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I will admit to being a dishonest son of a bitch with no faith in humanity. However, arriving here with guns blazing gets you nowhere.
Many times in my life meetings like this one have resulted in good things for the other person. Just ask Adam Lowe and others.
So Mike Philbin called me a jingoist on SL and Matt agrees with him. Or rather, by his silence, he agrees with Mike.
According to the Houghton Mifflin online dictionary, a jingoist is as follows:
- One who vociferously supports one’s country, especially one who supports a belligerent foreign policy; a chauvinistic patriot.
ADJECTIVE:
- Of or relating to a chauvinistic patriot.
- Characterized by chauvinistic patriotism.
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Now, I am wondering how that definition he has given me applies to his complaint about my review. I see nothing chauvinist or militantly patriotic in my review of his book.
Hey, Mikie, please come over here and explain what you meant or acknowledge that you did not know what the word meant when you used it. Tell us what you REALLY REALLY THINK of my review
ON THE NATURE OF LORENZO’S THREATS TO BEAT ME TO DEATH
I stand just five feet tall.
Lorenzo, even if he is a short man, is still much taller than I am.
Yes, Lorenzo is a big brave man.
I am an old woman.
Lorenzo is a young male, which means he is a lot stronger than I am.
Yes, Lorenzo is a big brave man.
I am physically crippled by polio, have high blood pressure, a melanoma on my forehead, hearing problems due to age, cataracts, and a left side seizure disorder.
Lorenzo is healthy and young.
Yes, Lorenzo is a big brave man,
I rarely leave my apartment because I am in so much pain when I stand and walk.
Lorenzo has good strong legs.
Yes, Lorenzo is a big brave man.
I have an opinion, and that makes me an internet stalker
Lorenzo keeps threatening to have me prosecuted for internet stalking
Because Lorenzo is a big brave man
I don’t back down
Lorenzo feels forced to threaten my life.
Because Lorenzo is a big brave man.
Yes, Lorenzo is a big brave man who threatens crippled women old enough to be his mother because Lorenzo is a big brave man.
All young men who attempt to terrorize crippled old women are big brave men.
All young men who threaten to kill cripppled old women are big brave men.
All young men who try to have crippled old women arrested as internet stalkers are big brave men.
Because everyone knows that crippled old women are dangerous.
Because everyone knows that crippled old women are unstable.
Because everyone knows that crippled old women are something to be afraid of.
And that makes Lorenzo a big brave man.
He read my blog. In fact he reads it very thorougly. He knew I was worn out, and he waited for his chance to wear me out again with four fresh baiting threads and a host of threats, including the suggestion that he intended to beat me to death and that I am a sociopathic stalker who the cops will be arresting.
I’m not a credible physical threat to Larry. I don’t drive. I could not take the bus or train to New York without being in so much pain that I would be unable to move long before I arrived.
Larry, on the other hand, is a credible threat to me in the eyes of law enforcement.
He wants to say that he’s afraid the “old sociopathic stalker” gets her just deserves when he brings me up on charges.
Although how a crippled woman can make him so frightened that he has to file charges against her makes him seem like weenie.
Seem like a weenie?
Let me correct myself there.
DAGSTINE IS A WEENIE
You can’t have it both ways, Lorenzo.
Either I am so frightening to you that you will go to the cops about me allegedly stalking you
Or, you are such a big man that you want to intimidate a crippled woman by threatening to beat her to death and having no remorse afterward.
So which is it Lorenzo?
Which does your ego demand? My arrest or my death?
Guess what, Lorenzo …. I am convinced that you are afraid of me.
Under the state of Massachusetts stalking laws, if you should ever show up on my doorstep, I will be within my rights to shoot you.
And should you decide to make good on your threats, I would not hesitate to shoot you.
So TAKE this as a warning.
DON’T COME PHYSICALLY STALKING ME AS YOU CLAIM TO HAVE DONE TO RUSTY.
Dagstine left me the following private message. I did a screencap of it and then erased the sections in paint that might have given away the names of other folks who I have private messages from. No sense betraying folks to the enemy.
He started a thread on shocklines wishing me a happy birthday and then tried to make me look like the troll all these years.
And then he had the nerve to say that he forgave me.
Yes, he forgives me for his calling me a crack whore.
Dagstine forgives me for his calling me a stupid cripple.
Dagstine forgives me for his calling me a has been.
Dagstine forgives me for his saying I have an internet addiction
Dagstine forgives me for his threatening me repeatedly.
Dagstine forgives me for his sending me threatening PMs on both SL and my blogs over the years.
Dagstine forgives me for … well all kinds of stuff.
Dagstine is a better man than I am, because Dagstine has the true spirit of forgiveness…. He is willing to forgive me for defending myself.
Dagstine is willing to forgive me for refusing to back down whenever he starts another nasty rumor about me.
Dagstine is willing to forgive me for not being afraid of him.
Dagstine is willing to forgive me for being too tough for him to handle.
Dagstine is forgiving me for pointing out the … nah, he’s just a duplicitous sack of shit.
Matt posted a link to an article by Betsy Mitchell, a senior editor at Del Rey. None of them seemed to realize that Betsy has been an editor for close to thirty years and none of them seemed sufficiently awed. Dagstine has a response up that suggests he thinks his vast underground, reprint riddled, and unspecified sales are equivalent to what Betsy is talking about.
But let’s talk about the good points of this. A lot of authors ask why editors and agents want to be given lists of places the book is likely to sell to, and what groups of people might be the target of interest, and other selling points. This is why:
It helps them fill out a TI sheet or points to how it might be filled out. More and more in trying to sell to the majors, and some of the more upscale indies, TI sheets are crucial to convince the Sales and Marketing Departments that the book has a viable audience.
Jane Baxter has a confession to make 
Mymotherwasatrekkie had an interview with Dagstine up. I had decided to ignore it for the present because I am trying to get a couple of novels finished as well as work on some books I want to get launched next week.
However, a couple of interesting things about this blog were just pointed out to me.
1) there are only two posts on it. It is a brand new blog.
2) the person who has the blog claims to be returning to it after a long absence during which he deleted the blog.
Another thing that caught our eyes, is that author thanks people for their support, and then disables comments on both posts. If the support really existed, wouldn’t you expect him to allow people to show their support?
Another suspicious thing is that it is supposedly a blog about video games, so why are they running an interview with an author?
I received a lot of very good comments my previous post about Whispering Spirits.
I find myself agreeing with those who said that I was imposing too many limits upon myself, and expecting others to follow suit. Writing should not be about limits. By fencing myself in with my refusal to sell shorts to paying markets that Dagstine has sold to and continues to sell to, I have created my own little ghetto.
It might be a better ghetto than Dagstine’s (after all, I am primarily a novelist), but it remains a ghetto.
Just as I took my reprints to Associated Content, despite (or because of) Nicky’s presence there, I intend to feel free to sub my material to those paying markets that Dagstine sells to. I might even sub to the same anthology markets that Philbin does, but only if they are paying markets.
I say, “Let’s not fence ourselves in. Let’s show those markets how it is done.”
And even more to the point, let’s not condemn the publishers and editors for buying Dagstine’s stories. They are not the target. Instead, let’s sub stories to those paying markets and strut our stuff.
Whispering Spirits is run by Diana Cacy Hawkins.
I don’t know her well. But she has been kind enough to run stuff about me on her board.
I have known for months that she had published works by Dagstine, and I tried to ignore it.
Rusty’s post forced me to take a long hard look at it.
I can’t and won’t change my stance about not subbing material to a magazine that has stories in it by Dagstine. It would be a violation of my personal ethics. In the end, it is really irrelevant since I rarely write short fiction. I have only written a single short story in the past two years.
Dagstine singled me out for abuse long before I even knew that he existed.
Publishing Dagstine does not make Diana a bad person. I’m not going to fault her here, except to say that I think she could have found far better writers than he is.
I don’t have a clear course of action here.
My initial reaction at this point is to lunge into kamikaze mode and have every thing concerning me and mine removed from her board. But I’m going to try and restrain myself.
I’m going to take a day and think about it.
FOR BEING INAPPROPRIATELY STUPID.
Anyone except Philbin would know that the ad for Warburtons was in no way connected to the news item about Zimbabwe any more than it was with the other three news items on that list, which included financial news and sports.
Now, my grandfather was 85% deaf by the time I was 20. We got him headphones, but even then it still shook the house with how loud it needed to be.
Special headphones are not needed if you have proper hearing aids these days. Yet there is no mention of hearing aids, just his very expensive headphones.
I remain highly skeptical of Daggy’s claims. I’m 40% deaf in my right ear, but just fine in my left ear. That’s called unilateral deafness. And while that is nothing compared to 85%, it is still enough to make for a few problems. It cuts off the high end for me and makes male voices easy to understand and women’s more difficult. Yes, I have sexist hearing.
For some reason, Screengrab would not get it for me, so I resorted to old style screenshots and it took two of them. You will notice that his original version is different from the one he has up currently.
Doncha just love Philbin’s bullshit? Martial Law will be declared in the US tomorrow, starting in Los Angeles.
Get a grip, stupid. First off, you’re a Brit and you don’t know shit about the US or Americans. After all, by your own admissions you don’t know any Americans. You don’t know Dagstine. You don’t know Nicky. You don’t know whether that hole in your backward parts is an asshole or a vagina.
You probably urinate through your nostrils and poop between your fucking teeth — and then eat it afterwards.
