Fisticuffs At Dawn: Ann “I’m A Professional” Jacobs v JC Wilder
Apparently Ann Jacobs, EC author, has taken it upon herself to berate JC Wilder for daring to be critical of the EC cover models behaviour at RT.
Ann (on her blog) writes:
Sure, there were some possibly newsworthy happenings…the kinds of things that always draw the attention of vultures of the tabloid press and their readers alike. If you’re interested, you can learn all the dirty details, fully embellished, at blogs like smartbitches and JC Wilder’s to name just two.
Hey, I think she’s calling us readers and bloggers vultures. How do you like that? What gratitude.
Anyway, JC Wilder then puts up a post entitled, When Good Authors Go Bad:
As the stomach turns…
I have been removed from one of my publisher’s email list entirely. Once again, I’m pretty sure it was just me that was removed – but what about the other authors who work for other publishers? Chances are they weren’t booted…just little ole me.
The last instance of removing an author from their lists (without telling her by the way) was an author who complained about the publisher’s bad behavior. They too were removed from the lists without any contact from said publisher.
Now THAT is professionalism.
So basically the mods at EC booted her off their group list. Charming.
Anyway, this is a comment from Ann Jacobs in response to the above post:
My guess is, no other EC author who writes for more than one publisher has gone out of her way to diss the rest of us, our mutual publisher and the cover models who grace the covers of our EC books.
About professionalism: people who live in glass houses should be careful about throwing stones. If an author is displeased about something she feels reflects badly on herself as an author, she should take her concerns up with people who can do something about valid complaints. That would not be her fellow authors, blog readers or the world at large.
I get the feeling that Ann’s the type that would defend her publisher even if they were shafting her fellow authors blind. I’m really starting to intensely dislike those types.
I bet she’s the black-balling type too. From the tone of her e-mail, I’m pretty sure she’d be all for ostracising any of her fellow authors who she felt spoke out of turn.
And people wonder how the Madris DePastures and the Deb MacGillivrays of this world get away with treating their authors like crap.
From a reader’s point of view, I think Ann Jacob’s response reflects far worse on her, than JC Wilder’s, especially in light of the recent e-publishers behaving like fucktards episodes.
It seems to me that not only was Jacobs trying to gag Wilder, but the above response seemed a tad threatening too. A kind of ‘Behave, or else’ message.
She obviously learned those intimidation tactics from the higher ups at EC. Did I just say that out loud?
Thanks to you-know-who for the tip-off.
Posted by Karen Scott · 
pingback:
But you’ll notice that anyone pointing out something that might have detracted from the con, also talks about the good things, and they go back year after year. And they’ll be back next year. Most of the people who say they’re not going are the people who’ve never been, not those who’ve experienced the zaniness themselves!
