Who wants drama from obscure sub-communities?

This author gave out some eARCs (ebook advanced readers copies) of a book and then about a month later posted this on her instagram stories.

Btw it does not cost any money to send an eARC. I send them out all the time. DM me and I’ll send you one now. Theft is assuming they were going to buy it if they didn’t get a free one, which, no.

For the record, this is not at all how you handle this situation and it is overall a Dick Move

People protested after seeing this that they never even received their eARCs or that it had only been a month and they hadn’t gotten around to reading it yet, they were not given a hard deadline of any kind. A lot of them left passive aggressive bad reviews in revenge

You reap what you sow lady

Lesson to take away: If you’re ever an author, don’t do this.

I personally love random drama from obscure subcommunities so hopefully you do too! There’s tons of it. Here’s more:

Emily Duncan wrote a fantasy novel full of Jewish stereotypes where the Jewish coded people used blood magic and were evil. She made a public apology but in it she specifically said she did it on purpose and tried to be sensitive about the subject material. So that didn’t go over well. The community was so outraged that a book box (owlcrate) that did her books had to issue refunds

Even better one: author JM Buckler started whining about haters and bullies when people told her that her books (autocorrected to boobs at first lol) didn’t have good representation. She protested that she only had 20k followers so it’s not her responsibility to speak out on anything. She then blamed woke culture for her recent bad reviews and started blasting the reviewers on her page. And then she went off the deep end and started posting a whole bunch of conservative shit and pro trump shit on her author account. She did a big dramatic video about why she was leaving social media forever and was gone for like a month then came back and started a group called “free readers and writers” from the “tyranny of wokeness” ie having people of color represented properly in your book and/or not queer coding your villains. Many parody accounts followed. She’s now a laughingstock.

Another one: an artist who paints bookish scenes (I forget her name, she blocked me immediately) (edit: sweetsequels) made a post in like 2017 saying “why are all of you so worried about black people being killed by the police when thousands and thousands more children of every color are murdered by abortion every year” and then blocked everyone who disagreed and continued to spew bullshit on her business page. Which. Not a smart business move.

Another one: Alex aster, author of lightlark, went viral on TikTok about her book and got a publishing deal from it, rave reviews, recommendations from famous authors, even a movie deal before it was even published. But when regular people actually got the books, one star reviews came flooding in. Turns out the chick is an heiress who was already published and her sister is the ceo of a marketing firm. So not quite the Cinderella story people envisioned. She’s now like one of the most hated authors out there.

There’s lots more, but it’s really only entertaining when the author is at fault and not when they’re forced to reveal deeply personal info/trauma because of it (Lindsay Ellis and Becky Albertalli for example). Tbh I’d find it delightful if I weren’t scared it would happen to me.

Puppy and baby tax

Edit: wow! I never expected this to blow up so much! Thanks everyone for your interest in my work! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1987670639 is the link to my first series and I have another about Aztec vampires and will happily give eARCs to all of you. No strings attached!