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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Some People's Kids...

Apparently, some scam agent named Barbara Bauer got her knickers in a twist and managed to get the Absolute Write forums shut down. I'll defer to the wisdom of Miss Snark, Jackie Kessler, and EJ Knapp for this one. They've said it better than I ever could have.

7 Comments:

Blogger Jackie said...

Thanks for posting this, Heather. What Barbara Bauer did is unforgivable. Spread the word!

8:05 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for helping to spread the word! I've added you to the list of sites participating in the googlebombing.

8:51 AM  
Blogger Ewoh Nairb said...

I am so completely disgusted by this. How can people be so completely bad?

I'm having a hard time being zen about this... I just want to punch BB and the ISP folks in the face.

It is things like this that make me wish I wasn't an ethical hacker... but alas I refuse to don the black hat.

9:35 AM  
Blogger Erica Orloff said...

Heather:
I just found out that a woman I coached, ghostwrote a nonfiction proposal for, and then edited her revision of the proposal just got a BIG deal with a major publisher and I am THRILLED.

But I cannot even BEGIN to tell you how many (over my 15 years as a book doctor, ghostwriter etc.) broken authors have come to me having spent THOUSANDS of dollars on scam editors, scam agents, and pathetic ghostwriters. People are desperate to be published and they will just fall for anything sometimes. This woman is just AWFUL . . . and I hope she gets what's coming to her.

E

5:08 AM  
Blogger Heather Brewer said...

First off, Erica!!! That's fabulous news! Congrats to her!

Scam agents are the lowest of the low. Just a bunch of slimy, predatory lowlifes. And sadly, authors fall victim to them all of the time. Thank the gods for groups like Writer Beware and people like Ann Crispin and Victoria Sanders.

Fees=bad, people. I can't say it enough. And this Bauer woman! She has a lot of gall to try to stop agent discussion.

Reminds me of this girl I once knew. She was rather *ahem* friendly with the boys and flaunted it, then whined because people said she was easy. But honey, if you don't want people to say you're easy...don't screw around so much!

5:24 AM  
Blogger Jackie said...

Just remember folks: if it's true, it ain't libel.

More in the soap opera: It seems that the person who pulled the plug on AW -- thanks to screams from Barbara Bauer, Ph.D., one of Writer Beware's Twenty Worst Agents -- not only then relaunched her own competing writer's online community site -- she's also (according to one Writers Net person) married to the ISP dude behind the curtain.

Jeez.

Some good news: Miss Snark's rage knows no limits -- see her latest post about this. And Neil Gaiman has gotten in on the action as well.

7:59 AM  
Blogger Heather Brewer said...

Thanks for keeping us informed, Jax!

10:52 AM  

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