What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

this means I’ve arrived, right?

There’s a guy on Goodreads whose entire account consists of only eight (8) books: my three novels, all of which he’s given one-star ratings, and five books by R. Scott Bakker, all of which he’s given five stars. His one-star reviews of my first two novels and all the Bakker ratings date to October 7, 2012 - the same time the account was created - and are all timestamped to within the same four-minute period; for this reason, I feel confident in saying he hasn’t actually read my work. His account hadn’t been used at all in the intervening years until two days ago, when he posted a new one-star review of An Accident of Stars.

Which begs the question: what might I have done in 2012 to so fully incur this person’s wrath that they’ve waited four years to show up again and neg my book? Hm, let me think: I DID write a scathing blog post in April 2012 about R. Scott Bakker and some obnoxious, sexist comments he made about women; a post where Bakker himself not only showed up to debate me in the comments, but (if memory serves) linked to it from his own blog to complain about what I’d written. I wonder if that could possibly be the cause? *eyerolls*

So as far as I can tell, this Bakker fanboy found what I’d written six months after the fact and responded by creating a Goodreads account for the sole purpose of trashing my work and lauding Bakker’s, the grudge kept burning long enough that, four years later, he’s popped up to give a new negative rating to my latest work, which I also doubt he’s read.

Man. I’d feel insulted, but it’s actually sort of hilarious because I don’t know this dude from Adam. Hi there, random nemesis! *waves*

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  4. lies said: Checked the comments to see if “it’s an R Scott Bakker sock puppet” had been opined yet. And of course, yes, multiple times. Because c'mon. Gotta be.
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  7. feanna answered: You don’t think it’s Bakker himself? :D
  8. afhenley reblogged this from ekebolou and added:
    Goodreads runs rampant with these parasite accounts. Most of them are other authors. And the groups… don’t even get me...
  9. rhube reblogged this from fozmeadows and added:
    Ahaha, sexist idiots are so hilarious in the ways they waste their lives.
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