Steph Sinclair > Status Update

Steph Sinclair
added a status update
Guys, I cannot believe this, but I'm so angry right now. Occasionally, I write harsh reviews and I know it may be hard for an author to read it. But I have NEVER attacked an author in my reviews. Despite popular opinion I do not have a vendeta against anyone. But today I lost a lot of respect for the YA community when I recieved an email about an author calling me a "stupid cow" or a "toe rag" and a "bitch."
— Jan 04, 2012 07:58AM
301 likes · Like flag
Comments Showing 1-50 of 348 (348 new)

I am sorry to hear that you have to get through a situation like this one, and I am more sorry to see that the respect between writers and reviewers is starting to fall apart :(

Because she didn't like my review. And I'm not afraid to call her out on this, because it's unacceptable. I was going to continue reading her series because I thought she was a nice person. Imagine my surprise.






I agree with Ceilidh. Get hard evidence and bring it to light.

I received this email anonymously through someone's private profile. So I don't have any links, but I did notice yesterday that all the positive reviews on Amazon were mysteriously bumped up (even the ones that only have a few sentences) and all the negative ones bumped down. In addition, my review received a ton of 'NO' votes in a very short amount of time. The review hasn't even been up there that long.
I'm just so disgusted.

I love the part where she says she's not asking to dickie the system when that's E..."
I feel like reporting this to Amazon. She's screwing with the system. I can't help it if others felt the same way about her book!


...............................
Da fuck? Seriously, Leigh Fallon!?! My review was so much more scathing than yours and she's attacking you?
Your review was very thoughtful and insightful and had nothing against her at all! Seriously that woman needs to grow up.

There will always be the haters, rise above them.
Excuse me while I piss myself laughing.

Oh man, I just can't even comprehend the levels of stupid that have come out of that email.


CTRL then PrtSC.

Okay when you have it open, click print screen. Then open up an image program like paint, and save the image as a .jpeg. Then upload via photobucket or tiny image, or what have you. Get the URL for the image then open the box for here and type <*img src="image"*> and remove the stars and it should pop up.




I'm sorry you have to go through this, Stephanie. Thank goodness yours and Cait's review prevented me from buying her book.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x9...

Well, I went on and liked your review. Of course, I already liked your goodreads review.

Well, I went on and liked your review. Of course, I alre..."
Do you see how many "NOs" it's getting all of a sudden?

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x9..."
That's still small.
Use snipping tool. It's under accessories.

This behavior is absolutely atrocious and I'm glad you're naming and shaming. Please, if I ever behave like this as an author, one or all of you shoot me in the face. I cannot understand this kind of logic - where the fuck is the merit in fabricating the public's view of your book to sell more copies? How do these people sleep at night? What is success when it's built on trampling other people down, lying and cheating? This recent author behavior is disgusting and really, I feel sorry for OTHER authors in the genre who have the ability not to behave like chimpanzees in heat yet are being lumped in with these pathetic losers.
God, this is fucking disgusting. Stephanie, I am SO sorry you've had to face this bullshit and just hope Amazon will respond and bump your review back up to where it belongs, since that's clearly where everyone else who read it wanted it to be. Maybe these authors ought to be asking themselves why a negative review of their book received so many YES votes. Could it be - DARE I FUCKING SAY IT - people just don't like your book?

Poor Stephanie.
Someone should let her know that the system is the way it is for a reason. It's so long, you have to scroll for ages until you get to the good ones. usually says a lot in itself.

Well, I went on and liked your review. Of cou..."
Yes, and I saw some of the stupid, thoughtless two line reviews that are suddenly ranked above it.



The best you can do, Stephanie, is report what s/he's doing to Amazon, but they are notoriously on the side of positive reviews anyway. If you get solid proof you can pass it onto bookbloggers so they can make informed choices about whether or not to give this woman's trash any publicity.

Wow. And you know, I didn't even know those people. They just happened to agree...
Thank you everyone. This kind of drama makes me want to stop reviewing altogether sometimes.

Yeah, I thought so too. I can't get the darn image to blow up. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing.



It seems things are just hitting YA reviewers everyday now, huh?

Don't you dare stop reviewing. You're a part of this community and you fucking deserve to be. Don't let this display of completely pathetic and ridiculous behavior stop you doing what you love.

Authors, why? Why must you insult your readers? Why can't you just understand that we *want* to like you? Why don't you get it that just because we may hate your book, it does not mean we hate you?
It must be true that they fear us. I hate to name names, but this author vs. reviewer shit has gone way too far.
There is the stupid cow from Goodreads who has been real nasty and keeps doing up really bad reviews of Carrier, then gets her friends to go in and 'like' her bad reviews so that that review will be pushed up to the top of all the lists. Now she's put it up on Amazon! She is a disgruntled old cow who doesn't like me and how I got published. There's no point in saying anything about her or responding (she loves that) but what we can do is push her review back down the list by bringing all the good reviews back to the top. How do we do this? Well at the end of each review there is a little button where you can say whether you found the review helpful. Click YES on the good reviews. The more reviews you click YES you click on the good reviews the further down the list that bitch will go. If you leave a comment on the good reviews, that helps too. She's already got over 20 of her buds to YES her review so we will need to find more people than that to YES the good reviews. There are about 8 pages of reviews (that's about 7 reviews or something like that) so we can bury this horrible toe rag down the very bottom if you help me out.
As far as I'm aware, you don't have to have bought anything on Amazon to get your vote to count. You just need to be a registered user. It only takes about 5 mins to go through all the reviews and YES the good ones. I'm not asking to dickie with the system or anything, it's just moving a horrible review from the top spot. It's so long, you have to scroll for ages until you get to the good ones. I'd really appreciated it help on his. I'd also love if you could maybe gets some friends or family to do the same.
Thanks a million, guys. You're the best.
Leigh