Literary Clusterfucks 2013

Is this the correct thread for this?

TW: suicide

an author unalived herself in 2020 "due to the bullying that she'd experienced in the bookish community" and ppl started to buy her books to support her family. last night she posted out of nowhere that she's back😭

— ray (@anoldcurse) January 4, 2023

what in the actual fuck

Paranormal Romance book world, who'd have thunk it.

I haven’t made it past the fact that they created a fundraiser anthology to support the family of a victim of bullying that was made up of romance bullying stories. PARANORMAL romance bullying stories.

articles spreading across second-tier news sites rapidly in the last hour. no Hell hot enough for this person

Holy shit

At the time, a group of authors dedicated this anthology to her, proceeds were given to the family I believe (will confirm). Btw, these are USA Today best selling authors. Susan’s “suicide” was due to bullying pic.twitter.com/vsnprlAVyh

— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 4, 2023

really fucked up that Cole was basically bullied herself for causing a suicide that didn't actually happen.

of course, it's hard to prove for sure that this is actually Susan herself, but i'd assume a family member would have stepped in to clarify by now that it wasn't her.

Andrew, every time I see that tweet I start cackling like a fiend

“I'm normally a lurker here, but thought I should use my break out post to tell you all (at least those who care) that Susan Meachen etc etc”

Discovered a new genre

It’s basically where the main character is treated like crap and there are paranormal elements in the story - could be the characters are shape shifters, werewolves, etc. mashup of sci fi/horror/fantasy.

— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 4, 2023

what if a sexy werewolf was also your mean shift manager at mcdonslds

— Alex P 👹 jorts.horse/@saddestrobots (@SaddestRobots) January 4, 2023

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you've got to be kind - Unless! it would sexier not to be kind."

what if a sexy werewolf was also your mean shift manager at mcdonslds is killing me.

However, it’s come to light that the account may have been a burner page that Meachen created in order to maintain a presence in the book community while also remaining dead.

like lol...she was on TikTok AND posting videos of herself

She’s been on Tik Tok the whole time. Props to @AccNightmare with this. pic.twitter.com/gu32W5HRc8

— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 5, 2023

Author Susan Meachen, back from the dead, with one of the most impressive gaslighting performances you’ll ever read. pic.twitter.com/tHpVd7IFTT

— Anaïs is reading (@anaisisreading) January 7, 2023

Does transcending the pages of a book make me a bad Author or a good one?

Much to contemplate and consider

I do love the defense of, "Oh, I'm only worth money to you dead, you ghouls?" Good stuff.

The best literary clusterfucks are the ones where the author tries to author through it

Decided there was more "healing to be had" by yknow not being dead. She's amazing.

“i told you i would never log off!”

Donors who are angry are "cruelly wishing death on me"

I'm mostly wishing death on myself after having read all that, tbh.

This is my favorite performance by a lit clusterfuck actor. Truly hard to take the side of the victims.

i love when these deluded weirdos fo that “faux press conference” thing with themselves, asking & answering their own questions, it just makes her seem so much more unhinged

I do love the defense of, "Oh, I'm only worth money to you dead, you ghouls?" Good stuff.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, January 7, 2023 7:57 PM bookmarkflaglink

really is expert-level trolling.

has there already been an “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!”- type show with people like this lady, bad art friend, the pathological liar in that NYT article, etc…? feel like I could binge that for sure

main character island

Would watch

Hosted by JT Leroy

Hosted by JT Leroy

― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Monday, January 9, 2023 2:01 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

kudos

Susan Meachen, a romance writer accused of faking her own death, said her online community had become a danger to her mental health. “It wasn’t good for me, no it wasn’t,” she told @EllenBarryNYT. “I wish I had never met the book industry whatsoever.” https://t.co/xebE0BwwJc

— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) January 18, 2023

still can't believe her TikTok was up the entire time she was 'dead'

the whole thing just brings up more questions about this online self-published romance writer community that I do not believe I need answered

feel like this person doesn't really deserve an NYT article

however, am I reading it? yes, yes I am

At their best, the groups are a fountain of support for “indie” authors, who self-publish their work and help each other with covers and marketing, which is known as “pimping.”

Thank u for teaching us this hip new lingo, NYT

but, is it easy?

Started looking at that article but couldn’t be bothered to finish it.

“Literary” giving this all too much credit at this point

Anyone know any updates on bad art friend? Inquiring minds want to know and are too lazy to google I guess.

I totally forgot about that and yet it wasn't even that long ago!

this is why we need main character island

I'm not here to make art friends.

Not a clusterfuck so much as outright racism and transphobia which is thankfully coming back to destroy dude's career

Last week, Tom Monteleone had a FB post that attracted a lot of attention, and was around 800 comments when deleted. Yesterday, Tom joined Hatchet Mouth and Protestant Folk Peasant on a podcast episode called Facebook has AIDS w/Tom Monteleone. 1/24

— Dark Dispatch (@dark_dispatch) January 30, 2023

I’m afraid I have to drop a “who?” on this one

He was a horror editor

I think I can spot where his brain went wrong

Monteleone is an admirer of Ayn Rand, and has described her book Atlas Shrugged as a "personal barometer".[3]

I just read that Twitter thing you posted and my brain froze halfway through when it became word salad
Yeet Skreet and Bones Jonesin on a podcast episode called Beezy Got Threadz w/Brom Tobelerone