Well, I just deleted my Goodreads account. I’m done with
Goodreads because they support harassment and cyberstalking.
For the last several years the cyberstalkers have been
harassing me and getting pretty much all the good reviews on my books taken
down and have been using fake profiles of myself and others to constantly write
disgusting “reviews” and messages on my books and those of Christopher
Highland. This situation has cost me readers and potentially damaged my
reputation.
The last straw happened when Goodreads blatantly refused to
pull an obvious fake profile of me, the avatar was a six hundred pound naked
person with my head badly photoshopped on it. This cyberstalker was writing all
over my books that I was getting married to a gay friend of mine. They even
went so far to make a fake profile of my friend backing up their assertions.
Now, get this straight assholes I’m heterosexual. I’m not homophobic for saying
this. The person using the fake profile definitely is because they are
constantly rubbing homosexuality in my face on Goodreads and the comment
section of my blog.
Another reason I’ve also cut all ties with Goodreads is
because they just took down the ability for people on their site to flag and
report abusive content. I used to be able to flag the cyberstalker’s “reviews”
and disgusting comments on my and other’s books. I was forced to constantly do
this. Now, Goodreads has pulled that ability, thus allowing harassers free
reign.
The only reason I’m writing this is to let other writers
know of this situation and to give them a chance to express their displeasure
of the way Goodreads is handing this kind of abuse and writers on the internet
in general.
This is not a time to sit on your hands and just ignore the
situation. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve walked away from this, that says
something. This crap needs to end and it is up to YOU, the writers, to say no
more.
And to the low life pieces of shit that have harassed me on
Goodreads for the last several years. You have won nothing. It is Goodreads
that has broke the trust with the writers of the internet. It is Goodreads that
has turned its back on the writers. So, will you accept this like cowardly
fools, my fellow writers?
