WrathOfTinyKittens Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 The blog post is epic. With my three children in the pictures and my wife taking the pictures, why in the world would any rational person claim their fakes? Why in the world would anyone believe such a thing? What a wonderful author he must be! I love how his writing is free from casual errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I'm so much more convinced now that he's photoshopped in an additional coffee cup and some random garbage in front of him on the table I know, that is particularly awesome. Way to support your case! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Salt and Rock Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Shame on me for writing such beloved, best-selling books! Good god... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voland Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I'm so much more convinced now that he's photoshopped in an additional coffee cup and some random garbage in front of him on the table If he's such a huge fan of Brian Jacques why has he dumped a bunch of litter on the table while getting his book signed? Well, to be fair, it's not the same picture (look at Brian Jacques). It's feasible that they could have removed the litter between taking the pictures. His legs still look weird though, but that could be the angle and the light. I can kinda see his legs in the first picture now. However, it's kinda funny how he implies that Jacques, and other authors, visited his hometown because of him... From 2005 - 2006, Brian Jacques and Terry Brooks were two of five popular authors who had book tour stops in Olympia, Washington. Do you think it was a coincidence that they visited my hometown? No, it wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prone_to_say_stupid_things Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Stanek’s blog rant is very similar to this thread in his “Message Board”: http://ruinmist.hmm.com/index.cgi?ac...1159&page=1 Except for the Sparhawk guy, who appears to be a real (but rather unhinged) person from Bulgaria, all the others postings were written by Stanek. This has probably been discussed here before, but if one actually reads some of these “discussion” threads it becomes quite obvious that this is just a ploy by Stanek to pretend that he actually has a fan base (perhaps in hope of getting notice from a real publisher for his fiction efforts). Stanek built up these hundreds of pithy posts over the years by logging in once every other week under one his alt accounts (and then he replies to a few of his previous posts). However, he hasn’t been putting much energy into his board lately. There have only been 10 new postings since last June. Stanek has probably been busy writing new Microsoft Press books (which are published under his real name William R. Stanek). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Do I spot a veiled threat to Werthead at the bottom of that thread? I am constantly amazed that Amazon allow him to get away with what is pretty much fraud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max the Mostly Mediocre Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Wait, Stanek has had 100 books published? Seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteHaven Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Do I spot a veiled threat to Werthead at the bottom of that thread? I am constantly amazed that Amazon allow him to get away with what is pretty much fraud. Ya well, Amazon would do the same for you, if you were willing to pay those bastards. @Max: It seems so. Horrible, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prone_to_say_stupid_things Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Wait, Stanek has had 100 books published? Seriously? Stanek may have published 100 books, but it is not very impressive if you look at the details. He has written a lot of computer books under his real name William R. Stanek: http://www.amazon.com/William-R.-Stanek/e/...S/ref=sr_tc_2_0 And it should be easy to publish a lot of books if you are happen to be your own publisher. This is a list of all his self published books available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Stanek/e/B001...G/ref=sr_tc_2_0 Stanek denies that these works of fiction (and his one war memoir) are self published. However, they are all published by Reagent Press, which Stanek started, owns and operates. A quick check of WA state records reveals this: http://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=602593727 Stanek has stated many times in his blog posts, fake message board chats and fake Amazon reviews, that Reagent Press is a real publsiher. Of course, based on the fact that he IS Reagent Press, this is entirely false. Oddly enough, he managed to convince a few unfortunate souls to publish their books under his Reagent Press name. This is probably an attempt to make Reagent Press look more legit. However, I suspect some of them may be aliases (as well as J.R. King being the pen name of one of Stanek’s children, who probably wrote those two books with his help). Additionally, three of his fantasy series are really just the same books, with different names and broken up in different installments. Keeper Martin Tales 1-4 are the so-called adult versions of his Kingdom and Elves/ Service of Dragons series (which are 8 smaller books) – but are exactly word for word the same (you can check for yourself using Amazon look inside feature). And he moves around bits of the story and adds only a little new material to create his Elf Queen/King books (which are supposed to some sort of alternative take on the story according to the fake reviews). Also he may be including his Ruin Mist journals in his list of 100 published books. These are BLANK journals, of which he has four different ones listed on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Ruin-Mist-Journal-Ro...8539&sr=8-1 And he has mutiple Teacher Guides. He occasionally puts in plugs for these books on teacher discussion boards – pretending to be a teacher of course. http://www.amazon.com/Teachers-Classroom-G...8703&sr=1-2 http://www.teacherfocus.com/forum/viewtopi...f=37&t=1478 And finally- the past several years he has been pumping out dozens of creepy, illustrated children’s books called Bugville Creatures: http://www.bugvillecritters.com/ And these books tend to average 25-30 pages with very little text. And for every four of these small books he publishes, he groups them into collections (called the Bugville Storybook Treasury volumes) - adding yet more titles to his list of 100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Do I spot a veiled threat to Werthead at the bottom of that thread? The fuck did I do? [/baltimore accent] I mentioned the original palava a few times on forums, sure, but I didn't put up a big blog post about it because I'd heard this guy was a nutter and didn't really want to attract too much undue attention like David Langford did, such as getting served with a court order (from a hotmail account, curiously) that was total BS but nevertheless got one one of his hosting sites to withdraw their support for Ansible, which was annoying (and a main reason why Langford takes great delight putting the boot into Stanek even now). I also don't think I posted in the Amazon thread which caused all the chaos in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Kilmore Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Stanek’s blog rant is very similar to this thread in his “Message Board”: http://ruinmist.hmm.com/index.cgi?ac...1159&page=1 Except for the Sparhawk guy, who appears to be a real (but rather unhinged) person from Bulgaria, all the others postings were written by Stanek. This has probably been discussed here before, but if one actually reads some of these “discussion” threads it becomes quite obvious that this is just a ploy by Stanek to pretend that he actually has a fan base (perhaps in hope of getting notice from a real publisher for his fiction efforts). Stanek built up these hundreds of pithy posts over the years by logging in once every other week under one his alt accounts (and then he replies to a few of his previous posts). However, he hasn’t been putting much energy into his board lately. There have only been 10 new postings since last June. Stanek has probably been busy writing new Microsoft Press books (which are published under his real name William R. Stanek). That last post was missing a M'whahahahaha. For shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteHaven Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Stanek’s blog rant is very similar to this thread in his “Message Board”: http://ruinmist.hmm.com/index.cgi?ac...1159&page=1 Except for the Sparhawk guy, who appears to be a real (but rather unhinged) person from Bulgaria, all the others postings were written by Stanek. Are you telling me that he has several accounts there with 2000 posts? That man is crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 The fuck did I do? [/baltimore accent] I mentioned the original palava a few times on forums, sure, but I didn't put up a big blog post about it because I'd heard this guy was a nutter and didn't really want to attract too much undue attention like David Langford did, such as getting served with a court order (from a hotmail account, curiously) that was total BS but nevertheless got one one of his hosting sites to withdraw their support for Ansible, which was annoying (and a main reason why Langford takes great delight putting the boot into Stanek even now). I also don't think I posted in the Amazon thread which caused all the chaos in the first place. I'm fairly certain Stanek's imaginary supporters googles his own name in order to better protect the imaginary good reputation of his hero. What gets me most about him is the sheer scale of the delusion. Despite the poor quality and duplication, he must put a fair old whack of his time into writing them, let alone publishing them and conning the public into buying them, which bespeaks of either someone so bored he'll spend the majority of his time setting up his trolling, or someone who genuinely believes he is that good and is just being screwed over by vicious jealousy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delete this account pls Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 The fuck did I do? [/baltimore accent] Happy now, bitch? *chomps cigar* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjgambino Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 You know, if Stanek wasn't such an asshole I'd actually respect the amount of time he puts into writing his books... even if they are terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Iceman of the North Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 You know, if Stanek wasn't such an asshole I'd actually respect the amount of time he puts into copying writing his books... even if they are terrible. Made a small correction for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Irving Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 OKay I'm 75 pages into Legend of Rah and the Muggles. The only good thing about the book is that because the the type is large, so its a quick read. Besides that its full of fringe logic , content that seems like its from the JBS. As well as horrible writing (Its so bad I think I could write better). I am seriously considering chucking the book into my parents fireplace when I'm at their home for thanksgiving. Also I can really see why the judge threw the Authors case against out of court the book is NOTHING like Harry Potter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kawnliee Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Stanek updates his blog again - this time with a direct references to fans of George R.R. Martin. I'm guessing he's been reading this thread quite a bit: http://www.robertstanek.com/rsblog.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Stanek updates his blog again - this time with a direct references to fans of George R.R. Martin. I'm guessing he's been reading this thread quite a bit: http://www.robertstanek.com/rsblog.htm Seems a mite unfair to blame it on the GRRM fanbase, as I heard about the Stanek 'phenomenon' first from SFX Magazine and then from Dylanfanatic I think on Wotmania. What the odds GRRM is now going to get another whinging email about his 'bullying fans' as he did over Goodkind (seriously)? I notice someone's been running around giving almost every single one of my Amazon.com reviews an 'unhelpful' mark as well. Curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverstar Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 I'm impressed with his time travel abilities, considering he posted that in December 2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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