Oh whoa! Whoa and ack and alas! *dramatic hand against forehead*

Romance drama at it's finest. Highland Press, and more specifically DeborahAnne MacGillvray, has been under attack recently for some of its more questionable, dubious policies. Such as banning authors from author loops for daring to speak their minds and making pithy demands when an author leaves the press and... dun dun dun, messing with the Amazon review functions!


The commentary that followed was generally sympathetic and outraged.



Warning: The following is all clumped into one paragraph and is very tl;dr. But enjoy the accusations!

Well, well, well - aren’t you posters just a bunch of hippocrites!! You are doing exactly what you are accusing Deborah MacGillivray of doing - being unprofessional and insulting. A few posters are feeding you their version of the truth and all of you are feeding right into their hands - without knowing what is truth and what is not. How easily you all are being manipulated. Do you know the story behind Reba’s reviews of Miss MacGillivray’s books and why she wrote what she did in that one post? Have any of you taken the time to find out the truth? There are a few women out there set out to destroy The Highland Press and Deborah MacGillivray. Why? They lost their contracts due to their own fault/unprofessional behavior and they refuse to take responsiblity for their actions. So, they distort the truth and they out and out lie. They take their garbage to anyone who will listen (ask yourselves why they aren’t spending time on their writing careers instead). These women are out to destroy careers because they weren’t adult enough to handle their own. And, all you posters fell right into their trap. There are always two sides to a story, yet these “authors” count on feeding their line of bull to anyone who will listen and everyone lapping it up without finding out the truth. Shame on all of you for buying into their crap. Deborah MacGillivray and Leanne Burroughs are nothing but the utmost professionals and these spiteful children in adult bodies could do a lot worse. What they don’t realize is how this will all come back to bite them one day - their vindictiveness and jealousy (we should all be so lucky as to have two NYC publishers) and outrageous behavior. I hope all of you can sleep at night after villifying one person based on the distortions of a few with a grudge.

I love it when authors (and/or their fans) go totally bugnuts insane.

Also, there is a comparison to Fandom, re: BNFs and big heads.

Edit: Forgot a link. Also, thank you to the Anonymouse who reported this.