are just signed with a publisher you hate. She also hosts other authors, but I guess you’re okay with that.


          • You’re unbelievable. Do you really think that she can deal with PF on every level and still turn around and claim she has nothing to do with them?

            Well, obviously you do.

            But do you seriously think anybody else is stupid enough to think so?

            Keep dreaming, darlin.


  60. I want to know if Misty had to pay to appear on Lindsay’s blog. Is Lindsay one of Tabetha’s “blog tour” providers, which Tabetha makes people pay for?


    • I was wondering the same thing.


    • No Janrae, she does not charge. Why would she do that? She has always promoted authors. She used to promote them from a review blog she hosted with a friend, and then decided to host some on her own too.

      She is not a tour provider at all.


      • That former promotional blog friend is one of the two people that showed up at Tab’s promotional event. LOL! So I guess you’d say she has nothing to do with her anymore, either.

        Nah, she’s not on Tabetha’s blog tour. She just hosts Tabetha’s authors. On a blog. During their tour.

        Po-tay-to
        Po-tah-to

        And you’re a liar.


        • Really, well since her friend doesn’t know Tabetha this can’t be true, so no matter how clever you think you are, you’re not. Funny how you think you know everything about someone you have hardly spoken with.


          • As for lies, you accuse her of using a photo of Robert Pattinson, swear blind she hasn’t paid for images etc. Who is the liar. Surely you should have asked for proof before making people out to look silly. Lep you are like a rash, extremely irritating.


            • I was wrong about that ONE photo) I admitted it, and I apologized. The difference between me and you/Lindsay (and not the only one) is that I don’t have to keep coming up with lies to cover my lies, backpedal and lash out. I have a little thing called maturity going for me.

              I can own up to my mistakes, apologize and be genuinely sorry. You/Lindsay should try it sometime. It’s good for the soul.


  61. So she just happens to be friends with all of Tabetha’s authors and with Tabetha herself.

    Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Lindsay is a blog stop on Tabetha’s blog tours. The entire blog reads like an advertisement for PF.


    • I thought you knew, Cuss: Lindsay is BFFs with the whole interwebz, except for a few meanie poopieheads. I thought Martha had made that clear by now. 😉


    • I Hardly think so, since not all the authors on there are from PF.
      This is getting beyond a yoke. Other than the odd author appearance, there is nothing on there about PF. So how do you work that out?


        • Yeah, Lep needs to be put in this.


        • Lindsay’s blog reads like a cheap advertising mailer. There is nothing there about Lindsay herself. None of the normal chatter. Just promote, promote, promote.


          • If you mean because she posts the covers she has made on there, which just happen to be for PF. I don’t see your problem. It was her work, she showed it on her blog. You’re determined to ruin her one way or another.

            What she does with her blog is none of your business. You do as you wish with yours, and she will with hers.


            • My sides still hurt from laughing at you. Do you really enjoy being such a laughing stock? Or do you really think that you actually have a pinky toe’s chance of convincing anybody of your bullshit?


  62. And the bullshit and lies just keep getting more amusing by the minute LOL


  63. What lies??? Tell me that?


  64. on February 2, 2013 at 10:31 pm | Reply lindsay kendal

    What I don’t understand is why you are picking at every aspect of my life. What does it matter what I choose to put on MY blog? How does it affect you? Is it your blog or mine? Who I am friends with is my business. Do I question your friendships? None of you give a toss about me, you all hate me even though you don’t know me, so why does it matter to you so much that you have to write it on a blog?

    You are picking me apart. What’s next? Oh my hair is the wrong colour. Did I breath in the wrong direction? Wait, is it my taste in music? I take it I’m what’s wrong with the world.

    I can’t cope with this anymore. You tell me my aunt, my own blood, doesn’t exist. You tell me I’m a scam artist for taking money originally from Mystic for around a month to create covers – before the authors came directly to me. Would you prefer I’d been short changed instead? You tell me I haven’t paid for the images, you post it everywhere, I had the proof that I did and I showed it to you. But hey, you already posted everywhere that I was a liar, a thief. How that is fair is beyond me, but as always, you’re right and I’m wrong. (Well, that’s not true is it!)

    Next you will be telling I’m responsible for world famine.

    Now you’re pissed with me because I’m friends with Tabetha. That’s playground issues. Plus, what does it matter to any of you who I am friends with? NONE of you give a shit about me. NONE of you know me. NONE of you care about me. NONE of you would give a shit if I dropped dead tomorrow. Lep would probably laugh and tell people I deserved it.

    You’re making me feel ill. I don’t deserve this. If you don’t believe my family exists that’s up to you. How the frig would you know when you don’t know me? You wouldn’t know me if you fell over me in the street. I live thousands of miles across a large ocean – so carry on. If this is what makes you happy then do it. If you want to slag me off for promoting authors – do it. I would rather help an author where I can and have you slag me off, than not. If you want to think I’m a liar, when I’m not, you do that.

    Aunt Martha, please just leave them to it. You just fuel them. Do you not see this is what they want? They want to upset you, and me, and anyone else that isn’t part of their click. Don’t give them the satisfaction. I have nothing to hide, my life is an open book for everyone and anyone to read. I’ve done everything I can to prove myself to people who actually have no effect on my life at all. Who are as important to me as I am to them.

    I can’t take the stress of this anymore. I will never comment ever again. So JT when you come back with all your rants and abuse and false accusations, they will fall on deaf ears. I had a lovely, quiet and peaceful life before you all entered it, and now it’s filled with nothing but stress and upset, all caused by three people who mean absolutely fuck all to the world. This stops for me. I’m not reading, I’m not replying. I’m not getting involved, I don’t care what you say or think from this moment on. If you want to come at me, do it legally, and then when you are presented with all the proof I have, maybe then you will leave me the hell alone. Or move on to some other poor bastard somewhere.


    • Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay. True, I don’t give a rat’s ass about you, but indifference isn’t the same thing as hate. If you can get so completely freaked out and shaken to the core by what some folks on the internet are saying about you, that you grab your phone and call your batshit insane aunt at 3am, you’re as nutty as she is. Take a tranquilizer, or something.


      • She has every right to be upset when people are trying to ruin her.


        • Nobody has to TRY to ruin her, Dot. She did that herself the first time she swiped and image, and she keeps doing it every time a lie slips out from between her lips. Or flies from her fingertips.

          You/two don’t seem to realize that if Lindsay had nothing to hide, there wouldn’t be anything to call her on.

          Just like Tabetha (who we haven’t forgotten about, make no mistake), Lindsay continues to claim innocence while her own actions belie her. When she learns to fly straight, she won’t have to sweat the turbulence.


    • You use the same histronics as your aunt.

      Fact: You got caught taking artwork not your own, altering it clumsily and passing it off as your own work for book covers. Whether it was through ignorance of copyright and trademark or willful intent, the deed was done, and this blog made mention of it.

      Fact: You claimed not to be affiliated with PF when your blog clearly says otherwise

      Opinion: You’re also guilty of being clumsy with Photoshop, but fortunately for you, you can’t be sued for that.

      If you get this hysterical over a blog with a limited readership and come here ranting and raving, you’re doing yourself far more harm than good. If you ‘t handle any sort of input less than glowing praise, you need to shunt any form of art that you claim to do to being a hobby, because you clearly lack the chops to be a professional at it.

      Regardless, no matter how much you and your “guardian aunt” rant, rave and scream here, it doesn’t change the facts. End of story.


    • Nobody really cares. But as long as you keep lying through your teeth, you keep opening yourself up to scrutiny.

      No, I don’t want you to drop dead. Seeing you foam at the mouth on cue is too much fun.

      I’ts pretty simple. As long as you keep lying, you deserve it. So either stop lying or deal with it.

      Why do you/Martha keep bringing up this very large ocean and those thousands of miles? We know where it is. Why are you trying so hard to convince us of how far away from Tabetha you are physically? Because you think geography absolves you of the guilt of your association? Well, it doesn’t. As long as you keep doing business with her, you two/three might as well be wearing the same pair of jeans.

      And why in the world would you have to make a show out of telling aunt Dotty not to talk to us anymore publicly? Why not just pick up the phone. Just like all your denials, it’s all for show. And, like you, it’s all transparent.

      Whirl, dervish, whirl.


  65. You’re right, this will be my last comment. After all, I forgot, one of these idiots is a supposed journalist, and remember, journalists are well know for lying, claiming it’s the truth, and ruining peoples lives to try and be noticed and further their own careers. We already proved her to be a liar after she published emails she stated would be private.


    • I don’t regret losing my temper when I got inundated by alts of Tabetha’s and published the emails. The truth needed to come out.

      I broke my word when faced with a great many questionable emails and brought the truth to light.

      Breaking ones word =/= lying. I have not told a single untruth during the ongoing investigation into the suspicious activities of PF and Lindsay. I have noted when what I was saying was speculation.

      Speculation (when labeled as such) =/= lying. You’re very free with your ire and still fail the test, “martha”


    • Pot, meet kettle. You published PMs to me, so you’ve got no room to talk about anybody else.


    • Oh, lookies. We have a bona fide flounce! Haven’t had one of those in a while.


    • She’ll be back in 24 hours.


  66. on February 2, 2013 at 10:56 pm | Reply lindsay kendal

    Sorry meant to add this. Someone on here or the other blog posted a comment saying about friendships, and where were my friends now etc

    Well… YOU’RE RIGHT!!! so yeah, I’m an arse. They made bullets and me being the fucking idiot I am fired them. WELL NEVER AGAIN!! Because nobody is here to tell the truth about me!!!


  67. Four in the morning and Lindsay’s chatting up other authors that used to be with MP/PF. Honestly. Does she never sleep?


  68. who’s she chatting and where?


  69. […] Lindsay and her dotty aunt Martha foaming at the mouth, posting at all hours of the night over on Rusty’s blog about Lindsay’s stolen images. The one/two of them put on quite a show, posting endlessly and generally looking like a complete […]


  70. Personally I fell for Tabetha’s lies myself 🙁 Does that make me a bad person. I trusted her as a friend then she stabbed me in the back :*(


  71. I had no choose but to wise up when she/Eric started to threaten and bribe me 0.o Honestly, shit still is hitting the fan.


    • From what I’ve seen, Eric is nothing more than a bully. Typical Killeen Tough Guy who is used to intimidating people.

      You aren’t a bad person for trusting her. We all have trusted people we shouldn’t have. Some people make it up to us, other people make it worse.

      But, what’s with the bribery?

      I’ve seen him threaten people, mostly with poor grammar and spelling, but the bribery thing is new.

      Care to amplify on that?


      • Right, Eric is the one from Killeen. That explains the address there that Tabetha used for one of her many “business” mailing addresses. His mom still lives there, doesn’t she?

        People think Tabetha’s moved around so much because of all the addresses she uses. But all the while, she’s been in one place, snuggled down into that crappy little house in Waco, laughing and smugly thinking she’s got one over on us because she uses other people’s addresses as her mailing addresses for her “business” stuff. Her mom, his mom, his sister, and a few others.

        Why?

        So that nobody can find her to serve her with legal papers, of course. Or so she thinks.

        Keep right on thinking that, Tabs. Right up until you open the door and there’s a WHOLE lot of uniforms standing there will ALL kinds of papers to give you.


      • In my neck of the woods, we call people like that punks.


  72. 🙁 my poor fan is finding out just how wrong/mean they can be 🙁


  73. Kendal, sweety, stop it. Look, you weren’t aware of exactly how copyright worked. You still associate with someone who is obviously a crook who has a husband who threatens women and children and is a known white trash bully.

    Step back. Step away from Tabitha, stop headlining her and playing BFF with her.

    You screwed up, you admitted it. I get that it happens. Hell, I’ve made mistakes myself and once settled out of court with an artist for a heavy amount when a publisher gave me the artwork and I did the cover using stolen artwork. (Of course, the affidavits I signed meant the publisher went under from the legal fees, but fuck them)

    We all make mistakes.

    Stop compounding them.

    We get it. Tabetha’s your friend. But doesn’t it bother you she threw you under the bus? Doesn’t it bother you that while you showed up to defend her, she is nowhere to be found to defend you?

    You’re being loyal to your friend, we understand that. It’s admirable that you are not only defending yourself, but defending Tabetha because you feel she’s your friend.

    But where is she? Where is her husband? Why isn’t he coming out screaming and making threats and calling names? Why isn’t Tabetha in here to proclaim your innocence?

    You screwed up but that happens to all of us.

    But you claim you want out of all of this. You claim that you’re pulling covers and establishing the rights to use the artwork that you’ve used when you can.

    Yet you still do favors for Tabetha out of “friendship”, you still promote her works, do covers for her books.

    On one hand you tell us how you’re turning over another leaf, but then you just go ahead and keep right on doing what you are doing.

    So which is it? Are you going to distance yourself from Tabetha and her bullying SO, or are you going to just keep right on doing what you are doing?

    You can’t have it both ways.

    And yeah, these people will accept when you reform and try to change. Lord knows I’ve put my foot in my foot, even on this very blog, but a sincere apology and fixing what I did goes a long way.

    So you have a choice.

    Stop supporting Tabetha.
    Or continue to support her.

    Your actions speak louder than your words.


  74. on March 1, 2013 at 7:18 am | Reply intrigued reader

    does anybody have a real life way of contacting tabetha, like a physical address of any kind.



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