IGNORANCE SHOULD BE AGAINST THE LAW

I received a DM on Twitter today that I needed to check out the tweet of this person who has taken an “odd” liking to us over at RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB. So, I go and take a peek at the tweet and OMG, it’s supposed to be a blog post but it’s a BOOK! Seriously, it was so long it would have taken me over a month to read this post so I skimmed it (really, that’s all it was worth was just a skim).

This “person,” who we will call NAMELESS {because “IT” will get no attention riding on my coat tails}, has decided to tell the world that RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB is a sham. Initially, I was going to take what “IT” had said and touch on each point, bit by bit…but honestly, I skimmed it so fast and I was literally laughing so hard, that I didn’t retain much of my “skim.” Sorry 😦

A few members have read the blog post and they have reached out to me to find out what we can do about this slander of our wonderful club. I want everyone to calm down because although everything that NAMELESS put in “IT’S” blog about RRBC was FALSE, I am actually a great fact checker! And, that’s about to become unfortunate for NAMELESS.

Before I go any further, here’s a side note to NAMELESS:

LIBEL (RULES FOR BLOGGERS): You cannot publish on your blog untrue information about anyone or anything that could negatively affect that person or thing’s reputation. It doesn’t matter if you get no traffic to your blog. If you publish something false about a person or entity that could damage their reputation, you’ve committed LIBEL and could be in big trouble! If you can’t prove that the negative and potentially harmful information you publish on your public blog is in fact true, don’t publish it at all!

Going a little further, NAMELESS, I’m told, has accused RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB of two very important things which I WILL touch on:

1) “We encourage our members to ONLY post favorable reviews.” The Governing Board members of RRBC have collectively decided that ON OUR SITE we will only post reviews that are 3 star rated or greater. For those less than favorable reviews, we will send directly to the author as we are not here to embarrass anyone. We are here to help, support and uplift. IT IS CLEARLY SPELLED OUT on our FAQ page, that WE WILL NOT DICTATE what rating our members give member books in any other forum, Amazon included. Actually, we STRONGLY ENCOURAGE honesty in ALL reviews.

2) “We do review swapping.” Any member who has completed an application with RRBC and has made any mention of Review-Swapping on their application was immediately notified BEFORE their membership was processed that we are not in the business of Review-Swapping.

NAMELESS needs to become a better fact-checker before “IT” tries to build a following based on BLATANT UNTRUTHS and outlandish attacks on “people of great reputation.”

Now, are you ready for THE REAL FACTS? Let me lay them all out for you and after this, we, as in the Board Members of RRBC, will not mention, acknowledge or even breathe a typed word in the direction of NAMELESS. It is obvious, that “IT” is trying to garner 15 minutes of fame by trying to defame our wonderful, successful and flourishing club, but NAMELESS, your time is up.  And, you know what they say:  “Feed a stray dog and it never goes away.”  So to my members I also ask:  “Please don’t feed the animals.”

Fact: The blog post that NAMELESS wrote has been up for the better part of the day, if not longer, and in ALL that time it has been shared an extremely minimal number of times:  with Facebook (2), Twitter (3) and LinkedIn (1). I think NAMELESS is trying to build “IT’S” following by using our hashtag to get folks over to “IT’S” blog. But, seems it didn’t work. Probably because RRBC supportive members KNOW THE TRUTH AND KNOW WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT.

Fact: NAMELESS seems to be the dishonest party here as “IT” used every search tag imaginable on the blog post “IT” wrote on RRBC. Take a look at some of the search tags used (and don’t laugh): “Movies, J.K. Rowling, Google Play, KOBO, and could you tell me what TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER might have to do with us?” Once again, seems NAMELESS is trying every “trick” in the book to get traffic to “IT’S” blog.  NAMELESS, YOU ARE SHAMELESS!

Fact: NAMELESS has been on Twitter since 2009 and in 5 years “IT” has only 137 Followers? WOW! I’ve been on Twitter for a year and I have almost 3,400 Followers.

Fact: In “IT’S” blog post, NAMELESS mentioned something about how many reviews my book DAYDREAM’S DAUGHTER, NIGHTMARE’S FRIEND had. That book was published in November of 2013 and yes, already it has over 50 reviews! Yayyyyy me! It seems that NAMELESS has been busy publishing books, too and yet here are “IT’S” stats:

1) Book published in Dec. 2012 – 6 reviews
2) Book published in Dec. 2012 – 2 reviews
3) Book published in Mar 2005 – 4 reviews
4) Book published in Jan. 2003 – 3 reviews

So, maybe NAMELESS is upset that my book, along with a ton more of our member-author books has more reviews than “IT’S” books, and some of our books have only been out about 6 months or less? The oldest book published by NAMELESS was done so in 2003 yet has only 3 reviews! Maybe if NAMELESS spent more time trying to align with like-minded individuals like the ones we have at RRBC, or even trying to promote “IT’S” books, it would have more sales AND more honest reviews. One of the books has an Amazon ranking of 5,221,696 and another 4,347,634. I think NAMELESS needs to focus “IT’S” attention in another area and stop spending so much time on us.  And here is the best I can offer:  Why don’t you join that AWESOME, FANTABULOUS BOOK CLUB that everyone’s buzzing about?  You know the one that is extremely successful at PROFILING, PROMOTING & PROPELLING INDIE AUTHOR CAREERS?  We welcome you…but all this misbehaving will have to stop first! 🙂

Fact: I read on NAMELESS’ Amazon Author page that “IT” is a psychic AND receives messages of peace from Princess Diana.

Aside from extending an invitation for you to JOIN US at RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB, NEED I SAY MORE?

Another sidenote:  NAMELESS, my board members call me their FEARLESS LEADER…that is for a reason, my friend!  You are now dismissed.

 

“Funny how those who do NOTHING to help others spend so much time trying to hinder those who do”

~ Nonnie Jules

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