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But my twitter account might be so if you were following me there, please note you’ll need to follow my new account, twitter.com/walkershiloh. I guess I raised a little too much hell and pissed too many people off.

Fundraisers for Australia

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the horrible situation down in Australia. Below are some fundraisers a reader from one of my old yahoo groups shared and I wanted to pass them on.

FYI, I haven’t vetted any of these, but one is from the Cincy Zoo, a pretty stand up zoo, I do believe, and the book is by Skye Warren and friends.

There is a book coming out this week

If you are a Fiona the hippo fan, you can get a t-shirt (ends soon)

Cincinnati Zoo and Fiona Helping Their Friends Down Under

If you like beanie babies, there is a koala you can preorder

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On RWA, Racism, Bigotry & People getting butthurt

In other words…my comments (among others) are still disappearing.

Like this one.

It’s a good thing the post by @Marie Hall is in the moderator’s queue.

Hopefully, it stays there.

Such a self-pretentious bunch of ​dreck.

While you’re extolling the virtues of ICE, Marie, are you aware that ICE has

erroneously deported US citizens?
erroneously deported US vets??
It’s not an isolated incident, either, FYI. They don’t even follow their own guidelines. It’s like…whoa, he looks Mexican, time to scoop him up!
As a matter of a fact, they don’t follow their own rules like 70% of the time when it comes to people of questionable status. They don’t bother to check if the person is a fricking citizen!
A US Marine with TWO tours of duty and a traumatic brain injury spent close to two years unlawfully incarcerated by ice. He’s been in the US since he was three years old!
Perhaps you should run your passionate bullshit by these men, who served their country- the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-only to get scooped up by ICE for DEPORTATION. I bet you’d have LOTS to talk about.
I mean, it’s now common knowledge that ICE doesn’t give a damn about military service…if the person is brown, Marie. There’s proof of it. And unbiased miltary people are aware.
And it’s not that people involved in their arrests AREN’T AWARE OF THEIR SERVICE. THEY JUST DON’T GIVE A SHIT, HEROIC SERVICE OR NOT.
ICE has proven to be prejudiced as hell, arresting & detaining people solely because they spoke Spanish.

And it’s not a case of picking up US citizens and h holding them for a couple of hours. Some have been detained for years.


Others? For weeks, so it’s not isolated. Once in ICE custody, rights disappear & that guilty until innocent? Forget it. The rights US CITIZENS know? They don’t extend to undocumented immigrants & screw you if there’s a case of mistaken identity. But…Marie, you’re white, aren’t you? You’re not likely to be picked up and mistaken for an undocumented immigrant. So, yeah…no reason for you to care. Unless you just care about people…oh, and the US Constitution

So, those are the cases I remembered off the top of my head

Good thing military folks are excluded from racism, right?

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Shiloh Walker
I write stuff
Keep digging that hole…the dirt looks good on you.
www.shilohwalker.com

And then…this one…

“Kris, you’re one of the hostile ones. I don’t need to check your social media to confirm. I know because earlier this year, in this very forum, you said you don’t read f/f romance. You described it as “girl-on-girl sex” and compared it to alcoholism, because you find both distasteful. I remember. I also have screenshots, but there’s no need because you haven’t bothered to delete the posts. 

Tell me, where in those statements am I supposed to feel respected, much less supported, as a queer author writing romances about queer women.“

…BTW, NOTE…I’d advise against flagging/reporting. There’s nothing here that violates TOS, so get over your hurt feelings. I’m known to broadcast posts that get deleted or flagged on my blog. 

 Whoa. Alcoholism, @Kris Tualla Really? I gotta say, as the child of an alcoholic & the mom of a couple of kids who identify as members of the LGTBQ community, I gotta say…you have no clue.

Alcoholism is a disease. Being queer is just part of who you are.

I agree with Olivia. You’re one of the hostile ones. You might couch it in courteous disagreement or try to pass it off as personal tastes but…no.

You’re most definitely part of the problem.

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Shiloh Walker
I write stuff
Keep digging that hole…the dirt looks good on you.
www.shilohwalker.com
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People flag shit they don’t like seeing so they don’t have to deal with it, but of course…that solves nothing.

But hey, it’s easy blog fodder anyway. I’m not about to have my opinions silenced.

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The Overlords of RWA are at it again

They are moderating like hell & damn. Either it’s a piss poor attempt at damage control or they’re just pissed… or the trolls using the self moderating tools run amok.

My post, which was deleted from one forum thread but not the other.

We need a plan of action. That’s pretty a no-brainer.

I propose the following:

Carol Ritter must step down immediately. Her actions over the past several years helped set the stage for our current dilemma and she can’t be part of the fix. No, it won’t be easy moving forward without an ED, but rebuilding on the shaky ground she’s helped foster won’t be any easier.The board must broaden the scope of the audit to go back a minimum of three years, with a focus on how ethics complaints were received and handled from the very minute of receipt. Under no circumstances is Carol Ritter to be involved in the process. If she is amenable, I nominate LS ** [hidden as I don’t want her to feel put on the spot] to step into this role. A full, interim board must be established. I propose we contact members who resigned in protest & ask if they would be willing to resume their roles until permanent replacements are found. If these members, understandably, don’t want to involve themselves, several past board members have volunteered their services and we should accept.Cancel Nationals. It will be joke regardless. Don’t be the punchline.

I don’t know if thewe steps are the answer or even in the right direction but maybe we can get the subject going, if nothing else.

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Shiloh Walker
I write stuff
Keep digging that hole…the dirt looks good on you.
www.shilohwalker.com

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Somebody has a trigger finger (UPDATED)

So, RWA’s forums have this ‘self moderation’ thing, where if a member feels a post violates rules, they can tag it, it gets hidden until a moderator can review it.

Lately, a lot of my posts have been being flagged. EDITED TO ADD… TODAY, I HAD TWO POSTS REMOVED… Somebody really doesn’t like me.

Now there is a particular troll on the forums I pissed off, a racist twit I pissed off, and any number of NWLs (Nice White Ladies) who probably not very happy with me. Any number of them could be flagging my posts out of sheer pettiness.

And…okay! That’s fine. I’ll just repost them on the forum. And on my blog. Because the posts they keep getting flagged are the ones where I’m calling out bias, and yeah… I’m not going to be silenced on that. Since I made it clear that deleting my posts will just result in having them posted publicly…well, we can’t say they weren’t warned, can we?

So, my latest post, which was in response to a member deciding that after she started a shitstorm, she’d just bow out.

@Forum Admin, please be advised that either *somebody* is moderating my posts without cause, because they are NOT violating any rules–cussing isn’t against the rules, even if some people don’t like it, nor is blunt speech, or I’m just being moderated for no reason.

Regardless, I’ve already made it clear, if my posts don’t get seen here… they get seen on my blog. Facebook. Twitter.  With screenshots and the exact same text, because I’m done with this bullshit.

Also, something the trolls (and i suspect I know who) doing the flagging don’t get… people still get the message.  Flagging it only removes it from the board.  You can’t unsend it from somebody’s inbox once it’s there.​  If I’m right about that troll, BTW, you’re really going to make some people happy if you keep this up.  Instead of staying on a closed loop, it goes out into the wide world.

My original post & the screenshot.

First line unclear-menu bar in the way!

Speaking of which… @Allyson Charles… it’s cheap of you to start shit and dodge out.  Next time don’t start it if you can’t handle the clapback.

“The discussion, sadly, isn’t going anywhere positive that I can see.”

That’s because you’re wearing blinders.  People who aren’t as comfortable speaking up publicly have learned things. Marginalized people have seen your posts and know that plenty of us aren’t going to sit by and let ‘calls for civility’ drown out the demand for respect more and more of US insist our marginalized members are entitled to.

Every time somebody like you, Allyson, speaks up and says shit like you and it gets countered by allies, countered by marginalized people and the allies side with marginalized people over your “CIVILITY TRIUMPS ALL” bullshit, that’s positive.

And it’s been pointed out elsewhere, but you probably missed it.

How civil would you feel if you lived your entire life having to demand respect, if your entire existence was too often judged by the color of your skin or dismissed because you couldn’t see, or ignored because people were uncomfortable with your sexuality? If people felt they had the right to touch your hair because those crazy curls are so different than theirs, or if they cut you off in line at the store because you couldn’t move as fast in your wheelchair, if they laughed or stared at your when you and your SO were walking down the street OR if you were denied the chance to marry your SO, if you could be fired from your job for marrying somebody of the same sex? How civil would you feel if every time you walked into a store, the clerks eyed you sideways because they were certain you were going to steal? If people talked three times louder to you or like you were a toddler because they see you’re disabled and they assume that means you’re stupid? If you were denied a place to live because you and your same sex partner didn’t fit into the landlord’s religious ideals?

If you live a life constantly on the defensive, you’re not going to be very civil, and I can tell you that for a fact, because you respond badly here when you feel on the defensive and you’re the one who started this shitstorm.

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Shiloh Walker
I write stuff
Keep digging that hole…the dirt looks good on you.
www.shilohwalker.com
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EDIT/UPDATE… apparently, somebody really doesn’t like it when I post on the forums, because I had another post deleted/moderated/hidden. So… an update!

Second deleted post is below.

Message 2

Well, @Forum Admin, somebody deleted or flagged my post again, which is particularly shitty since it was calling out some hurtful commentary that Diane Farr made.  What’s even shittier is the fact that it appears Alexis Daria’s response to my post?  THAT LOOKS TO BE DELETED.

I’ve already made it clear in several places that if my posts get deleted/flagged/hidden, especially those where I’m speaking out to support marginalized members, I will post my responses and screenshots to my blog, where they get cross-posted to twitter and FB.  So…whoever flagged/deleted this one, you should reach out to @Diane Farr. I’m sure she appreciates it.

Original post below the screenshot (screenshot’s text is merely the text you’ll find below)

Oh.  Oh. Oh, Diane.

You and me are probably not going to be friends.  Understand now, this isn’t personal or an attack on you, although it might feel that way.  But, honey… you are short-sighted, misguided and all sorts of wrong.

“It is my sincere hope that once this sturm und drang subsides, he will be able to lead once again.”

The problem is that HE NEVER LED IN THE FIRST PLACE.  LEADERSHIP IS DOING WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE GROUP YOU ARE LEADING, NOT DIGGING YOUR HEELS IN OUT OF STUBBORNNESS.

Also…let’s not forget…

he lied about his qualifications  (THAT LIKELY COUNTS AS FRAUD.  WE ARE A LEGAL ENTITY)he lied to & about board members, some of those lies leading to one board member deciding not to run**he has lied about people he knows which has led to no small amount of embarassment for the organizationhe played fast and loose with the P&P, along with Carol Ritter, to establish this secret ethics committee that led to the censure of Courtney Milan that led to the fucking MESS we are inhe manipulated the outcome of the report from said unlawfully formed ethics committee, providing information to the then board that wasn’t entirely on the up and up–nobody has said it outright, but the bottom line is, a board as diverse as we had would not have acted to censure a woman of color for speaking out against RACISM. So Damon and Carol damn well manipulated shit to get the outcome they wanted.  And if I’m wrong, they are welcome to try and sue me for libel, but everybody knows they won’t do shit, because that is what happened.when confronated about his lack of qualifications for president, he attempted to offer a book that cannot be found.  The title STUD PLANET isn’t on goodreads, you can’t find Amazon reviews, there are no cached images on the internet archive.  It DOESN’T EXIST.  So not only did he lie about his qualifications to start, he attempted to LIE AGAIN

So.  All of that said… you want a man who commited fraud, who lied, who manipulated events to force a woman of color out of our organization to lead? Am I understanding you correctly?

It may be time to retire the RITAs. They have become increasingly weird and twisted, trying to conform to the wishes of our diverse membership and ending up pleasing no one. 

Oh. My. Goodness. CONFORM TO THE WISHES OF OUR DIVERSE MEMBERSHIP.  ARE YOU SHITTING ME?


ALL OUR MARGINALIZED MEMBERS WANT IS THE CHANCE TO BE JUDGED FAIRLY ON THEIR OWN FUCKING MERITS, DIANE!  What’s weird and twisted about wanting your book to judged fairly, based solely on the book?

Have you even talked to readers lately?  READERS JUST WANT GOOD BOOKS! Hell, NORA ROBERTS COMMENTED ON HOW PEOPLE CAN ACCEPT A VAMPIRE AND A HUMAN GETTING IT ON BUT NOT A SAME SEX COUPLE!!!!

Are you more inclined to accept a fricking werewolf and an ingenue than a black woman and a white man?

HOW IS THIS CONFORMING?

And I have to stop now before my blood pressure goes through the roof and I end up having a stroke and have to be put in the bed next to my grandmother.​​​

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Shiloh Walker
I write stuff
Keep digging that hole…the dirt looks good on you.
www.shilohwalker.com

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RWA…THEY DON’T LEARN

Someone posited the question on the forum, why is Damon Suede doing this?

I said because he’s a power hungry asshole & some are accepting it because they like the status quo.

My response was deleted.

So.

I’m posting again.

I want to know why my opinion on this was deleted.

I’ve got every right to call Damon Suede a power hungry asshole, AND state that some of the people involved like the status quo.

I’m a member in goid standing & I’ve got every right to call an ass an ass.

Guess I’m posting this to my blog.

My response as to why Damon Suede did this? IMO?

I want to know why my opinion on this was deleted.

I’ve got every right to call Damon Suede a power hungry asshole, AND state that some of the people involved like the status quo.

I’m a member in good standing & I’ve got every right to call an ass an ass.

Guess I’m posting this to my blog. Patricia, are you ok with my posting your question?

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To the Board-Do Your Job

Avon & Harlequin have pulled out as sponsors. 

I bet more will follow. 

50+ agents have publicly stated they’ll have nothing to do with nationals or other events. 

The RITAs (rightly) are in the tank this year & the whole conference may well follow, because if more sponsors pull out…well, that means no signings, no parties, etc.

The signings & events for librarians & bloggers are a major draw and THAT will go down the tank.

Pub parties are a big draw for pubbed authors, and THAT is disappearing.

So. Again…do y’all really think this is going to blow over?

It’s time for you, the board members,  to step up.

YOU, RIGHT NOW, HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO VOTE DAMON SUEDE OUT.

By all rights, it appears he doesn’t meet the qualifications TO BE OUR PRESIDENT, HAVING ONLY FOUR PUBBED NOVELS. 

He has acted RECKLESSLY, failed to respond to member concerns & been shown to have a history of LYING ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER INDUSTRY PEOPLE AND RWA MEMBERS TO FURTHER HIS OWN AGENDA.

These actions & lack of publishing qualifications give you EVERY right to vote him out & correct the course.

Note, it WILL BE CORRECTED, but what side will you take & how much worse will RWA continue to look to outside eyes?

We will not get agents back at our conference WITHOUT ACTION.

WE  WILL NOT GET PUBLISHERS BACK WITHOUT IT.

Workshop proposals are being withdrawn, so there’s ANOTHER draw that’s going, going…gone!

This will NOT blow over. Do the right thing for RWA, THE ONE THING THAT WILL ALLOW US TO START WINNING BACK TRUST FROM THE INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS WHO HAVE PULLED BACK BECAUSE OF YOUR CLEAR LACK OF ACTION. VOTE THE PRESIDENT OUT, AND the executive director.

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That time I contacted the Texas AG about RWA

FYI, that time was today.

Below is my letter. FYI, I’m fed up. I am done. Questions and emails mostly go ignored by the board. Yes, I get it, I’m one of thousands emailing them, but we don’t need a personal response. We need a professional one that addresses their serious screw-ups here.

When you do hear back you have people talking to you in condescending, how dare you tone… oh, honey, you’ve got no idea how much I’ll dare.

There are a couple of members, yes, who are working to keep in touch with us and make sure we know we’re being heard, but the people who caused the problems, namely Damon The Ass Suede? Nope.

But apparently he’s cool with calling people up and telling them them he plans to serve out his term despite

the fact that more than thirty chapters are now calling him to step downnumerous agencies have publicly stated they will not attend RWA events until there is a change in leadershipdespite the fact that over 1000 members are demanding his resignation

Damon, you’re an ass. I wonder how many chapter sessions you’ll be invited to after this, what with you fiddling while Rome burns, you cretin.

There are also rumors that RWA STAFF!!!!! hired a crisis management team and are hoping this will all blow over in a few months.

Like hell.

Oh, and check out this white-savior piece of shit cover on the latest RWR, RWA’s montly publication.

And to head off questions I’m too pissed to address, if there is somebody who doesn’t see the problem with this image… google the “white savior complex”.

Now, my letter.

To the staff, board and president:

So, like many of us have probably been doing, I’ve been digging into the legalities of nonprofits, etc. In Texas, nonprofits are investigated by the state attorney general.

I contacted his office via the online form.

Below is the letter I just sent to Carol, Damon & Co.

HelloI want to add my voice to the numerous other members calling to demand information on the certification process behind Damon Suede being allowed to 1) Run for president elect as it appears he has only four novel-length works, making him ineligible to run since the requirement is five published works of romance.2) Who approved his name on the ballot3) Any other information that would clear this mess up.Additionally, I’ve contacted the Texas State Attorney General ‘s office. They are in charge of investigating nonprofits within the state, including possible ethics violations.Due to:

Numerous complaints from our minority members that complaints from everything regarding overt racism & homophobia to ablism to not making our conference spaces accessible to all members, including those who require the assistance of wheelchairs and/or other mobility devices. the utter lack of communication coming from the offices of RWA and the president, and a lack of reassurance from the staff and ED that the recall petitions will be fairly and justly handled,   reports that members of staff might have been involved in encouraging an RWA member to file one of the initial complaints that led to thisreports that RWA funds are being used to hire a crisis management team by the staff in the hopes this will all blow overdue to questionable changes made to the P&P regarding the RITA contestdue to questionable changes made to the P&P that allowed the ED and then Pres-Elect to get involved in an ethics committee formation when they had no business due to the questionable formation of a secret ethics committeeand due to the overall lack of explanation, the lack of transparency when we were promised otherwise, your contemptuous responses and your utter arrogance in dealing with the very members who make it possible for you to have your jobs

I contacted the state attorney general’s office today via their online form, providing them with my contact info and requesting how to take action regarding my concerns surrounding certain members in RWA’s leadership, namely the executive director, former director now controller and president–Alison Kelly, Carol Ritter and Damon Suede.Screenshots provided below. The text reads as follows:

​There have been a few members of the board, namely via the RWA forums, who have attempted to at least make us aware they know we have concerns and that is appreciated.However, the complete silence coming from the president who bears much responsibility in this mess, as well as the executive director who must have been involved on some level, is complete and utter bullshit and I’m fed up and done waiting for answers.​–
Shiloh Walker
http://www.shilohwalker.com/website/

Text of the screen shot reads

“”I’d like to know the proper process for filing a complaint regarding a TX non-profit. I’m a member of the organization and there are serious concerns regarding actions of late. Questions by the membership to the board are going unanswered. Additionally, it would appear that by-laws regarding elected officials were ignored by ED, resulting in the election of somebody unqualified for his position.””

If anybody else wants to contact, the form is at https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/contact-us-online-form

Yes, I realize this could be a huge thing, but if we don’t do something, there might not BE much of an RWA left worth fighting for by the time the wannabe despots are done.​

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Resign En Masse? I wouldn’t

Sigh. My latest, latest letter to RWA. Keeping you all informed, but also posting these as I send because RWA isn’t answering anybody and I have no plans to see my voice lost in the void that has become the RWA leadership.

My letter, sent 1/4/2010 @ 9pm approx.

FYI, I do hope that somebody is reading and taking these emails to heart.  I suspect at least a few are, but considering that at least one board member, Ms. Szereto, is apparently helping to spread Damon Suede’s false narrative that RWA will flounder and fall without him, I just wanted to make a few things clear.

There are rumors going around that the board is considering resigning en masse so RWA goes into receivership.

First… if you want the romance community to look on in shock and horror as you burn your careers to the ground, well, I guess you can take that route.

Second…when you joined the board, you signed on with the understanding that your responsibility was to the membership…whether you got that memo or not.

Again, your responsibility lies with the membership, not to the president, or the ED or anybody else. The membership.

Resigning en masse could lead to the org going into receivership, and from my understanding, that doesn’t mean the organization will be dissolved, either. I suspect, with three million in assets, the courts would look at what the membership wants. And many of us authors would also likely to reach out to voices in positions of authority in the field and ask them to flex their voices, so to speak, as well.

However, resigning en masse simply to bring this about could likely be considered recklessness.

Yep. Recklessness.

And recklessness, along with willful misconduct, are two things that allow board members and directors of nonprofits to be sued personally.
Willful misconduct could involve, I’d think, shady tricks with the Code of Ethics, strongly encouraging somebody to file a bullshit ethics complaints.

I also believe that neglect of duties was a touchy area that opens board members up to liability.

If the staff of a nonprofit is engaged in misconduct and these actions are missed through a lack of oversight, then the board…well, you get the picture.

In the long run, it really would be to the benefit of everybody if Damon Suede resigned — or was removed by the vote of the sitting board members, as he really isn’t eligible, and anybody else involved in this bullshit mess also stepped down.

Because if you haven’t figured it out, we’re not letting you drag RWA down into the dirt on your way out. As always, BCC’d to a lawyer friend and yes, this will go up on the blog and the forum.  For transparency’s sake.

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Newest letter-two in one day

Just when you think shit can’t get any weirder within the so-called leadership at RWA.

Guess what? The president who would be king shouldn’t even be in his position.

Read on for the details.

Well.

Here we go.

To the members of the board

Yet more interesting information coming from twitter.  Damon Suede never should have been allowed to run for president-elect, much less now be president. Per his own website, he has only published four novels and several are actually under RWA’s length to be defined as such.

Per the bylaws, the works published must be novels, not novellas. Below is Damon’s backlist. I’ve bolded the works that are qualifying per RWA’s defintion of romance novel.

Horn Gate (2013. 24k)

Grown Men (30k)

Hot Head. (2011. 112021 words) 

Bad Idea (2013. No word count given)

Pent Up (2015. No wordcount given.)

Lickety Split (2017. 100585 words)

Therefore, I demand he removed immediately as having him ensconced as president is a violation of the bylaws, as clearly stated below.

Per the P&P manual, we have our definition on what constitutes a romance novel, by length. I bolded the needed text.

1.25. “Eligible Novel” means a work of Romance Fiction of more than 40,000 words (as determined by computer word count) that is or has been commercially available.    

RWA’s P&P

Per the bylaws: (I bolded the relevant text)

Section 11.2. Qualifications. In order to be eligible for a Board or Advisor position (whether elected or appointed), a candidate must: (1) have been a General member for a minimum of five years, with lapses in membership of less than 6 cumulative months; (2) not have a material conflict of interest that would disqualify the person from holding the intended office; (3) not have been found guilty of a Code of Ethics violation; (4) not be a publisher, acquiring editor, or agent who actively acquires romance fiction or actively offers representation to writers of romance fiction, as further described in RWA policy. An individual who has served a full trm as President is no longer eligible to run for or hold any Board or Advisor positions. Candidates for specific positions must also have the following qualifications:

RWA BYLAWS

11.2.1. President-Elect. Candidates for President-Elect must: (1) have been General members for a minimum of five consecutive years immediately preceding filing for office; (2) be the author or co-author of at least five published romance novels as defined in RWA policy; (3) have published or contracted to publish at least one romance novel, as defined in RWA policy, within the two years immediately preceding filing for office; and (4) must have completed one full year of Board service but cannot have more than six years of accumulated Board and Advisor service.

RWA BYLAWS

And yet, per Damon Suede’s website, he has only published four novels. There are a four short stories, but they do not count, nor do the novellas.
Damon Suede was not eligible to run for president-elect at the time he chose to do so, whether through his own ignorance or willful intent to deceive, therefore, he must be removed from office. Attempts to retroactively change the P&P or belaws, of course, will not change this fact.

As always, in the name of transparency, so both my readers and fellow authors know where I stand, I will be posting this letter, in its entirety, to my blog and the RWA forums and the letter has also been bcc’d to a lawyer friend.

My complaints and letters to RWA will not disappear quietly into the night.

SO. There we have it.

Yet more bullshit.

For those wanting more on this disgusting mess, make sure you read Claire Ryan’s blog, because she is keeping the details up to date on all the bullshit.

STOP THE PRESSES

So, I went to twitter to grab a link for the passage above and FOUND THIS BULLSHIT!

SO, naturally. I had to send another. fricking. letter.

This is a screenshot from twitter.

I have no idea who supplied it.

But this is pure, outright bullshit.A group of 9000 dues-paying members does not exist on the backs of two people, nor their staff.

Yes, the staff at RWA works hard.  However, they also work for the membership and if they fail to carry their duties and work FOR the membership and not their own agendas, then we do not want them.

WE CAN HIRE NEW STAFF. Would it be easy? No. But it can be done.

Nor do we need a president or board members who share or spread false information.

I DEMAND this information corrected.AND YES, it’s going on my damn blog. I was just putting the finishing touches on my last post when I found this, so it’s going to be a two-fer.

Also, I’ve taken the liberty of finding one of the attorneys who handles non-profits at Pillsbury’s Houston office and bcc’ing as well. If the attorney reading this is by chance the attorney who will be handling RWA’s audit, I feel they should be aware of the false narratives being spread by the board of directors. If the attorney isn’t the one involved, perhaps they could be kind enough to share the word if they know who is taking the case. There are a great many concerns from the members of RWA that are going unaddressed by anybody and we’re tired of it.

RWA belongs to THE ROMANCE WRITERS who form it.

— ​​
Shiloh Walker
http://www.shilohwalker.com/website/

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