Obviously no way to be sure, but the author's fake account volunteering to run the FB group a mere month after the announcement makes me think there's a good chance there was no attempt and the whole thing was orchestrated from the beginning.
Oh, was it that quick? I missed that.
I think she joined within a month, but didn't necessarily make a move to help run it for a while.
The only surprising thing about this story is that it wasn't a YA author doing it.
Something Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind something Profit!
Even if it wasn't a deliberate fraud, it's still asking too much to come back with "not dead, jk" and expect people to accept you.
This kind of story always reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode in which Bobby Brady pretends to be dying so that he can meet Joe Namath. Broadway Joe's reaction to finding out that he was tricked, still seems like the right response, "Well, Bobby, I'm glad that you're not dying."
(it's possible this quote is inaccurate)
I was never able to watch the one where Marsha had two dates at the same time.
That is a strange story.
BTW - saying 'suicide attempt' or 'attempted suicide' is OK language to use. (Though don't classify suicide attempts as successful or unsuccessful or a failed attempt, which implies that dying is the preferred outcome.)
We only had the one tv and 4 channels. There were lots of times nothing else was on.
This is absolutely heartless treatment of George Santos' mother
12: Kids these days have no idea how rough we had it.
3: Oh, you're right - the first post in the Twitter thread of Facebook screenshots with her assistant promoting her "posthumous" book is Oct 2020, then when the same person asks for someone else to take over the group, that's Nov 2022.
When we finally got cable in town, one guy would tease the rural kids saying "What's on UHF tonight?"
Given how easy it is to fake your death in an online community, it seems like it would be more common. I guess I'm remembering how much Tom Sawyer enjoys watching his own funeral.
17: Who knows how often it happens & is successful so there are no opportunities for it to go viral?
Because of horrible sitcoms, people my age know enough to fake our own deaths without coming back to say "hello."
It's the coming back that really makes this a wtf story. She seems like a very weird person.
She also appears to be a terrible writer.
So, having now read the link in 22, I'd like to retract 23.
22 is honestly one of the weirdest part of this whole saga. Sorry to be all gatekeepy, but she wrote whole books like that?
26: I just looked at a first-page preview on Amazon. It was bad writing, but not to that level; it met basic standards.
I like how she's self-aware enough to say that she can't yet be called an author. I'm not quite sure what she's aware of, but it could account for a lot of editing.
Yeah, she's not like totally clueless, which makes her behavior even weirder, really.
"It's the coming back that really makes this a wtf story"
I have really got some issues with this new translation of 1 Corinthians.
Apparently the indie yarn-dying community sees this a lot, because popular individuals take on too many commissions and get overwhelmed/guilty.
To those who donated I would again stress this wasn't demanded of them. I'm sorry they feel wronged but they chose to DONATE. It doesn't magically become a loan because they regret it now. And WHY do they? Because an Author told a Story? The only difference now vs before is I'm alive. They'd rather I be dead? Then they'd be happy about donating? That's what it seems like they're saying, they're cruelly wishing death on me.
She really needs to run for Congress as a Republican.
31: that's hilarious. But the knitting community doesn't seem as credulous as the romance writers