COMING SOON: The Write Agenda’s Expose’ of Michael Capobianco

COMING SOON: The Write Agenda’s Expose’ of Michael Capobianco

BTW! Why isn’t Richard White listed as a contributor on Writer Beware now???

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Florida Literary Agency and Publisher Reaches Settlement on FDUTPA Litigation with Florida Attorney General

Robert Fletcher, CEO, Successfully Overcomes Damaging Allegations and Declares that Settlement is a Victory When Dealing with any Government Agency.

“Anytime a business settles litigation with a government agency with no admission of guilt and no violation of the law, it can be considered a victory,” said Robert Fletcher, the CEO of a group of companies that have been dealing with government litigation for over six years.

“Unfortunately, most consumers believe that litigation equals guilt, but that simply isn’t true.  This suit should never have been filed,” Mr. Fletcher continued. “If the litigation had any merit, they would have pushed it harder and not taken six years to deal with it.  Furthermore, the attorney who filed against us was asked to leave her job for ethical and competency issues.  Mr. Fletcher went on to say that, “settlement was the best action for our constituents as it allows us to concentrate on the future and not continue to pour money down the legal drain hole of America’s quasi-political legal process. Most importantly, we want our authors to realize that this litigation did not include our current businesses.  The suit was only directed at older companies that had a completely different business model and had already been dissolved”.

Mr. Fletcher concluded by looking to the future. “With this settlement, our family of authors and employees can rest assured that our business principles are sound and fair.  I am extremely happy for our authors, clients, and employees who have had to deal with the uncertainties of this misguided litigation for the last six years.  We have now formally put this behind us and we feel stronger than ever.  Let’s get back to business.  We have our clients’ books to publish and sell and distribute around the world.  And we would like any potential client that turned away from us because of this issue to please reconsider joining us.”

Therefore, the witch hunt perpetrated by Victoria Strauss, Ann “A.C.” Crispin, Writer Beware and the SFWA has been discredited; the The Florida Attorney General is NOT ACTIVELY collecting complaints and information.

So, the question is, will Robert Fletcher again pursue legal action against Victoria Strauss, SFWA, Writer Beware & others?

For further reading see:

Florida Attorney General Investigated by the Florida State Inspector General – Strategic Book Publishing Prepares Countersuits.

Florida State Inspector General’s Final Report 

ABSOLUTE WRONG (WRITE) BUSTED? You decide … Need more Kool-Aid?

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Those Pesky Legalities

In New York and in Washington State, it’s illegal to register a business under an assumed name unless you also register your assumed name as “doing business as” (DBA). You can review the regulations at New York’s Division of Corporations and Washington’s Business Licensing Services pages. This is important because, at the time of this writing, MacAllister Stone, owner of Absolute Write, lives in Washington State and has Absolute Write registered in New York. However, MacAllister Stone is not a real person. Her real name, Melodi Susanne Sherman, is not registered as a DBA of MacAllister Stone in either state. That makes Absolute Write, the business entity, illegal  [Emphasis added by The Write Agenda.].

I’m especially bothered by this for two reasons: I’m a fan of Writer Beware, and I don’t like that they’re unwilling to expose illegal or unethical behavior perpetrated by their friends; and it means I have to agree in part with The Write Agenda, whom I can’t stand [Emphasis added by The Write Agenda.].

Months ago, The Write Agenda (who doesn’t deserve a link; look them up if you’d like) posted about MacAllister Stone submitting a pseudonym and false address when Absolute Write was named in a lawsuit. I assumed it was a lie because TWA posted it. It was a slow day and I was curious, so I spent the afternoon poking around the Internet and public records. [Emphasis added by The Write Agenda.]. I [sic] didn’t take me long to locate a site called Forums Review, who seem to have an issue with Absolute Write as well, MacAllister Stone in particular. (In case you’re wondering, AW mods, no, I don’t have a connection with this site either. I tried to contact them through email because I didn’t want to have to create this blog, when they already had a perfectly serviceable one to which I could contribute. They never replied.) [Emphasis added by The Write Agenda.].The name Melodi Sherman was all I needed to find proof that she and MacAllister Stone are the same person. (Sorry to all those who were certain Lisa Spangenberg was MacAllister in disguise. Public records show otherwise.) It only took me two or three hours to track everything down. Why people think they can remain anonymous–to the point that they lie on legal documents!–is beyond me. [Emphasis added by The Write Agenda.].

Better Business Bureau listing for Absolute Write:

 

Melodi Sherman’s farrier business:

The phone numbers are the same.

Absolute Write’s address as listed in the WhoIs information visible on the Forums Reviewsite. To all the concern trolls or potential stalkers, this address is no longer her current address. It belonged to a ranch that Melodi managed, as shown below, and was sold several years ago. Don’t be asshats to the current owners, mkay?

The WhoIs information for LakeviewRanchRide.com, now defunct. Melodi is still using the username visible here, although the email address has changed.

Here’s an endurance ride from Lakeview, right before it closed. Melodi is the assistant manager and owner of the email used to register the domain.

Voter registration (public record) for Melodi, showing her birth date and old address.

One of MacAllister’s birthday celebrations on Absolute Write. Yes, the birthdays are a match.

Great. MacAllister is Melodi. Glad that’s cleared up.

I’d love to understand why Melodi thought her name was so secret that she committed perjury and fraud so she didn’t have to reveal it to anyone. I don’t plan to stalk or harass MacMelodi. Someone might, I suppose, but Lisa Spangenberg (real name) and Victoria Strauss (real name) seem to do just fine. They get pestered online, but people do that all the time even without knowing a real name.

This is speculation, but I would guess it’s because she doesn’t want to lose face in the Absolute Write community. She portrays herself as a publishing professional in order to reign over the forums. In reality, though, her only publishing credit is her thesis, a rather dense and unremarkable treatise on Stephen King.

In summary, Absolute Write and its owner, MacAllister Stone aka Melodi Sherman, are guilty of crimes the Bewares topic and Writer Beware regularly expose. Melodi has no grounds for mocking anyone on a high-profile industry forum that posts publishing advice. She’s barely qualified to edit other people’s work for money; an MFA from a state university doesn’t replace real-life experience (running a ranch and trimming horses’ hooves don’t count toward that experience). Worst of all, Melodi has committed perjury when providing false data to the New Jersey courts, and fraud when registering Absolute Write as a business entity.

I wish I hadn’t had to post this. I shouldn’t have to. Make it right, Absolute Write and Writer Beware. Or you’re as bad as the criminals you claim to oppose, and you’re hypocrites too.

FROM AN EMAIL TO THE WRITE AGENDA

Her name is Melodi Susanne Sherman. Here is the registrant information from an old webcache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oHEBFun1MZkJ:www.ip-adress.com/whois/macallisterstone.com+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

If you look up Melodi Sherman in the Washington State voter database, you’ll see the same address and her birthdate: http://usefulwork.com/cgi-bin/wavoterdb.cgi This is the same birthdate as MacAllister’s:http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=243391

Here is a website for Melodi Sherman’s farrier business: https://sites.google.com/site/bellinghamhorses/ The phone number is the official number for Absolute Write: http://www.bbb.org/upstate-new-york/business-reviews/writers-business/absolute-write-in-lake-stevens-wa-57106104/

REFERENCES

“Absolute Wrong.” : Those Pesky Legalities. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Dec. 2013. <http://absolutewrong.blogspot.com/2013/12/those-pesky-legalities.html>.

Victoria Strauss: Coming Out of Hibernation to Comment on The Write Agenda

Victoria Strauss came out of her self-imposed exile (briefly) to Tweet about who? Yes, you got it . . . The Write Agenda. Strauss, the literary midget, made a short appearance on Twitter to post the following (below) to an apparent “flying monkey” recruit (who appears to still be in high school and may be a member of VHEMT: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement see www.vhemt.org. VHEMT advocates: “Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth’s biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.”)

Victoria Strauss has ran her own “smear” site and campaign via Writer Beware.  Remember, it was The Write Agenda that exposed the scams perpetrated by Victoria Strauss and the Writer Beware Crew; which is more than sufficient for Strauss to loathe The Write Agenda.

You can’t “deny” that Victoria Strauss, A.C. Crispin & Writer Beware failed to report the publishing SCAM perpetrated by their own attorney. See John Steinbeck Family Defrauded by Writer Beware™ & SFWA Attorney: The 2007 Scam that Writer Beware™ Didn’t Report . . . Why?

You can’t “deny” that Victoria Strauss, A.C. Crispin & Writer Beware failed to prove that American Book Publishing was subject to a “police investigation.” Which leads one to believe that Strauss may have another hidden agenda. See American Book Publishing: No Case, No Criminal Contact & No Legal Action Taken.

You can’t “deny” the fact that Victoria Strauss and others were “non-vindicated” defendants in the Bauer vs. Glatzer case. See Bauer vs. Glatzer et. al. – Summary of Allegations Against the Named Defendants

You cannot “deny” that is was an embarrassment to have Victoria Strauss as a panelist at The 2013 ASJA Annual Writers Conference.

You cannot “deny” that Victoria Strauss should have been Disqualified from the First Annual Independent Blogger Awards: Questions of Eligibility Remain Regarding the Meaning of “Independent”

RECENT POSTS FROM THE WRITE AGENDA

• Steven Gould, SFWA President, Unable to Produce Double-secret “SFWA Confidentiality Rules”
• Catherynne M. Valente, SFWA’s Eastern Regional Director Resigns After 4 DAYS IN OFFICE!
• Former SFWA Attorney: Charles E. Petit . . . License loss should not be end of story
• Former SWFA Attorney: Charles E. Petit . . . Suspension urged for Urbana lawyer who defrauded client
• Former SFWA Attorney: Charles E. Petit . . . Loss of Law License
• Former SFWA Attorney: Charles E. Petit . . . The Complaint
• Why Were Contributors to the SFWA Bulletin Not Paid?
• The Write Agenda’s Top 10 Posts
• SFWA President, Steven Gould . . . How He Treated a SFWA Member Before He Was in Office
• SFWA President, Please Start Acting Like a “President” . . . What confidentiality rules?
• Victoria Strauss Taking a (Brief) Temporary Hiatus to Complete her Next Major Literary Flop
• Have you recently quit the SFWA? Contact Us ASAP . . . 36 Quit; The Exodus is Here!
• Theodore Beale Comments on SWFA Strife: Trying to pull Pournell’s strings
• Mary Robinette Kowal: Proof that the SFWA Membership is Eroding
• The new “face” of the SFWA . . . can he live up to the legacy of John Scalzi? Pretty simple . . . just do nothing and be derelict in your duties.
• T.W.A.N.G. (and others) Project . . . Project Ambrose Persimmon
• Yeh, Jim (Hines) . . . this is the before and after pictures of Ann “A.C.” Crispin. What’s your problem?
• Thank You All For Your Support! . . . It’s Been Fun
• Victoria Strauss is Writing a Sequel to Passion Blew? Seriously?
• Atlanta Nights: The Movie . . . What Still No Funding?

The Write Agenda will be releasing a sequel to Passion Blew!: Scamming the John Steinbeck Estate: The Case Against Attorney Charles E. Petit The Former Attorney for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and Passion Blew II: The Case Against Victoria Strauss, Ann “A.C.” Crispin, Writer Beware & Others  . . . it will be titledKolorsong; to be released during 2013.

Victoria Strauss Taking a (Brief) Temporary Hiatus to Complete her Next Major Literary Flop

“Nobody who’s never sold jack is going to be put under a deadline for anything.”

Anonymous

Have you heard? Literary midget, Victoria Stauss, has a “book deadline” and has gone into a self-imposed exile.  Yes, it’s true! Strauss is in a mad rush to put the finishing touches on the sequel to her 2012 release Passion Blue. Passion Blue is currently ranked at 1,191,540 on Amazon; not exactly a best seller. The sequel is titled Colorsong.

Sequel . . . to what? Victoria Stauss, in her “career” as an author, has neither produced any book to validate herself, nor is there any evidence to take her seriously as an “author.” For example see the current rankings of Struass’ books below:

The Arm of the Stone (Paperback) Sales Rank: 3,385,246

The Awakened City (Hardcover) Sales Rank: 2,243,402

The Burning Land (Mass Market Paperback) Sales Rank: 2,045,976

The Garden of the Stone (Paperback) Sales Rank: 3,448,801

Passion Blue (Hardcover) Sales Rank: 1,191,540

Again, sequel . . . to what? What exactly is it that drives people like Victoria Strauss to produce literary failure after literary failure? Colorsong . . . it’s an interesting title for an author that has only used shades of gray on her watchdog canvas and leaving truthfulness always in question. Victoria Strauss, Ann “A.C.” Crispin and Writer Beware do like to sing a lot. However, the “color” of their song never reaches into anything near to black & white.

“Nobody who’s never sold jack is going to be put under a deadline for anything.”

Anonymous

Amazon Rankings

Rank	Copies Sold/day
1	3000
10	650
100	100
1000	13
10,000	2.2 (11 copies every 5 days)
100,000	0.2 (1 copy every 5 days)
1,000,000	0.006 (3 copies every 500 days)
2,000,000	0.0001 (1 copy every 1000 days)

– – – – – – –

The Write Agenda will be releasing a sequel to Passion Blew!: Scamming the John Steinbeck Estate: The Case Against Attorney Charles E. Petit The Former Attorney for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and Passion Blew II: The Case Against Victoria Strauss, Ann “A.C.” Crispin, Writer Beware & Others  . . . it will be titled Kolorsong; to be released during 2013.

REFERENCE

http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2013/07/writer-beware-blog-on-brief-temporary.html

ALERT: John Steinbeck Family Defrauded by Writer Beware™ & SFWA Attorney: The 2007 Scam that Writer Beware™ Didn’t Report . . . Why?

Posted 10/24/11: American Book Publishing: No Case, No Criminal Contact & No Legal Action Taken

 PROPAGANDA ALERT: American Book Publishing “Investigation” Research Released: No Proof of Victoria Strauss’ Claims

Victoria Strauss Reaches 666 Facebook Fans: The Satanic Association is Worth Noting

Victoria Strauss Critical of Indie Authors Successes: The Voice of Envy

Christian Story Teller Asks: “Victoria Strauss, what is she doing to her reputation?”

Victoria Strauss Drops F-Bomb . . . Again: The F****** Lack of Class Continues

Bauer vs. Glatzer et. al. – Summary of Allegations Against the Named Defendants

The Price of Loyalty to Crispin, Macdonald & Strauss: Participating in Propaganda Leads to Low Amazon Sales Rankings

21 Reasons to Not Trust Victoria Strauss

Ann Crispin: “The Write Agenda . . . It’s a Hate Site . . . ” Weinerdogs Convey Their Vileness to Recent Walt Disney Inquiry

Victoria Strauss Drops F-Bomb, Ann “A.C.”Crispin Thinks it’s OK: How Publishing Watchdogs Demonstrate Their Arrogance and Supremacy for Standards

Victoria Strauss: The Anthony Weiner Scandal is a BS Story; Weinerdog Still Shows no Compunction for the Truth

The Video: Amherst Nights: An Animated Interview with Victoria Strauss

Victoria Strauss Goes from “Watchdog” to “Weinerdog” – How the Selective Use of Research Material Can Damage Your Reputation: Victoria Strauss Cites another Police Investigation Regarding a Publisher . . . This Time it’s Correct and TRUE!

American Book Publishing “Investigation” Research Released: No Proof of Victoria Strauss’ Claims

A Note to New Authors . . . is Victoria Strauss Lying?

Victoria Strauss, Throwing Stones from a Glass House?

Letter to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America

Victoria Strauss, Running From Demons . . .

Victoria Strauss Continues to Evade Questions Regarding “Investigation”

Pressure on Victoria Strauss to Address “Investigation” Continues

Searching the “Elsewheres” – The Strauss Paradox: How the Validation of the Author has Changed

UPDATED: April 4, 2011 – Boycott & Petition, Victoria Strauss’ Books: Request to Reveal Evidence of “Investigation”

What was Victoria’s Motivation? Missing Pieces to the Puzzle

Victoria Strauss Titles, Current & Lifetime Amazon Sales Rankings

Update – April 21, 2011: Victoria Strauss Claims Amazon Rankings Are Not A Reliable Sales Indicator

Updated, April 21, 2011 – American Book Publishing, “Police Investigation” Victoria Strauss Fairy Tale?

COMING SOON: American Book Publishing, Was There a “Police Investigation” or is this a Victoria Strauss Fairy Tale?

Writer Beware: Who’s not minding the forum? Boobs, Bras & Panties?

Have you recently quit the SFWA? Contact Us ASAP . . . 36 Quit; The Exodus is Here!

“”Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.”

– Benjamin Franklin

 

If you are one of the “36 people” that  have quit the SWFA or if you’ve decided not to renew your membership . . . please feel free to contact us here with your story or with any information that you would like to share. The contents of your responses will remain anonymous, and your confidentiality will be protected under the highest standards of research ethics.

The Write Agenda is pleased to see this erosion beginning within the SFWA. It’s a sign that members of the SFWA are beginning to wake up and realize that the SFWA’s leadership (including Writer Beware, Victoria Strauss, John Scalzi and Ann “A.C.” Crispin and now status quo President, Steven Gould) have  engaged in promoting “dissension and dissatisfaction throughout the organization with their inept activist leadership.”

 

RECENT POSTINGS FROM THE WRITE AGENDA

• Theodore Beale Comments on SWFA Strife: Trying to pull Pournell’s strings
• Mary Robinette Kowal: Proof that the SFWA Membership is Eroding
• The new “face” of the SFWA . . . can he live up to the legacy of John Scalzi? Pretty simple . . . just do nothing and be derelict in your duties.
• T.W.A.N.G. (and others) Project . . . Project Ambrose Persimmon
• Yeh, Jim (Hines) . . . this is the before and after pictures of Ann “A.C.” Crispin. What’s your problem?
• Thank You All For Your Support! . . . It’s Been Fun
• Victoria Strauss is Writing a Sequel to Passion Blew? Seriously?
• Atlanta Nights: The Movie . . . What Still No Funding?
• Macallister Stone or Lisa L. Spangenberg?
• Victoria Strauss . . . Book Sales Records Updated
• STGRB The Blog That Shall Not Be Named: Taking a Stand Against Bullies
• Tom Dark: Stirring up Victoria Strauss et al . . . He’s Really Not “Crazy”
• Protected: Victoria Strauss . . . New Info (T.W.A.N.G. ONLY)
• Protected: Jim Hines (T.W.A.N.G. ONLY)
• Protected: New P.N. Elrod Information . . . T.W.A.N.G ONLY . . . You will love this!
• In this Torah portion, in Honor of Miriam the Prophetess
• The Kirkus Star Cost: $425 – $575 . . . We should all be proud of Author, Victoria Strauss
• Analysis of the 2013 SFWA Presidential Election & Voting Patterns Coming Soon!
• SFWA’s Scalzi . . . More Shit Left Behind on His Exit: Editor of SFWA Bulletin Resigns
• SFWA: The Reign of President Steven Gould has Begun.

 

The Write Agenda will be releasing a sequel to Passion Blew!: Scamming the John Steinbeck Estate: The Case Against Attorney Charles E. Petit The Former Attorney for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and Passion Blew II: The Case Against Victoria Strauss, Ann “A.C.” Crispin, Writer Beware & Others  . . . it will be titled Kolorsong; to be released during 2013.

 

Theodore Beale Comments on SWFA Strife: Trying to pull Pournell’s strings

“[I]f 36 people have really quit  [the SWFA] of late, then obviously the responsibility lies with those who have actively sown dissension and dissatisfaction throughout the organization with their inept activist leadership rather than the so-called “rabid weasels” who have been there for years, if not decades.”

– Theodore Beale

See posting at: Trying to pull Pournell’s strings

 

REFERENCE

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-never-will-be-attacks-jerry-pournelle.html

 

The Write Agenda will be releasing a sequel to Passion Blew!: Scamming the John Steinbeck Estate: The Case Against Attorney Charles E. Petit The Former Attorney for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and Passion Blew II: The Case Against Victoria Strauss, Ann “A.C.” Crispin, Writer Beware & Others  . . . it will be titledKolorsong; to be released during 2013.

Mary Robinette Kowal: Proof that the SFWA Membership is Eroding

Mary Robinette Kowal: Proof that the SFWA Membership is Eroding

See the following link:

Dear Twelve Rabid Weasels of SFWA, please shut the fuck up.

How ironic that she never told Robin Wayne Bailey to shut the fuck up?

“I do it for power and popularity. It’s all about the power. And the popularity. Really. It used to be about fame, fortune and free sex.”

– Robin Wayne Bailey

Noteworthy Link from Vox Day (Click Here).

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-convention-policy.html

See:

Volunteer for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America: It’s Not About Free Sex Anymore!

and

When the Facts are Not on Your Side, Edit it: How Teresa Nielsen Hayden Manipulates the Truth

Other Relative Postings from The Write Agenda

• Have you recently quit the SFWA? Contact Us ASAP . . . 36 Quit; The Exodus is Here!
• Theodore Beale Comments on SWFA Strife: Trying to pull Pournell’s strings

REFERENCES

http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/dear-twelve-rabid-weasels-of-sfwa-please-shut-the-fuck-up/

https://thewriteagenda.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/when-the-facts-are-not-on-your-side-edit-it-how-teresa-nielsen-hayden-manipulates-the-truth/

https://thewriteagenda.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/volunteer-for-the-science-fiction-fantasy-writers-of-america-its-not-about-free-sex-anymore/

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-convention-policy.html

Tom Dark: Stirring up Victoria Strauss et al . . . He’s Really Not “Crazy”

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Mahatma Gandhi

If you follow Writer Beware, Absolute Write etc., you’ll notice that Tom Dark has  quite a flurry of activity going on. Many of the recent postings have caused some people, like  Lisa L. Spangenberg, to launch into “protection” and “salvation” mode; otherwise, they would just ignore Tom Dark  . . .  they’re not.

Dark, in a couple of very astute Twitter postings, has pointed out a couple of the shortcomings of Victoria Strauss, her followers and other like-kind sites. They attack, criticise, call you names (i.e. “crazy”) and defuse . . .  yet, they never respond to the claims against them. For example:

You can’t “deny” that Victoria Strauss, A.C. Crispin & Writer Beware failed to report the publishing SCAM perpetrated by their own attorney. See John Steinbeck Family Defrauded by Writer Beware™ & SFWA Attorney: The 2007 Scam that Writer Beware™ Didn’t Report . . . Why?

You can’t “deny” that Victoria Strauss, A.C. Crispin & Writer Beware failed to prove that American Book Publishing was subject to a “police investigation.” Which leads one to believe that Strauss may have another hidden agenda. See American Book Publishing: No Case, No Criminal Contact & No Legal Action Taken.

You can’t “deny” the fact that Victoria Strauss and others were “non-vindicated” defendants in the Bauer vs. Glatzer case. See Bauer vs. Glatzer et. al. – Summary of Allegations Against the Named Defendants

“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”

C. Northcote Parkinson 

2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: Theodore Beale Nails the BIG ONE! . . . Move Over Scalzi, Hines & Making Light

[Theodore Beale’s blog posting today. Once again, Beale has demonstrated that he is a real force to be reckoned with and why Scalzi, Strauss, Hines, Nielsen-Hayden & others fear him. Well done “Theo” . . .  Well done. Interesting that the statistics have increased during the 2013 SFWA Election – The Write Agenda]

WEDNESDAY, MAY 01, 2013

The One Million month

Thanks very much to everyone who visited here in April, especially those who took the time to get involved in the various discussions in the comments.  I remember scoffing when ten years ago a reader predicted that this blog would one day have a million pageviews in a year, so it seems incredible to me that VP and AG now see that level of traffic in a single month.  

With a few notable exceptions, most blogs hide their traffic reports these days, but I think this is a tactical blunder.  The primary problem with doing so is that it allows the Left to dishonestly attempt to marginalize right-wing blogs in the eyes of others.  Recall that I have been portrayed for ten years as an extremist whack-job whose writing no one read even as the readership steadily grown, and I was regularly reminded that PZ Myers, John Scalzi, and a number of other left-wing bloggers all had much bigger blog readerships than I did… until it was revealed late last year that the traffic here alone, (never mind that of the  WND columns that those bloggers were reading and attacking), had passed up some of those blogs almost two years ago!  Never forget, the Left is heavily dependent upon lies, and one of their biggest lies, perhaps the one to which they resort the most readily, concerns their pretense that their opinions enjoy much more popularity than they actually do.  Therefore, the more metrics that are visible to everyone, the less they can get away with it.

That is why I make my Sitemeter and Google Analytics statistics public.  (VP uses the old template, which is why there is no monthly traffic widget in the sidebar as is the case with AG.) That’s why I’ve begun a quarterly Top 10 Game blogs report that I expect to expand to a Top 25 report in the second quarter. That’s why I encourage everyone who is in any way sympathetic to the neoreactionary traditional Relightenment to be open and public with their statistics. The truth is on our side. Victory through data!

Let’s face it, it is very difficult for the rabbits of Whatever to continue to claim that the Chief Gamma Rabbit of their warren is a vastly influential individual, and their sick transcis-quax-gendered view of human intersexual relations is the mainstream perspective, when everyone now realizes that Whatever has only two-thirds the traffic of my blogs and one-quarter that of the Great Prophet of the Crimson Arts.  Open metrics make it clear that it is the influential Cathedralites such as Jim Hines (Alexa Rank 729,110) and Making Light (375,254), who are actually the marginal ones. Despite their artificially elevated positions in the field of SF/F, they cannot maintain sizable blog readerships, not even with the benefit of occasional puffing by their ideological allies in the mainstream media.  They may be big fish, but they are big fish in a much smaller pond than the ocean they attempt to claim.

It’s not that their opinions aren’t relevant or that no one shares them, it is merely that their perspective is nowhere nearly as dominant as they are desperate to have you believe.  They can run from debate and they can refuse to permit substantive criticism or even a semblance of genuine discourse on their sites, but the one thing they cannot avoid is the harsh light of statistical reality exposing their pretenses.

It is ludicrous to imagine that it is popular writers such as Sarah Hoyt and Larry Correia who are the societal outsiders when their influence is an order of magnitude or more larger than most of the supposed “big names” in modern SF/F.   Sure, the Cathredralites sell more books, for the time being, because their capture of the genre’s gatekeepers means they have access to its media and distribution channels. But what we are seeing now is the early stages of a Fox News-style transformation in the SF/F industry, as new media outlets and new transmission channels is in the process of seriously upending the tilted playing field.  The cultural battle in SF/F isn’t over, as the self-appointed winners would have you believe, the heavy cavalry is just beginning to enter the field and the unarmored footmen without shields are quaking.

However, the fact that the Left is wrong about equality, wrong about economics, wrong about the past, and wrong about the future does not mean there is nothing that we of the Right cannot learn from them.  The one thing the Left does very, very well is the force-multiplication of its various assets, no matter how small and insignificant they truly are, and that is something that the neoreactionary Right will have to learn in order to mitigate the damage our progressive counterparts have inflicted upon us and upon themselves.  That’s why I’ve created the Standout Authors and Friends of Narnia, and I encourage other writers and bloggers of the Right to devote at least some effort to building up others of the Right even as they continue to pursue their own diverse and independent ambitions.

Consider that Prospect Magazine declared the top World Thinkers of 2013 on the basis of 10,000 votes.  10,000 votes!   That’s nothing, and yet the Left will gravely – and absurdly – pretend, on that basis, that Richard Dawkins is widely considered to be the greatest intellectual of our time.

We can do better. We should do better. We will do better.

REFERENCE

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-one-million-month.html

• THE 2013 SFWA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: HYPOCRISY, HERESY & HATE (PART IV)
• Theodore Beale Starting to Look “Presidential”: How Not to be SFWA President
• THE 2013 SFWA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: HYPOCRISY, HERESY & HATE (PART III)
• THE 2013 SFWA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: HYPOCRISY, HERESY & HATE (PART II)
• THE 2013 SFWA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: HYPOCRISY, HERESY & HATE (PART I)
• 2013 SFWA Presidential Election: Change or Status Quo?
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: The John Scalzi Book Tour 2013 . . . Show Up and Remind Scalzi of How He Pimped Out the SFWA
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: Latest Beale & Gould Blog Postings
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: Our Endorsement for SFWA President . . .
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: Apology to The Write Agenda™ From Author, Jim Hines
• Theodore Beale Still Looking “Presidential”: How Not to be SFWA President II
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: #StevenGould . . . Ur Doin’ It Wrong
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: And they think that Theodore Beale is a Pig? ROTFL . . . OMG
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: UPDATE
• More Embarrassment for Outgoing SFWA President John Scalzi
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: The Scalzi Legacy . . . What a Moron!
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: April 26, 2013 – Deadline to Vote
• The Write Agenda Calls Out The ASJA (Guest Post)
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: You Have to Love Theodore Beale . . . Speaking the Truth
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: How Not to Gracefully Exit as a SFWA President
• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: April 26, 2013 – Deadline to Vote