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Welcome all to my Author Website!
I'm proud to announce that The Nine Lives of Summer, my 10th published book, and my 4th cat book, came out in paperback/ebook worldwide on 1st March 2023.
It is what is known as a 'crossover' title - a book for children (7+) AND adults - especially, but not only, cat-lovers.
Reviews have been just SO excellent - in YOUR CAT magazine and others, plus all genuine reviews on USA Amazon, NetGalley, which are mostly 5 and 4 star. As have sales worldwide, paperback and eBook.
March was the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first, A Cat Called Dog, which is still very popular. That book spawned a shorter child-friendly version and a sequel A Cat Called Dog 2 - The One with the Kittens (2017) - which, for some unknown reason, is borrowed from UK libraries a lot, 2nd of all my books; SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE is number 1. Film rights/options interest in all of them.
That is what is great about books - they are born & remain. A bit like paper children who go on to live lives of their own, which you, the mere author/birth parent, can't control even if you want to, just as you can't decide what meaning readers read into your stories.
Books LAST and are there for evermore. I love that. Unlike all the drivel and dross online, all the pointless reviews by attention-seekers, which are just toilet paper for the brain really.
Books matter, and books remain.
THERE IS NO BAD TO BOOKS. None.
Books CAN be dangerous too. GOOD!
Books can also be offensive - especially to those who deserve to be offended and who have NO idea how to really read at all. GOOD again!
Offensive is GOOD! Every single great work of art in history has offended people - whether music, painting, literature, poetry etc.
How anyone can be offended be a crossover cat book is beyond me and would, I think, be problematic to all reasonable, sane people. It's a CAT book, for goodness sake! An imaginative fictional story in which a cat dies to be reborn all over the world into many diverse cultures. That is NOT promoting animal cruelty as some LOONYTOON reviewer seriously claims. Nor is it racist. Some people are just totally deranged, disturbed & deluded. Maybe deliberately and maliciously so? Truth will out, I am sure. Very odd, anyway. PEAK BONKERS!
The PROBLEM is not the book or me; the problem is anyone who claims a book is a problem, claims it can hurt & damage kids cause trauma to readers. WHAT A DISGUSTING CLAIM! ANY reader who sees that in this beautful cat book is TOTALLY off their head deranged.
I am SO proud to have published 10 books since 2010. They'll still be there in 10, 20, 50, 100 years to be read and enjoyed. My legacy.
That is well over half a million well-written words, by the way, bought & read by diverse readers worldwide (esp Germany & Scandinavia for some reason, and of course the USA and Canada). VERY hard work to write all that fiction from scratch, I can tell you, but worth it.
I have plenty of famous fans too: politicians (MPs, lords galore), journalists, household names: David Attenborough's sent me 12 hand-written letters since 2010, Vera Lynn emailed me via her PA when she was 101 years old, Lady Anne Dodd & Ken before his passing wrote to me, Julia Baird (John Lennon's sister) emailed me. More letters, cards, emails from Delia Smith, David Bellamy, Jeremy Corbyn & union leaders, Boris Johnson when Mayor of London et al.
I now have 10 scrapbooks of all my reviews and replies from people for all my 10 books - and piles of letters and cards too. My archive, with all my writing notes, if anyone wants it all in the end...
The largest creative agency in LA even got in touch re RASMUS. Yup, Hollywood! If it happens, it happens. I CAN write screenplays too.
And...I've just received a LOVELY contact from a reader/cat fan in the Far East inviting me to visit, which is great! Japan, South Korea, maybe more. I had NO idea I had even readers there until now! They say they adore all my 4 cat books. So my next book tour then. Better start brushing up my Japanese! I'm not such a fan of the food tbh, but I'll try anything! When in Rome...
My books are in SO many libraries worldwide. All 10 of my published books - plus a special limited edition private print-run of 30 copies of my middle grade children's novel DINOSAUR JOE which is now in several UK primary school libraries and the Michael Palin Centre for Stuttering too (because the main character overcomes his own stutter with the dinosaurs!). It will be properly published one day, for sure.
My SANTA GOES ON STRIKE poem picture book is adored by both kids and adults, and is in so many schools in the UK, Italy, France, Canada, USA, which read it out loud at Christmas concerts a lot. It was featured on TALK RADIO EUROPE in their Christmas Eve show, read aloud by the wondrous Hannah Murray who has also interviewed me 7 times now on the BOOK SHOW, about THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER and THE LOVED ONES poetry book too, plus my novels RASMUS and SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE and my A CAT CALLED DOG books. Great book show, that. Best one on radio anywhere!
All my cat books, child-friendly versions and crossover titles like THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER are in UK primary schools too, libraries and yes, used in lessons even. Children LOVE my cat books! YAY!
Kids can cope with them & love them all - though they're probably for more able readers (I refuse to dumb down ever; plenty of accessible books out there for less able readers). They are STORIES, where children LEARN that life is not all pink sunshine, rainbows & unicorns or fluffy pompom babyfication. Life is pain, suffering & has death within it; bad things happen, sadness is real. BUT people cope & survive & thus grow and learn RESILIENCE. That's what children NEED in stories, as Walt Disney knew, meaning as well as entertainment. That is what MOVES & MEANS. Walt got it, as do I.
The clueless hand-wringing hysterics demanding trigger warning need to challenged, frankly - they cause anxiety in kids and stunt their development, cause them real harms. Their constant demand to trigger-warning everything and treat children like babies is tantamount to child abuse and, I suspect strongly, is even promoting and causing anxiety, depression and mental illness in the young. And WHO THE HELL ARE THEY to pass judgment? Self-appointed finger-wagging nannies, misguided, ignorant and clueless. And just being parent does not make your opinion valid either (any idiot can breed - just look around you to see that!). Challenge that narrative. Call out the lies of the hysterical misguided fools who want trigger warnings.
In the midst of life we are in death. Deal with it. GROW UP! That is what children are doing anyway - better than some adults arguably. It is what HAS to be done. Otherwise, no resilience is developed - which is maybe why we see such an increase in mental illness in kids now. BABIFICATION did that. Silly mollycoddling mothers and paranoid parents did that. Stunting children and stopping them reaching the normal, natural milestones of childhood is so very sad & wrong.
Children's stories CAN be about serious subjects, THE most serious, death included. I do not think most people give kids enough credit - they can and do cope with big topics in fiction, books, films, some very dark stuff, which they know is part of life. Children are like little sponges, can absorb a lot of information.
Maybe films can be horrific - some kids' movies look horrific to me, so much violence and very scary, even for small children. BUT we do NOT need to dumb down for kids in books, in stories; we can and SHOULD introduce the very young to the bad things in life, and the natural things like death, which my beautiful cat book THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER does in an age appropriate way, but not the twee slushy schmaltzy cod-spiritual way I HATE in some cat stoires - I deliberately did NOT write trash like that. I hate it.
There is no horror in THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER, though it is an emotional rollercoaster of a story, and no swearing either, no blood and guts, no staged horror just lots of LOVE and feelings. BUT of course the cat dies 8 times to live 9 lives, a NEAT IDEA you'd think - because it is. But one, just ONE, deranged hysteric reader claimed was a threat and danger to children and could cause readers trauma, and is promoting animal cruelty to boot! Accused ME of being a threat and danger to children and readers too. INSANE!
Honestly, some people are just plain nuts! I pity them, I suppose, those who are perpetually hand-wringing about things, projecting their own strange brains and hysteria only the world and books like me. JUST DERANGED.
So, I have readers all over the world now who spontaneously get in touch from time to time, by email or Twitter-X or occasionally via this author website. I know my books really MOVE people, emotionally connect with them - or as one deranged hysteric reviewer says, 'trigger' them. GOOD! All that psychobabble word means is a book MOVED PEOPLE EMOTIONALLY which is evidence of an author SUCCEEDING! Doh! Those parroting psychobabble words are always so clueless, but less bright than parrots. An emotional reaction to words is what writers crave. I achieve it. That is because I work hard to develop my writing talent to get that reaction. It is SUCCESS!
Also, all my books have something to say, which is part of my AUTHOR VOICE together with comedy (often dark) - we all have such a voice and that is mine. All my writing exhibits these two elements. I have no interest whatsoever in writing the sort of trashy eBook series that get reviewed on Goodreads so much, usually dross like horror, romance, 4th rate crime fiction - and mostly those self-published eBook are given away for free, NOT sold, 70-80% given gratis to reviewers and friends/contacts, other eBook trash authors from Goodreads groups to 'buy' good reviews. No thanks. Not for me.
I am pleased to say I have some big fans in Germany - I may visit there again next year. I've been a few times, several cities (Berlin, Bochum, Dortmund), but many years ago, and my German is ropey (trying to brush it up now with a LEARN GERMAN course). In Germany, I could do more Nazi and WWII research for future crime thrillers I plan to write; & I've never visited Hamburg (where my 4th cousin twice removed was the posh British officer in charge post WWII) and Nazi home city Munich and all Bavaria, so...looking forward to it. While there and here, I shall research the sequels for my NAZI CRIME THRILLER set in the 1980s which is a work in progress (on draft 6 now, will edit after professional report advice). I love Germany and many mainland European countries more than the increasingly puritanical UK, infected with wokeness and race obsession from the USA, with a corrupt pc gestapo police silencing free speech like the Stasi. Same motivation. Just wrong.
I also hope to visit Israel next year to meet a beautiful, brave people in THEIR homeland. I shall use the big compensation I shall be receiving from various parties - for being the target of an anti-Semitic racist hate campaign, and sustained harassment, stalking and abuse online, with 12 counts of defamation and more, personal injury and discrimination from the corrupt thug police etc - to travel there (oh the sweet SWEET irony, and then some). I may live and work there in future. We'll see. Best visit first! Holiday ahead. AM YISRAEL CHAI!
When there, I shall certainly share my experience of being attacked by malicious hatemonger anti-Semites in the UK who accuse anyone supporting Israel/Jews of being a racist. They even manage to mobilise corrupt and systemically anti-Semitic/racist/sexist UK police in their obsessive hate campaigns of revenge against their victims, which is basically anyone who exposes their deranged malicious mendacious hateful racist anti-Semitic instincts (a news story soon, watch this space). I shall no doubt be interviewed by the Israeli media/TV, as well as Jewish media in the UK, and many other national media outlets including TV. I have done TV/radio interviews galore before, so will, when I visit Israel. I shall tell my story about the anti-Semitic-inspired abuse I have suffered online for a year now and the systemically anti-Semitic UK police force with its appalling bias & two-tier policing. FOR SHAME! Hating Jews/Zionists/Israel is NOT 'progressive' at all, NOT 'liberal', NOT 'tolerant' or 'diverse'. It is racist, the New Nazi-ism. Accusing a supporter of Israel who defends Jews, and criticises anti-Semitic hate march mobs of all colours and faiths of racism is sick and twisted indeed, and SO VERY WRONG, especially when police parrot the lies of some obsessive deranged maniac with a grudge. The haters will be exposed by the VERY media soon, including the police and my accuser. And will get sued. HARD.
These hater troll cyberstalker bully types claim that if you dare criticise (e.g. on Twitter) anyone of colour & faith, then you are racist - EVEN IF you are criticising a racist anti-semitic mob of mostly Asian Muslims targeting a branch of KFC for the crime of feeding chicken to Jews (as I did on Twitter; I criticise plenty of people NOT of colour or faith - makes no difference to me; their hypocritical anti-Semitism and the way our #twotierpolice ignore their crimes is what matters).
My hater troll took a screenshot that as 'evidence' of my 'racism' and made a malicious complaint motivated by revenge - and the corrupt systemically sexist and anti-Semitic police sided with her. That makes them culpable and I shall sue them SO hard for that and much else besides. Making a false report to police is a crime, as is perverting the course of justice, as is withholding evidence, as well as harassment and malicious communications (up to 10,000 words of malicious fale allegations and abuse aimed at me on MY book pages on Goodreads - MY BOOK PAGES - now THAT is a prologed hate campaign of harassment, starting 28/8/23 and not ending until 13/9/24. Wow!)
The media shall have all details, and publish them, and make this a news story - about my own personal cyberstalker!
And WHY did my stalker go to the police? Because I told the hater the vile abuse they were spewing at ME on MY BOOK PAGES on Goodreads was defamation and I could take the hater to court. It was defamation and it is. Just that. REVENGE was my abuser's motivation and she lied and lied, disgustingly claimed I threatened her and her family which police acceopt I did not do. THUS her lies are proven malicious and deliberate.
The hater hijacked MY book page for 9 LIVES OF SUMMER on Goodreads and used it as their own personal blog, so stated on there "he's now saying he'll see me in court" and THAT IS WHY THE MALICIOUS TWISTED PSYCHOWITCH CALLED POLICE and LIED to them, played the victim, claimed I was harassing the hater, when the abuse was ALL spewed at me on MY BOOK PAGES on Goodreads and Amazon and the Twitter too. Total lies, defamation (12 points of it, disgusting allegations), false accusations made against me by my cyberstalker - such as the claim I issued threats which police accept is a LIE. My hater lied to police, several times - that is perverting the course of justice, making a false report to police and with-holding evidence - and and action WILL be taken. People can go to prison to that. It is serious crime. AND the abuse is STILL THERE on Goodreads under 4 of my books, MY BOOK PAGES so that is harassment and malicious communications aimed at ME for a prologed period 28/8/23-13/9/24).
I have ALL screenshots, 10,000 words of it for over a year!!! EVIDENCE FOR CRIMINAL AND CIVIL CASES! Lots of it.
I just wanted the deranged maniac harassing me to STOP and GO AWAY and LEAVE ME ALONE but the hater did not, but kept ON AND ON obsessively spewing abuse and disgusting lies against me on MY BOOK PAGES on Goodreads (and Goodreads/Amazon enabled that racist hate campaign which broke all their rules SO they will be sued in US courts for that HARD). My stalker abuser is obsessed with me.
The hate campaign against me by the psychostalker has all been motivated by REVENGE, yet another a nasty hater trying to play the innocent victim by making false accusations. AN OLD TRICK, THAT but one I can expose with evidence and then the liar will be in a whole heap of trouble for lying to police. And I can sue and also make complaints to police (senior level) about much else besides - 3 officers in Wales will face action and more in northern England for bare corruption and bias, for siding with a deranged anti-Semitic racist and mobilising as part of the stalker's hate campaign of revenge against me, an innocent author who tried to stop that harassment and abuse targeting me, by challenging a bully. The law will sort them out, and the media. Over to them. I trust the law as much as I distrust the corrupt thugs of the woke police.
And I SHALL WIN BIGLY! On all counts. JUSTICE IS COMING.
Well done Allison Pearson for exposing the UK thought police after she got the knock from the pc gestapo because of a tweet ALL because someone, her accuser (like my accuser NOT a victim at all! I am the victim!) made a pity party pathetic complaint to police. Not right, not just, not in the public interest, not proportionate, police bias and over-reach, aimed at humiliating, embarrassing, harassing and stressing out the VICTIMS who get the knock from the woke thought police bullies for 'THOUGHT CRIME'. This will now grow and grow, the momentum is on MY SIDE. A storm is coming! I AM THE STORM!
The Great British press will roast you all in time, name and shame the bare-faced liars who claim they are victims when they are not - up to the press, nothing to do with me. I shall lean back, relax, count my compo and enjoy the smell of crackling - I love it in the morning!
I literally hate no-one and nothing - and I am baffled as to why some deranged, disturbed, vengeful mentaloid psycho individual (who then claims to be a victim!) has chosen to attack me, for over a year now, online with a real obsessive hate campaign of revenge and defamation. It's been a truly bizarre experience - unpleasant, yes, causing me intense alarm and distress, great harms which WILL be paid for later in substantial damages. But as many bad experiences are, it has all also been informative, educational, inspiring. I've now truly seen the face of deranged evil, and lo, it has a spiteful vindictive snide smirk smeared with the red lipstick on its ugly lying face!
MY RIGHT TO WRITE FICTION. The fact police told me it is not is jawdroppingly shockingly AWFUL and will receive huge media attention esp in the writing press - as will the disgusting accusations at me for being a neo-nazi, a drug dealer etc etc etc.
I shall NOT be silenced. I shall NEVER be silenced!
And, of course, as the victim of an obsessive hateful stalker who spewed thousands of words of abuse and lies against me on MY book pages on Goodreads for many months, I can also request police to arrest my abuser. My stalker lied to police many times (which I can prove), seemed to withhold evidence, pervert the course of justice too, made a false report. If they refuse, A PRIVATE PROSECUTION can happen. All for the future. Looking forward to it.
I am the VICTIM here, not the perpetrator. ALL the evidence proves that. I was attacked. I defended myself all while by stalker hijacked my Goodreads book accounts, and incited third parties to join their hate campaign of revenge against me too - ALL because I challenged a deranged ignorant hysterical nasty review of my beautful crossover cat book THE NINES LIVES OF SUMMER.
Again, WATCH THIS SPACE. Justice is coming, folks! Even it it takes years, I shall win this war though did not start it. I am Israel. My attacker is Hamas. Just that. And they will be dust.
I recently watched a great film - SICK OF MYSELF (2022, Norway) - which shows the EXACT psychopath cyberstalker malicious deranged maniac type who has been attacking, harassing, abusing, trolling, stalking, defaming me online, on MY book pages on GOODREADS especially, for over a whole year now (28/8/23-13/9/24).
On Friday 13th September 2024 my obsessive hater crybully posted a new GOODREADS review for THE LOVED ONES, my much-praised poetry book that I CAN PROVE my hater DID NOT BUY OR READ even in page reads via Kindle. Yet my cyberstalker claims their reviews are 100% honest! Yeah right. I can PROVE they did not but or read my book SO it is a dishonest malicious review on MY book pages on Goodreads/Amazon whose sole purpose is causing me alarm and distress, and try to trash my reputation and wreck my writing career and destroy my life Wow. OVER A YEAR OF HARASSMENT AND BULLYING ABUSE NOW - the law informed; police have all 10,000 words of abuse spewed at me by by stalker in the last year. Stalkers often get hoist by their own petard and that WILL happen in this case. Start a war with me and expect to lose it - badly. Liars and bullies pay in the end. Friday 13th will be VERY unlucky for some, I guarantee it.
OVER a year of hate and abuse spewed at me by the obsessive cyberstalker triggered because I dared criticise a deranged mentalist hysterical defamatory review of my BEAUTIFUL book THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER on MY BOOK PAGES on Goodreads (what sort of crazy person gets triggered by a cat book?). SO obsessive, hateful, deranged, bullying, nasty, vindictive. TOXIC FEMININITY? Or just some psycho loon?
I mean, WHY BOTHER? WHY? WHAT sort of deranged obsessive person even does that? GET A LIFE! SHOO! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!
Much of the filth and lies are STILL THERE on Goodreads and Amazon, incl the FAKE malicious review of my poetry book WHICH the hater has NOT bought which I can PROVE - 12 page reads only. I can prove my hater lied to police. With digital data EVIDENCE.
Goodreads (Amazon) will be sued for enabling a malicious racist hate campaign against me - on FOUR of my books on their website with fake trash reviews & defamatory claims, malicious lies, disgustung allegations STILL THERE after a year. The filth from the human pollution that is my psycho cyberstalker is still there, STINKING up MY book pages on Goodreads - THAT is harassment, right there, a prolonged steak of malicious communication shit. Just wrong and ALL printed off in screenshots. AS EVIDENCE for civil and criminal courts. THIS WILL NEVER END NOW, not until I say so - when I DECIDE I am satisfied with the damages and compensation, apologies and outcomes I desire. Not before. THERE WILL BE A RECKONING.
What I say to my cyberstalkers and ANY other racist haters is this:
The TRUTH will set you free. You are obviously festering in a cage of pain, a whole world of hurt, and want revenge against me and the whole world (I suspect you project your hatred of another man onto me too). Think. Look at yourself. WHAT are you trying to achieve? Revenge? Vengeance? WHY? What for? Trying to get sympathy? Compo? Because I can assure you the compo will all be mine.
WHY waste so much public money as part of your hate campaign or revenge against me? Public money which COULD be used for real policing or public services, for real crimes to protect the public, for the NHS, for good things. Instead thousands wasted on a hate campaign against me. Most people would be ashamed of that.
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. If you confess NOW to the police that you lied, it will be much better for you in the end. If you persist with this deranged malicious pointless vindinctive obsessive hate campaign against me then that will explode in your face, as you will be in court, and sued, and in the media and exposed for what you are with your lies revealed too. Just TELL THE TRUTH - it will set you free. Because trust me, when I know I am right and someone starts a war against me, I never lose that war. Never. And be sure to know that if someone hits me, I hit them back twice - no, ten times - as hard.
Sure, you are my 'biggest fan' like that mad deranged unstable woman in that film MISERY. I can PROVE you have lied, 12 points of defamation, false reviews for my books, false accusations that I issues threats, did disability hate crime, much more besides, that you have stalked me online for a year, on 4 of MY book pages on Goodreads, 2 on Amazon, yet more hate against me on Twitter (I have all copies/screenshots), and I can show you read this - MY AUTHOR PAGE for my fans and agents/publishers - obsessively (I can see where those who access this page live in the UK!!!). Know that I can prove you a liar with data evidence in any court of law, and can prove you lied to police when claiming you bought THE LOVED ONES (12 pages downloaded only). I merely RESPONDED to attacks where I could - Goodreads then when my hater and that corrupt company banned me (yet did not ban my racist hater spewing abuse on MY BOOK PAGES - shame on them!) - then on MY author website, AS IS MY RIGHT. I copied and posted YOUR hate from MY book pages on Goodreads and cannot be at all blamed for that. Look in the mirror!
BUT why don't you just MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, anti-Semites?
Why have you been SO OBSESSED with me since I challenged that deranged hysterical review of my BEAUTIFUL cat book in September 2023? That is full-on PSYCHO behaviour. You got so triggered by that you spewed 10,000 words of abuse against me, came at me, obsessively stalked me all over the internet, spewed abuse incl 12 points of real defamation (and if I sue, I win and get costs). I inform. I NEVER threatened anyone AS POLICE ACCEPT thus proving you a barfaced habitual liar making malicious allegations against an innocent man (ask them if you do not believe me). I have never threatened ANYONE in my life! You make vile accusations casually against me, an accomplished author. WHY? I have no idea. Envy? Or because you are just sick? Mental illness/disorder of some sort, sounds like narcissist personality disorder to me, this hunger for obsessive revenge against anyone who has challenged you. As I say, you are clearly suffering and I hope you get the help you need, at home or elsewhere. Medication maybe would help, or a ward maybe.
SO, yet again, why can you not just MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, get off MY book pages on Goodreads (x4) - so much filth STILL there - and life your life? I did not stalk or harass you and you know it, liar. YOU are no victim. I am the VICTIM of you, not the other way round. That is what the evidence shows: I am the victim. ME. NOT YOU.
You have attacked, abused and obsessively stalked me persistently over a long time period, and incited third parties to do the same, in a deranged hate campaign of revenge which no doubt have given you malicious pleasure in some way - but why? Do you not find that worrying? WHY DO IT? SO sick and twisted, deranged strange obsessive mentalist behaviour. Go away and LEAVE ME ALONE! I say the same to ANY stalker. WHY BOTHER? Get help. Please. LOONY!
WHAT is the purpose of all this? Envy? Because I am a successful author of 10 books & my hater has publishing NOTHING and is thus NOT an author at all, just a bullsh*tter blagger, one of so many self-appointed 'experts' online. ANYONE can say they are going to write a novel or do something, and plenty do but it means nothing unless you actually DO IT. I have. I am an author. And a good one!
BUT THEN that is the PSYCHOPATH playbook with narcissitic personality disorder - that deranged delusional projected reality which bears no relation to actual reality, 'vindictive and vengeful, obsessed with destroying anyone who goes against them'. Very odd, to be honest. Very nasty. Twisted, spiteful, snide. Never seen anything like it before, except in films. Text book mental probably. These sorts of people must be SO unhappy if this is their ambition in life - to hate on others, stalk and harass them, try to destroy them and what is good. To be honest, I pity them and hope they get the professional help they so clearly need. The media will expose them all.
But such is life. My stoicism gets me through that as it gets me through AND the thought of the big compo I shall be paid in the near future. I always defeat my enemies in the end when I know I am right in the fight. I ALWAYS win wars others start against me.
THE WHOLE VICTIM THING IS A LIE as it says in that Norwegian film.
The professional victims splashing around in a perpetual pity party puddle will find it drowns them when they are exposed as liars.
That is what one must accept about such people (usually women) - it is the psychopath, narcassitic personality type weaponising lies and tears to get revenge on men. That is all. Boring really. Endless attention-seeking, playing the victim, manblaming often, fake concern of a deeply disturbed sick individual perpetually playing the victim. Sadly, police and authorities always believe women who weaponise lies for revenge - at first anyway. Later, in court, or the media, NO. Not when all the evidence is examined.That is where truth will out. And I have all the evidence I need if it ends up there (at vast pointless public expense). AND I can prove my abuser incited third parties to hate on me AND liaised with the Sketty witch my malicious sick plodspawn abuser from over a decade ago. Two unhappy mentally deranged malicious individuals there. Sad really. KARMA.
All the abusive comments to me by my harasser cyberstalker have all been so disgustingly insulting, abusive and offensive, & caused me severe alarm and distress and real suffering in so many ways (as I have stated in my VICTIM STATEMENT). And for what? To satisfy the obsessive hunger for revenge by a delusional, nasty, malicious, vengeful, vindictive mentalist nobody? This a all DEFINITELY a criminal matter- private prosecution possible too if police refuse to act. It is harassment, malicious communications and defamation. STALKING even.
Those who do such things WILL be exposed and no doubt the media will name & shame them, get their faces on TV. But I shall be contacting no-one directly and doing nothing. I have NEVER EVER stalked or threatened anyone and never have, SO the claim made that I did is DEFAMATION which the police repeated so I have a REAL big case against them (I shall sue on 10+ points soon). The Great British media will expose the liars and fakers. Over to them...
I shall give anyone a TV/radio/press interview about this - I love TV/radio interviews, so direct and honest, press interviews can distort and misquote imho.
Press can just contact me by email acatcalleddog@hotmail.co.uk any time.
Phone number on request.
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I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THE DREADFUL HAMAS TERROR MASSACRE IN ISRAEL HAPPENED over a year AGO now.
SO I HAVE BEEN UNDER ATTACK FOR ALMOST ALL OF THAT TIME (28.8.23-13.9.24) TOO FROM THOSE WHOSE ANTI-SEMITISM MAKES ME FEEL PHYSICALLY SICK. Race hate from someone who mobilised the police as their own personal militia - those who persecuted me will ALL pay for what they have done. Like HamaSS.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE JEWS OF ISRAEL ARE GOING THROUGH, THE INJUSTICE OF IT - BUT I ALSO GET THEIR DEFIANCE, BECAUSE I FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT TOO AND WILL NEVER QUIT. I AM ISRAEL.
IT IS REAL RACISM, MAKE NO MISTAKE - RACISM SUPPORTED BY THE UK POLICE, DISGUSTINGLY. I SHALL EXPOSE THE MALICIOUS VINDICTIVE LIAR RACIST ANTI-SEMITIC CYBERBULLY WHO HAS SPEWED UP TO 10,000 WORD OF ABUSE AT ME ONLINE, INCL ON 4 OF MY GOODREADS BOOK PAGES, IN THE NATIONAL PRESS SOON ENOUGH - THE JEWISH PRESS WILL COVER IT FIRST, IN THE UK, USA AND ISRAEL ITSELF NO DOUBT! THIS WILL ALSO GET MASSIVE PUBLICITY ON ALL AUTHOR AND PUBLISHING FORUMS WORLDWIDE I AM SURE, ESPECIALLY AFTER I AM AWARDED BIG DAMAGES.
More compensation due when I sue Goodreads in the USA - I have my list of 10 possible San Francisco attorneys to sue Goodreads/Amazon for enabling a hate campaign of revenge against me by one of their top reviewers who tried so hard to wreck my writing career, trash my reputation, maliciously destroy my life. SO they came at me. NOW it is my turn. My abuser's name will become synonymous with a deranged psycho attacking at author - My Own Personal Baby Reindeer. All for what? Obsessive revenge from a deeply disturbed and hateful individual? WHY? Pointless. Like it.
ANYONE WHO CLAIMS ANY OF MY BOOKS ARE RACIST IS A MALICIOUS MALEVOLENT LIAR OR JUST PLAIN THICK. It is a disgusting allegation as the others made against me are AND I SHALL NOT LET IT LIE - this will never end, not until I get justice to my full and complete satisfaction. I decide. No-one else.
Just read THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER - so diverse and international, visits 12 countries, Africans in Spain, Aborigines in Australia, African-Americans in a diverse international travelling circus in the USA. Racist my foot! My ACCUSER stalker would seem to be a real racist, hates Israel/Jews it seems. I have copies of all the poisonous liar's tweets and posts online. EVIDENCE APLENTY. No amount of listing pro-Israel anti-Woke books on Goodreads will change that or delete the massive amounts of evidence I have in screenshots.
HOW my writing that beautiful cat book in 2020 and publishing it in March 2023 caused a deeply malicious probable psycho stalker to incite hatred against me for months in such a deranged way, I do not know. It is nuts. Just insane. NO author I have talked to has experienced anything like it. Ever. We all get bad reviews, revenge ones, fake ones, but not this. I shall be writing articles about this with names changed for the press, for sure, for which I shall be paid.
The media will be given ALL details, ALL text, ALL abuse, defamation, abuse, malicious lies spouted at me - by someone who seriously thinks a cat dying in a story means the author is guilty or 'promoting animal abuse'. Yes, really. SERIOUS LOONYTOONS! I suppose Walt Disney also promoted animal abuse in Bambi, Dumbo and 101 Dalmations. WHAT ROT! Unless the police want to dig old Walt up and interview him too? Accuse him of whatever they project on him?
What has happened is almost incredible. I wrote a BEAUTIFUL amd much-loved crossover cat book which all reviewers loved - except ONE hater who claimed my book could cause trauma in readers and is a threat and danger to children, and by implication, the hater accused me of that too. NOT ON. And against Goodreads rules.
GOODREADS chose NOT to remove that racist hate, abuse and disgusting defamation, NOT to apply their own rules to the self-appointed 'top reviewer', SO THAT makes them culpable IN LAW for enabling hate - and I shall see them in court in the USA in the next year or two. IF Goodreads had enforced their own rules fairly and consistently, they would have removed my hater's initial review when I complained about it 3 times before challenging it (and maybe banned the hater for life from Goodreads, which may still happen when they reinstate me after the US court case). They did not and sided with my abuser many of whose hate posts are STILL on MY BOOK PAGES after 4 of my books JUST BECAUSE the hater had written 1300 reviews for them. The abuse against me, blatant lies (why the accuser KNEW were and are lies), 12 counts of defamation - ALL STILL THERE after many months, including my stalker inciting hatred against me from third parties in a hate campaign of revenge they instigated and orchestrated against me in such a deranged and obsessive and relentless way. That makes Goodreads/Amazon culpable for enabling a hate campaign against me, SO I plan to sue them for a 7 figure sum for damage to my career, health, wealth, reputation and future earnings. This is a war I shall win, I know.
SO I reported that review 3 times and the odiously amoral and corrupt Goodreads did not act, SO I replied to the loon who made the bizarre accusation in a review. I did not know then that the reviewer would be SO triggered by my daring to challenge that absurd deranged review that they'd spend the next year spewing thousands of words of vile abuse against me on on MY book pages on Goodreads and on Amazon, posting fake trash reviews for my other books they have not read, THEN claiming that they are somehow the victim and I am the cyberstalker abuser. ALL EVIDENCE SHOWS THE OPPOSITE. But well, now I shall enjoy my abuser get hoist by its own petard, in public, and have legal cases to pursue for damages.
In late December 2023, the police demanded my abuser remove the 3000 words of abusive comments left after my THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER bookpage on Goodreads which the hater deliberately and maliciously HIJACKED (by inciting third parties to all complain to Goodreads at the same time about me) to harass, abuse, malign, and defame me (I have copies and screenshots of ALL 5000 words - just shocking, my obsessive loony cyberstalker crybully will see ALL those read in court and published in the media, so CANNOT pose as a victim in the face of the truth). It is MY book page. MINE. Hijacked by a hater.
On 23 December 2023, after police warned my abuser and told them to remove the abuse they POSTED THIS WHOPPER LIE below claiming they chose to remove them.
Remember, THE WHOLE VICTIM THING IS A LIE:
After the long and still ongoing saga with this Author I decided to delete some of my comments that were on this thread. I didn't realise you could until I found out you can only do it from a laptop and I use my phone app. I finally got fed up of everything I say and do online on different websites being reposted on the internet in various locations by him for months now.This thread reads one-sided anyway as Goodreads removed his early nasty posts pretty fast so it won't make sense to anyone reading this thread.
OH so you got fed up?
What, fed up of the hate campaign of revenge you pursued against me ON MY GOODREADS BOOK PAGE - MINE, NOT YOURS - inciting third parties to join it, ALL BECAUSE you got TRIGGERED by my criticism of your DERANGED review of my beautiful book?
Fed up of the thousands of words of abuse YOU posted on MY bookpages on Goodreads being copied and pasted by me. well, YOU WROTE THEM on MY book pages. Why? Why hijack MY book pages? I just copied and pasted YOUR HATEFUL ABUSIVE WORDS which YOU posted on MY book pages on Goodreads with a real pattern of hate and harassment.
AND THE LIES, abuse, defamation is STILL THERE on Goodreads after 4 of my books - more than enough to sue them (owned by Amazon) in US courts, and my cyberstalker hater & police who repeated the lies. I have never EVER threatened anyone IN MY LIFE. The accusation I did is MALICOUS COMMUNICATION/HARASSMENT which are crimes for which arrest can happen, and defamation for which civial action is possible. I have spoken to police who accept I THREATENED NO-ONE despite the lies of my hater's fwends the corrupt thugs of Durham Police (JUSTIVE IS COMING for them in full complaints and legal action for bias, systemic sexism/anti-semitism & defamation, repeating the malicious lies of a proven liar as fact to trash my reputation and cause me serious harms. KARMA IS COMING). THIS IS SICK MALICIOUS LIES Still on Goodreads in comments posted my BEAUTFIUL THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER book. Many removes on police orders, not all. Here is defamation and evidence my hater is stalking me on THIS MY AUTHOR WEBSITE obsessively for a prolonged hate campaign of revenge and harassment:
2/10/23 It went beyond belief….you just have to read under the News section of his website to see the level of vitriol and threats. I’ve not looked today but if not gone by tomorrow I’ll be calling the police again. It’s absolutely horrid. I don’t know what type of person acts and thinks that way. Especially over a single book review.
I REPEAT: I have NEVER EVER threatened anyone, BUT my abuser has, as she does here.
A SINGLE BOOK REVIEW it says. Nope, a hate campaign of revenge against me by a SICK MENTALIST TRIGGERED PSYCHO which lasted OVER A YEAR with up to 10,000 words on 4 of MY book pages on Goodreads, 2 on Amazon and Twitter X - and I have ALL SCREENSHOTS, 3 huge folders of the filth spewed at me. WHAT SORT OF PERSON DOES THAT just because I rightly challenged a sick malicious abusive review which claims I and my book was a threat and danger to children? HOW SICK do you have to be to do that? Be triggered int a hate campaign lasting over a year, playing the victim with police (wasting so much public money).
The law allows people abused and harassed in prolonged hate campaigns to lose their temper actually, as it is a reasonable response. JUST LOOK what the liar has called me - a child abuser, for a start! Someone who faked his qualifications, whose reviews are all fake, with hardly any sales - ALL LIES. The claim I made threats - VICIOUS SICK LIES. The claim I promote animal cruety and disability hate crime/speech. OH JUSTIVE IS COMING FOR YOU, LIAR. And then some, No wonder you're depressed. GOOD. But a storm is coming for you and all liars & abusers, police included.
Oh revenge will be sweet. But my quest is for JUSTICE and I SHALL HAVE IT! My rage will mean I defeat injustice. The harms, trauma and cost incl lost income in future and health issues caused me needlessly by this evil sick malicious pity party witch means I shall be awarded considerable damages too from various parties. I AM COMING FOR YOU ALL! And right is on MY side. So I shall win.
And then the malicious hypocrite goes hypermental for one 1* review on some self-published crappy 2016 US horror anthololy they paid to get a story in,. WHAT A LOSER! Goodreads will pay for their siding with the malicious cyberstalker bully attacking an innocent author - they did so as the nothing posted 1300 free copy reviews for them, over half a million words. The abuse I have suffered from this abuser goes beyong trolling - it is criminal. Goodreads/Amazon will be sued in US courts for 7 figures for their being complicit in this attempt to wreck my writing career and trash my reputation and destroy my life. The abuse is STILL THERE after 4 of my books. WHY? WHY GOODREADS YOU HYPOCRITES? You are part of this hate campaign against me and YOU WILL PAY TOO.
Here ths BABYWOMAN moans about a 1* review for her - when she trashed ALL my books with 1* reviews and posted abuse and lies after 4 of them, incl defamation, threats, disgusting allegations. NO VERIFIED PURCHASE for the malicious witch except the FREE copy of my BEAUTIFUL book The Nine Lives of SUmmer who everyone except LOONIES love. I have screenshots of EVERYTHING from Goodreads, Amazon, Twitter - almost 10,000 words of bare abuse aimed at me directly for over a year. Expect to be sued and arrested.
2/10/23
I am stunned. Just found he’s written an attack on my one
story in an anthology - singling out my story and name and trashed it. It’s yet another of his fake accounts. I know his wording style by now so well. Read his website and you can tell. I’ve reported
it to Amazon. What an awful person. According to his own website Goodreads has banned him. Claims he never needed it and bags it out then. I am now reconsidering things after coming across the Amazon
review (and he’s not a verified purchaser).
Looking up and being derogatory about my disabled son on
Google crossed a big line. He didn’t find him and won’t. My son is literally invisible on the internet with his IT skills. He’s on zero social media. His name isn’t anything like mine. The boy with
blue hair and piercings he said was my son isn’t. But shame for being unkind on the looks and style of whomever that person is.
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I feel very sorry for any kids with such monstrous mothers. YET MORE lies, defamation and abuse - I have a HUGE presence om social media actually. Being UNKIND? Look in the mirror, EVIL WITCH!
I mean, WHY? WHY NOT LEAVE ME ALONE? ALL OF YOU.
That is the ONLY reason I responsed to your hate - to stop YOUR harassment and hate campaign and abuse against ME on MY book pages which yhou deliberately and malicious hijacked. I did NOT 'come at you' or harass you AT ALL and you know it, YOU KNOW you attacked me and I just responded to it to try and GET YOU TO STOP your malicious vindictive vengeful obsessive prolonged hate campaign of revenge against me, hijacking MY book pages on Goodreads,. MY PAGES not yours. I was attacked and responded as ALL EVIDENCE SHOWS. Police know this, so know who lied... Serious, that.
The police then obviously told you on 16th April 2024 to stop posting, editing and renewing your poisonous hateful reviews of my 2 books on Goodreads so they get high up in your Goodreads feed - your intention as ever was and is to incite third parties to hate on me, to join your hate campaign of revenge against me, to trash my lovely books out of loyalty to you as your Goodreads 'fwends' (you seem to have 25, most older women in the USA). How sad. Police have FULL details as does my lawyer, and the media will have it all too.
And then the hater posted abuse for 4 of my books on Goodreads - they read one, 9 LIVES OF SUMMER, for free thanks to MY generosity on NetGalley (which has NOT banned me - another lie there) - and claims they were SO traumatised by a cat death that they read about 7 more deaths to finish the book. LOL! ALL A PROVEN LIE THEN, ALL THE USUAL VICTIM POSE. So they loved the trauma so much they went back for more? LIAR EXPOSED AGAIN, all fake. Fake pain, fake autism, fake illness, fake disorders, fake pity party, FAKE author (the hater is not one - so ENVY may be the root of the hate campaign against me as I have published 10 books since 2010). ALL FAKE!!!
I can PROVE my abuser's review of my lovely poetry book THE LOVED ONES is fake - no-one bought the ebook or read more than 12 pages when THE LIAR claims they did, told police that LIE too. Ergo THIS INDIVIDUAL LIED TO POLICE. Very serious crime, that - lying to police. I CAN PROVE THE HATER DID JUST THAT, as publisher of my last 3 books via my own publishing house via Amazon KDP. I have access to FULL DATA of eBook sales, free or paid for, AND Kindle Unlimited page reads (only 12 page reads! SO the lie that the hater read The Loved Ones is PROVEN. QED), plus dates, locations, countries. I can also tell who accessed my author website, when, and where they are based - on certain dates (10th/11th September) there are spikes with many hits from north-east England. Hmmm. I LOVE digital data. Courts do too. It is real EVIDENCE. Not false accusation.
As the crybully hater intended, their constantly updating reviews (last time 18/8/24) got them high in their Goodreads feed to INCITE OTHERS to join her hate campaign against me in 1* reviews and comments, and so they reply to one fwend hater (who has not read the poetry book) as shown below. NEITHER has read the book. 'Honest reviews'. ROTFLMAO. And NO attempt to hide that 18/8/24 trash 1* review of THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER by reviewing loads of new books on one day will work - as I have screenshots! That is NEW ACTIVITY in law. Aimed directly AT ME on MY BOOK PAGE on Goodreads.
I, on the other hand, have not come at my abuser at all, not since early September 2023 and my SOLE reason for doing so was to try to STOP the obsessive hate campaign against me by what I now know is probably a deeply disturbed, deranged, obsessive hater who just WILL NOT STOP spewing abuse at me. Just to get my stalker hater abuser who was and is OBSESSED with me to LEAVE ME ALONE - my sole intention in responding to all their abuse.
Here the non-graduate barely-educated hater liar abuser stalking me also claims my qualifications are fake. YES REALLY! A serious allegation based on NO truth whatsoever and STILL THERE on Goodreads who enabled this hate campaign against me AND WILL PAY, as I am suing them in the US courts for substanial damages now, and parent company Amazon who are just as bad. And coming from an uneducated person who struggles to spell, delicious in its irony:
Reading the whole lot was not easy and with such highly claimed qualifications this doesn’t lined up with someone with a Degree in English Lit, Creative Writing or many other degrees. Even teaching to young students this isn’t the type of material they’d study from. It’s far to simplistic and basic compared to magnificent poetry available both classic and modern.
Also, my satirical novels (too educated and difficult for many) demand ALL people abide by the SAME rules and values - none promotes hate or racism at all. My hater took time to find my other novels on Goodreads, by PJ Vanston, on a SEPARATE page (SO the hater had to make an EFFORT to find me there and spew more abuse at me), then replies to reviews over 4-6 years old with snide nasty defamatory comments. AGAIN how can the hater say 'honest review' when they have not read the book! Proven liar. The opposite of 'honest'.
That’s a pretty honest review Jeni. I find it interesting you mention the character of a white man and his tears more than once. What gave you that impression?
SO racism and sexism from the deranged hater, against white male. And notice THAT TRADEMARK MALICIOUS MANIPULATION - referring to a stranger by her first name Jeni to get her onside. Textbook psycho, some would say. And THAT is inciting a third party to hate. Right there. REAL OBSESSIVE STALKING. Just one example of many on Goodreads and Twitter X. Nasty. Vindictive. Just SNIDE. Evil, even.
And again, the hater replied to a 2017 review by someone for my RASMUS - A TELEVISION TALE NOVEL (2016) by PJ Vanston:
Shockingly the themes of violence and ugly events are also in his children’s book The Nine Lives of Summer. I had to review it with a possible trigger warning for children and some adults due to the animal cruelty. If you look at social media posts the hatred of certain groups of society (racist is an understatement) spills over into his writing. I’ve read a lot of reviews of this and other books on Amazon and many say similar to yourself. I think I’ll read this to see for myself.
Defamation right there from my hater and the enabler GOODREADS, attempt to wreck my writing career and trash my reputation. An attempt to incite a third party to trash my 9 LIVES OF SUMMER book - under another name, Jem Vanston.
CLAIMING I am racist? THIS WILL BE READ IN COURT to show what you are, I PROMISE. I am no racist, but from your tweets we can see that you do seem to be rather anti-Semitic. YOU do not get to decide what is racist or anything else. AND YET you post on MY BOOK PAGES. Not yours. WHY? Ah yes you are a non-author so have no book pages SO YOU HIJACK MINE. 4 of them. You even have some pathetic website for your failed non-company that you never use. WHY NOT? WHY? LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Police have ALL PRINT-OUTS so they can see what you are now too with FULL evidence, not selected screenshots which you gave them. ALL screenshots which show YOU attacked me and I responded, only and always. YOU are the abuser; I am the victim of you. FACT.
You started a war, to attack and destroy me - you failed.
And you do not get to decide when the war ends. I do. And only when I have truth and justice (not revenge, as that is not my aim) and adequate compensation for the abuse & harms I have suffered will this end, which may take years, court cases, much media coverage. So be it. I am prepared. Looking forward to it actually.
AND THEN on Twitter - my hater started a new X account in October 2023 JUST TO SPEW ABUSE against me; she ended that account in July 2024. No matter, I have screenshots of EVERYTHING including the massive anti-Semitism and yet more incitement of third parties to join a hate campaign against me.
Here is just one example of many here to show how my hater incites third parties to join their hate campaign of revenge against me:
On @X, 18th April 2024. From my hater's account (now closed)
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Can you post my question for me? If an NT person was constantly saying online that your Autism was not real, was something many women use to get sympathy, one of many “invented” conditions how would you feel and respond? Will you stand with me against one man?
No need for my hater to mention my name on @X. EVERY MENTION of 'the author' or 'this man' means me, as is obvious in context, as the law understands too. This was done solely to incite third parties to hate on me, as with my hater's trash review of my poetry book and comments after my two PJ Vanston books, and all the 5000 words of abusive comments on MY BOOK PAGE on Goodreads after my THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER book. Nasty, but more than that.
Defamation includes: my hater accused me of threatening them and their son (DISGUSTING LIE, one repeated by police, which is a LIE from them too so that is legally actionable as well though police now accept I threatened no-one); my hater accused me and my books of causing trauma and being a threat and danger to children (disgusting lie); accused me of racism (who the hell is she to do that, being so uneducated?) and my books of promoting hate and racism (gosh, LIE LIE LIE - the opposite is true and still online in her comments on Goodreads as of August 2024); accused me of misogyny (yawn, but the twisted witch is too thick so cannot even spell the word); accused me of selling 'hardly any books' (PROVABLE LIE as only I can possibly know all my book sales); accused me of faking my qualifications and degree (LIE, and still online on Goodreads comments as of August 2024); accused me of faking my reviews from famous people (lie, I have physical evidence, email from Vera Lynn, letters etc); accused me of disability hate speech and crime - (just because I refused to OBEY the deranged maniac professional victim demanding I accept their SELF-diagnosis of 300 fake disorders, some not due to be invented until a week next Wednesday); accused me of targeting anyone who leaves a one star review of my book with a hate campaign (provable lie - I've had revenge reviews of 1* before though none by a PSYCHO of this level; indeed it is my hater who gets triggered by ONE 1* review for their pathetic horror short story effort a decade ago - that is why they targeted me on Amazon like the vengeful narcissitic personality disorder obsessive they are); accused me of ANIMAL CRUELTY (wow, just wow!) and of promoting it in my books (JUST because my STORY features a cat dying. ffs WHAT A LOON!). So all that, ALL OF IT, ready and prepared to reveal in court and in the media - who will LOVE THAT, especially when I reveal the false claim of racism from someone whose tweets shows they hate Israel and quite possibly Jews. An anti-Semite accusing me of racism, Yup.
The press is GONNA HAVE A FIELD DAY! Jewish press first. Then TV.
So here it is, the hater's LAST comment on my - MY - book page on Goodreads for THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER. The last of 16, and 5000 words of vile comments in total.
THIS from 2.12.24 on MY BOOK PAGE on Goodreads. Here it is in full:
4.12.23
2 days ago
Be aware if you give any of this
Author’s books a critical review you could be subjected to months of online abuse, threats, disgusting names (think of the worst and they are all there), hate speech and so much
more. Absolutely ridiculous hate campaign over one little review. I don’t want anyone to go
through it like he’s targeted me. It’s not like I could destroy his career like he’s stated when there are hardly any reviews anywhere for any of his books, very low
sales and reviews from years ago reposted over and over. Just be careful. I’ve not retaliated in anyway but if I shared screenshots with the world he’d be shown for what he really is. I don’t
know if his reaction to my one review is flattering? What a waste of months of energy, hatred, anger he has used up. But if you see the racism, mysogyby, hatred and
vile social media posts about many walks of society you see it’s not just at me. It’s at the world in general. Telling one woman who contacted me on Twitter that he messaged her years back
hoping she’d die from her cancer. He also said that as I’d died nearly twice in surgery (true) “third time lucky eh?”
Who posts ugly vile things under your account for your motivational quotes book! PR nightmare. Like anyone wants to buy that now. I realised a lot of people have come under attack, not just me. So I
hope he can get some healing genuinely for whatever has made him like this. In a prison of anger and hate. I’m proud I’ve walked the higher ground and never reacted,
responded, posted in response to any of it. Bullies eventually move on to the next victim when you are no fun to target. Just don’t let it be you. I’ve never ever in years of reading and
reviewing and promoting books, representing hundreds of Authors warned anyone of an Author. Never. That speaks volumes. Feel free to read any of them or read reviews of his other books on here or
Amazon if just this one isn’t for you. I read and reviewed his poetry book too. Didn’t like that either and explain in detail why.
Lies lies lies lies lies lies and lies and defamation RIGHT THERE. EVERY CLAIM A LIE - the hate campaign of revenge has ALL BEEN FROM MY ATTACKER as all evidence proves. "I've not retaliated at all"? ROTFLMAO! I was attacked by my hater; I responded. My hater states the OPPOSITE OF TRUTH! This is the 16th comment on my THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER bookpage, all abuse directed AT ME by name, SO TARGETED HARASSMENT by a stalker, 5000 words in total in 16 comments.
"I’m proud I’ve walked the higher ground and never reacted, responded, posted in response to any of it. "
That is SO very deeply dishonest, it's almost funny. LIES LIES LIES - I was attacked by this obsessive psychopath - I responded and replied ONLY. And the twisted witch just kept on and on - on MY book pages on Goodreads. MINE,. MY PAGES. Polluted by that filth. My hater ATTACKED ME and would NOT STOP despite my repeated requests. Nope, the obsessive harassing hater instead got MORE obsessed, trashed 4 of my books on Goodreads, added 2 trash reviews on Amazon out of SHEER MALICE and opened a Twitter X account JUST to hate on me. It seems actually that since early September 2023, my abuser has become SO obsessed by me, that hating on me across the internet on all platforms and trying to hurt me is her main job (well she has no other, being unemployable). Now THAT is stalking, right there. It really, seriously is. MY HATER IS AS OBSESSED WITH ME as any male stalker is of his victim. Think that film MISERY or BABY REINDEER. Deeply deranged behaviours. Pointless too.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED, in order:
My hater wrote a repulsive review of MY beautiful 9 LIVES OF SUMMER book (which all normal people love!) saying it and me were a threat and danger to children, and could traumatise readers. AGAINST Goodreads rules all that, so I complained to tham - 3 times. Shamefully the amoral Goodreads did nothing, did not remove the review as they should have - I now know that is coz the hater is a socalled 'top reviewer' (1300 free copy reviews in 12 years) so got prefential treatment from Goodreads/Amazon (that means I CAN SUE THEM for big 7 figure compo as they are not only negiligent but complicit in a hate campaign of revenge against me my the hater, their top reviewer).
So I replied to the hater's review, said why it was unacceptable, as it is. I did not know then that the reviewer was a PSYCHOPATH NARCISSIST and such people are triggered by any challenge to their opinions, as they have delusions of grandeur and think they matter.
And so the triggered hater then spent FOUR MONTHS spewing 5000 words of abuse against me after my 9 LIVES book on MY BOOK PAGE on Goodreads - the hater stalker CAME AT ME, harassed me, defamed me, spewed disgusting lies and abuse against me, real appalling allegations, listed elsewhere here. They would just not LEAVE ME ALONE - their behaviour was obsessive, persistent, unwanted. It was and is STALKING.
- cyber stalking (using the internet to harass someone)
The 4 criteria of that legally are
- Fixated: The perpetrator is fixated on the victim.
- Obsessive: The behavior is obsessive.
- Unwanted: The actions are unwanted by the victim.
- Repeated: The behavior is repeated over time.
Yup, that's my cyberstalker, right there, and am the victim of this deeply deranged hate campaign. I AM A VICTIM OF STALKING.
Maybe police will arrest, or a private prosecution possible if they refuse to act and do their duty. THIS is what I suffered on Goodreads for over a YEAR - up to 10,000 or words of abuse ON MY BOOK PAGES, targeted at ME by name from the cyberstalker, a really prolonged pattern of HARASSMENT aimed at causing ME alarm and distress, trashing my reputation, wrecking my writing career, hurting me as much as the malicious hater could and QUITE deliberate and malicious, and inciting third parties to join her hate mob against me. This behaviour was:
Fixated
Obsessive
Unwanted
Repeated
Then of course the hater conspired to get me banned from Goodreads by inciting third parties to hate on me & complain to them, did the same on Amazon & started a Twitter account specifically to spew yet more abuse at me inciting third parties to join them.
SO I could not reply to thousands of words of abuse aimed at me on MY BOOK PAGES on Goodreads, hence my responses on my author website - it is MY RIGHT TO REPLY to abuse. I did not start the abuse, the attacks, or anything. My liar abuser did. Evidence proves that.
The hater did not stop there. Oh no, they searched out my PJ Vanston books on ANOTHER page on Goodreads, and then incited those who posted reviews 5+ years ago to join the hate campaign of revenge against me. THEY ARE STILL THERE TO SEE.
Of course, the professional victim hater then mobilised police to join her hate campaign against me, based on the lie I threatened the hater and their son (police accept that is a lie now). That led to wrongful/malicious arrest, great alarm and distress to me, lost income, reputational damage, a massive waste of public money and police time - which WILL be paid for, I guarantee it. And then some.
ALL completely unnecessary and pointless, and ALL CAUSED by my abuser ATTACKING ME - and for what? WHY? Malice? Vengeance? NARCISSITIC PERSONALITY DISORDER in my vengeful stalker?
Yes, I responded, sometimes rudely. I am human, I was under attack being abused and defamed on MY book pages on Goodreads to which I COULD not reply as the hater incited others to complain and deliberatly get me banned by Goodreads, THE biggest author website in the world. I am SO suing them as they enabled the whole hate campaign against me, AN AUTHOR, by a NOTHING NON-AUTHOR reviewer on MY book pages for MONTHS and in fact over a year now! A million a month should do it to compo. IF ONLY Goodreads had applied their rules equally, they would have removed my hater's initial review and then all her comments and the ones still up there and then BANNED THE HATER (who will get banned in time, as I get reinstated, after court action)
SO, you see, I WAS ATTACKED, and responded. I attacked NO-ONE. I am innocent. My abuser/hater/stalker/attacker is guilty.
My intention in responding was ENDING the abuse, harassment, hate campaign of revenge against me. THAT IS IT. The INTENTION of my cyberstalker bully abuser was to incite hatred against me to cause me intense alarm and distress in a deranged campaign of obsessive revenge - all because I challenged a deeply malicious and defamatory review on Goodreads which they SHOULD have removed when I complained. My case is solid. QED. I will win, as the victim in all this.
This is me too:
The story so far.
1. I am not a racist.
2. I didn’t post a racist tweet.
3. My tweet did not incite violence against any protected characteristic.
9. This is all nonsense. Deeply sinister, frightening nonsense and wholly disproportionate police over-reach if you ask me.
10. Last night, I realised I no longer feel safe in my own country. A terrible moment.
As Elon Musk said, “This must stop.” It really must.
"Very low sales" for my books, the hater claims. YOU LITERALLY have no way of knowing that. None. SO that is a lie and defamation, 1 example of 12 or more, INCL your disgusting claim that I threatened you and your son (police reject that, so I can SUE YOU and use that as evidence). Only I KNOW my book sales and only I can. SO YOU ARE A PROVEN LIAR yet again. Police know this now. They may well want a word or two.
JUSTICE IS COMING, FOLKS! For all those who have attacked and persecuted me. I am VERY much looking forward to it.
WHY CAN YOU NOT LEAVE ME ALONE, BITCHES? The law will come for you all soon enough though. I have ALL the evidence I need.
WHY DID YOU TARGET ME WITH HATE AND SPEW THOUSANDS OF WORDS OF ABUSE AGAINST ME ON MY BOOK PAGES - MY BOOK PAGES. YOUR INTENTION WAS TO GET REVENGE BY ATTEMPTING TO HURT ME, CAUSE ME ALARM AND DISTRESS, TRASH MY REPUTATION, WRECK MY WRITING CAREER AND RUIN MY LIFE. I AM THE VICTIM OF HARASSMENT, NOT YOU! I am the victim of a psycho!
And you are STILL GOING, still posting hate on my Goodreads pages. More than a year now. Now THAT is serious stalking.
I have recently been praised for contacting social services about the possible threat against a vulnerable individual despite all the abuse and threats I have received, including from the police (and a MASSIVE complaint against officers is coming for that and more, as it is SO out of order). If anyone has ANY worries about a vulnerable or disabled person, they should report it to social services - it is good to do so, not bad and certainly not criminal in ANY way.
Better safe than sorry. My civic duty to report any suspicion I have of abuse of vulnerable individuals, as I see it.
AND by the way, searching for someone's address is NOT making a threat - an address is needed for legal action and by social services. No threats made by me - to anyone - EVER.
Below is the new activity on 18th August 2024. The first post by my hater was 28th August 2023. Wow. Just wow. my hater just cannot LEAVE ME ALONE. Talk about obsessive hate - lasted a year now.
A year of hate, abuse, harassment aimed at me. My cyberstalker hater does this to get the review high in its Goodreads feed, thus to incite third parties to join the hate campaign of revenge against me, like their trash 1* review (the ONLY one!), score my book badly without reading it and like this trash review. THAT IS TARGETED HARASSMENT. Inciting third parties to join a hate campaign - serious bullying and a possible criminal offence.
See the date bottom left, AUG 18 2024. Now the hater tries to hide that by reviewing loads of other books. But THIS is evidence:
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AND here is new activity on Friday 13th September 2024 for my poetry book THE LOVED ONES - unlucky for my stalker who has targeted my obsessively for OVER A YEAR now.
I can PROVE with publisher digital evidence from AMAZON KDP that the reviewer DID NOT buy or read the whole book, or via Kindle Unlimited page reads. BUT just 12 pages read, a sample.
Digital evidence, right there. Thanks. See this screenshot:
AND I can PROVE with digital evidence that this reviewer DID NOT read the Kindle version via Kindle Unlimited Membership. No VERIFIED PURCHASE indicated on Amazon so that proves no sale of the book AND no free copy. As PUBLISHER of this book as well as author, I CAN PROVE IT via digital data - only 12 page reads of the book, so maybe that is my abuser. Not the whole book though, 12 pages - a sample. I have DATES, locations, clever digital data PROVING my abuser is lying, and has lied, a lot. Admissable in court, Evidence that proves my obsessive hateful vengeful stalker LIED to police, the corrupt Durham police who will be exposed and their lackeys in South Wales. I cannot WAIT to expose all this, though I believe the hate has already been arrested and had laptop/tech confiscated. UNDER INVESTIGATION.
A year of abuse obsessively spewed at me on MY BOOK PAGES on Goodreads and Amazon. MY PAGES. Not yours, MINE. That is harassment, stalking, obsessive bullying nasty abuse, a hate campaign motivated by REVENGE, esp inciting their parties to join your hate mob. Illegal too, against criminal and civil law, as your intention to cause alarm and distress, to adversely affect an innocent men's life, income, writing career, reputation is clear.
My intention was always just to make my abuser GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME ALONE. Why can people not just mind their own business? WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?
I HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST RACISM, BIGOTRY AND HATRED ALL MY LIFE - MY BOOKS SHOW THAT, AS DOES MY LIFE. The systemically anti-Semitic corrupt police in Wales and England will pay dearly for what they have done, I guarantee it.
I shall FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT to clear my name. I shall NEVER NEVER NEVER give up. When I KNOW I am the right, I FIGHT and I WIN.
I am Israel. My hater who came at me starting a war is HamaSS. They will lose - badly. Because I never never NEVER give up, not when I know I am right, as I am here. I have been wronged and I shall right that, and fight for the truth and justice as the victim of a hate campaign by a deranged stalker believed and supported by the UK police, shamefully.
I am Trump, and will destroy my lying abusive enemies when they expect to win. Success is THE best revenge. It's coming! And soon.
Revenge is not my motive - truth and justice are. Bigly!
And I deserve due compensation for my significant and utterly unnecessary suffering, all the hurt caused to me, real harms and traums, ALL because one malicious individual decided to instigate and orchestrate an obsessive hate campaign of vengeance against me - because I challenged a deeply defamatory and deranged review of my because crossover cat book on Goodreads. How utterly absurd. SICK.
But be aware, I shall have NO mercy, in law civil and criminal - just like Israel. And, if necessary, I shall fight for years to get the compensation & justice I am due. If the obsessive stalker attacker continues to come at me then fine, I shall fight a war and destroy my enemy. I am Israel, as I said. Very fitting as I believe this whole thing was partly caused by anti-Semitism from my racist hater anyway.
I AM ISRAEL. My hater is HAMAS. I know who will win this war in the end. I do not care if it goes on for years and years. For ISRAEL & me:
This awful war has just begun
With many battles left to run;
But when all is said and all is done
The liars will have lost, and we shall have won!
Never forget:
You will face the most important decisions of your life only at your lowest moments. And tough times provide opportunity to make the biggest gains.
THAT will be true for me, for sure, and my gains are and shall be considerable. I look forward to being well compensated for the abuse, harassment, stalking, police bias and injury I have suffered and publicising my story, then the great British press will do the rest (their choice; I have NO INTEREST in stalking anyone and never ever have had, esp some deranged maniac loon obsessed with me whose behaviour, I believe, is a matter for the criminal as well as the civil law. WATCH THIS SPACE). PLUS I am turning my pain, the outrageous obsessive hate campaign of revenge I have suffered, into a novel (fiction inspired by my lived experience) which, I know, will be an international bestseller and probably a film/TV drama too. So I WIN! Get my income back through my writing AND the big 6 figure compensation I shall get from police (and at least 4 officers will face complaints and then who knows? Suspension, sanctions, sacking?) and 7 figures from Goodreads/Amazon for enabled a prolonged and persistent hate campaign of harassment against me and NOT removing the abuse or banning my abuser (because they have done 1300 free reviews, incl the fake review of my beautiful poetry book which the lying malicioud individual has not read or bought WHICH I CAN PROVE WITH DATA EVIDENCE as the publisher of it, and thus prove my abuser lied to police = a serious criminal offence, that).
I HATE BULLIES AND ALWAYS STAND AGAINST BULLIES WHEN OTHERS ARE BULLIED - BUT NOW I FIND MYSELF BULLIED AND DEFAMED, ABUSED AND LIED ABOUT BY VILE RACIST HATERS.
WELL I NEVER RUN AWAY FROM BULLIES. I run AT them.
I FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! I DO NOT CARE WHO THEY ARE.
HERE I STAND. I CAN DO NO OTHER.
JUSTICE IS COMING, FOLKS! AND SOON. AND IF YOU ARE GUILTY, YOU WILL PAY, IN MANY WAYS (LEGAL, FINANCIAL, MEDIA STORY).
TRUTH IS ON MY SIDE. AS IS GOD, THEY SAY.
I AM RIGHT AND THUS I SHALL WIN.
NO PASARAN!
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JUST TO SAY: Many thanks to the organisations and individuals for information, support & advice - Society of Authors, Free Speech Union (Toby and the legal team there with VERY helpful free advice), AFAF, CIEO, several Jewish organisations, journalist colleagues/contacts and many more, my solicitors Goldstones and more. Much appreciated. We shall win this thing and get justice done, as we all know. You can then all have a great story which exposes the extent of anti-Semitism and corruption in the UK, in the UK #twotierpolice too, and nails the abusers, names and shames them maybe - up to the free press, not me. I have harassed and abused no-one - I am the victim of a prolonged hate campaign of revenge, harassment and malicious communications from a deeply deranged and disturbed obsessive individual. They will rue the day when they are hoist by their own petard. It's coming, bitches and SOONER THAN YOU THINK. Then I shall be compensated for what has happened to me, and certain police officers will face disciplinary hearings, and the racist corrupt pigstink liars will end up sacked, we hope.
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ANYHOO, back to MY LIFE AS AN AUTHOR not a civil rights champion and hero fighting for free speech in my own country now ruled by the Woke Taliban and their enforcers, the corrupt racist institutionally anti-Semitic pc gestapo, it seems. 1984 is here and now.
I also now have some more short stories to add to the 30 or so I have written (8 or so published). Prepping 3 or 4 to submit to major competitions in the next couple of years. Completed a cracking one this year, 23 drafts done to tweak it, so that will be submitted to the biggest national competitions in future. Writing 4 or 5 new ones, cracking ideas.
I tend to avoid short stories - which is always where new writers start and which writing magazines & courses are obsessed with. WHY? Impossible to get em published, except in compilations no-one reads that many authors actually pay a fee to be included in. I've won awards for some of mine, of course - see the other tabs to read three or so. THE PRAGUE VIOLIN won me two cash prizes actually. Love it. There are 5 of my short stories on my website STORIES page. Top tab
I am now writing my novel about a psychowoman stalker, MY OWN PERSONAL BABY REINDEER. female Toxicity is ignored often but now is being exposed, and my FICTIONAL novel inspired by my lived experience will lead to my abuser being outed by the Great British press and TV I am sure - up to them, not me. HA HA HA!
60,000 words done now, ready to edit that and plan the final chapters. It COULD be a TV drama but I start with the novel, a short one, 75-80,000 words. Planning it out now. Done half the chapters now, present tense, immediate, scary the way a stalker psychowoman can manipulative and hate, so twisted and malicious. FUN to write though. Baddies are fun! And making sure the guilty and punished and horribly too is GREAT! It does not end well for the deranged hatemonger psychowoman malicious M...
AND IT IS MY RIGHT TO WRITE FICTION - it is to me incredible I was told by a police officer in an interview that I was not allowed to write fiction. WTF? Britain, 2020s. Or 1984? It is MY RIGHT to write fiction as it is anyone's, EVEN IF fiction is inspired by fact (as it all is).
Police abuse of me WILL be reported - in a formal complaint and by the literary press and national media too no doubt. Then I shall sue them - hard. To be told I am not allowed to write fiction as an author by a member of the pc gestapo. WTF? FOR SHAME. I do no want or seek fame, but so be it - I see it as my civil duty to do this, for the same of all, especially those who are creative. Freedom of expression MUST be defended at all costs. The New Puritan Age creep is a worry.
I have put my children's writing on pause for the time being but have two excellent middle-grade stories done and dusted, which received positive feedback from 2 publishers and 3 agents just before the pandemic. They will be published one day, for sure (in fact I have privately published 30 copies of one for friends, to see it in the world). I have at least 3 decent middle grade books sketched out too - I am never short of ideas. But I detest the sort of ISHOO-led preachy woke kids' books landscape of now - they are so mediocre, and fail to lift the literacy of kids which I think is almost criminal. They should try to WISE UP not DUMB DOWN. They should STOP preaching propaganda.
Also, kids' books can and MUST contain important issues, such as death and pain - and no, they do NOT need trigger warnings, and nor do old Disney films like Dumbo, Bambi and 101 Dalmatians. Anyone demanding a trigger warning needs a trigger warning tattooed on their forehead. Then they need to be put in a see-through plastic room full of plastic colour balls and left there while the rest of us behave like people used to be behave - NOT LIKE BABYBRAINED MORONS, in other words.
Kids are seriously stunted and abused really these days by being overprotected by hysterical ignorant people (women mostly) who think treating them like toddlers until teenage years is good. Not, it is bad and the CAUSE of great anxiety, depression and mental illness in kids who have NOT been allowed to go through the normal stages of childhood. As a result they lack all resilience and cannot cope, then get labelled 'autistic' and 'neaurodiverse'. These kids are SO hurt by their ignorant mollycoddlers. Overprotection is a form of child abuse.
Preaching in fiction is like Commie/Nazi propaganda in kids books too, or those religious books whose aim is to brainwash kids.
By the way, I know all about the Nazi period from my extensive research for my novel, and also my family history (my father was arrested by the Nazis in 1943 for slave labour, and even though his Flemish family was Catholic, his probable father was Jewish German, so I have Jewish heritage too, which makes me enormously proud). And I visited the USSR aged 11, had a Red Army soldier point a gun at me in Red Square no less. Communism and Fascism and two horns of the same goat.
SO my advice to all writers is this:
JUST TELL A STORY WELL!
THAT IS IT. There is no more.
A GOOD STORY WELL TOLD should be your aim, always. Nothing else.
That is what good books (and films) do. They do not start with a list of ISHOOS to tickbox and please the latest pc woke committee. I HATE books like that. They are, in a word, crap - dangerous crap too.
My advice to parents: RAID THE ARCHIVE. There are many superb children's books from the past free of the disease of the woke virus, so find them. LITTLENOSE books; PROFESSOR BRANESTAWM. Lots of top Scandi fiction by many authors, such as WOOF! and JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA.
Anyway, I write. It is what I do, and do well, even if I say so myself. What I write really MOVES people. That proves my success as an author of fiction, imho.
The modern word 'trigger' used by hysterics and loons came from psychiatry but any victim-posing BS merchant now claims everything is a 'trigger'. ALL that means in the context of books is that a story causes an emotional reaction in the reader. WELL, GOOD! That is the whole POINT of writing. DUH!
My GREAT diverse anti-racist book THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER is an emotional roller-coaster and I am SO glad that ALL the reviews of it are 4 and 5 stars. There is always a mentaloid psycho babyhysteric posting a 1* revenge review - they shame themselves with their spite no doubt inspired by envy.
If you really are an author, you write. You create. Always. That is who you are. That is who I am.
People like me do not retire.
And I shall never - NEVER - be silenced.
ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!
The Nine Lives of Summer is a heart-warming tale ideal for both children and adult cat lovers of all ages.
It is the purr-fect book for fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and A Cat Called Dog, as well as stories about refugees such as The Boy at the Back of the Class.
“A heart-warming tale with a life-affirming message.”
“Often funny, sometimes sad, always full of hope.”
One cat, nine lives and a quest to find a way home
Summer is a cat living happily with ten-year-old girl Sami and her family in Syria. Then the war comes.
Sami and her parents are forced to make the heart-wrenching decision to flee as refugees, leaving Summer behind.
On her journey through nine lives in a dozen countries, Summer discovers her purpose – to find Sami again.
The quest leads Summer all over the world, meeting diverse people from a vast array of cultures and backgrounds, through exciting adventures and heart-break, desperate struggle and survival. But she never ever gives up hoping and searching.
Will Summer ever find Sami, and be reunited with her family in her furever home once again?
ISBN 978-1-3999-4432-8 - Published by Two Fat Cats Publishing, 1st March 2023
Price £7.99 paperback; £3.99 eBook.
Available from Amazon and bookstores worldwide.
Author website: www.vanston.co.uk ; Twitter: @9LivesofSummer
ALSO I am making the first 50 pages or so, 8 chapters, available here FOR FREE: https://www.book2look.com/book/rpoTIljtSb
ENJOY!
MY TEN PUBLISHED BOOKS 2010-2023
Well here they are, the result of 15 years' hard work, almost half a million words, 10 books including a collection of poetry, 3 satirical novels, 4 cat novels/stories, a non-fiction quote book, and a Christmas poem picture book.
Thousands of hours' work; thousands in investment in myself and NOT a penny of public subsidy. I would have earned more on minimum wage stacking shelves, frankly.
Was it worth it? Yes and no. Yes for the enormous satisfaction of authoring and publishing real high-quality and worthwhile stories; no, financially and for the energy it has taken from my income-earning projects and business, and then the vile abuse from certain hateful reviewers with issues. BUT that is what dedication means.
It will be if the Nazi Crime Thriller novel ( a very psychological and original speculative story) I have just completed (1st draft) gets signed up by an agent/publisher for a series, with TV/film rights, for sure. It'd make a great movie - actually, my writing is all very cinematic so most of my books would make great films too (animation maybe for the cat stories).
But yes of course, it is a MASSIVE achievement and I am proud of the originality and high quality of all my books. Tbh despite sound commercial arguments, I have no interest in churning out genre ebooks in production-line-crime or romantic escapism genres as some do - but whatever floats your boat... They can work their side of the street, and I shall work mine.
All my books are in public libraries and The British Library. My pandemic poems are in the National Library of Wales and Museum of London 'Covid' archive collections for evermore...
I am pleased to announce the publication of my debut collection of poetry, THE LOVED ONES - A COLLECTION OF PANDEMIC POEMS ABOUT LOVE AND LOSS, by Jem Vanston, on 9th April 2022.
There are 54 poems in the collection, including 10 song lyrics - 9 have links to online demo recordings of the songs, so it's a real multimedia project! Most were written in 2020/21.
It's a diverse collection of poems, some darky funny, others very moving. Lots of poems about grief, bereavement, loss, death but also love - and hope.
Quite a few war poems here - First and Second World War poems, a Falklands poem (song), Viking, Roman, ancient warrior themes. Inspired by the war on Covid really but now sadly and tragically very timely as the war in Ukraine rages.
Two poems here are in the National Library of Wales Covid Collection - POEM OF THE PLAGUE YEAR and TWENTY-TWENTY: A YEAR IN THE LIFE (read them on the NEWS page of this website). The latter was also featured on That's Swansea Bay TV on November 5th 2020 (anyone interested can scroll back on Facebook to that clip), and also praised as 'poignant' by a representative of Her Majesty the Queen. It is most unusual for replies from royalty to include an opinion, so maybe the poem was read by our monarch. Who knows?
The paperback costs £8.99 - feel free to email me if you want to order a signed copy (acatcalleddog@hotmail.co.uk). The eBook is £3.99 - and the songlinks work better on there.
Here is the Amazon.co.uk link to the book (copy and paste):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Loved-Ones-Collection-Pandemic-Poems/dp/1399918087/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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1st SEPTEMBER 2021
I am proud to announce publication of my book of quotes:
'THINKING TIME: 365 inspiring, amusing and thought-provoking quotes to get you through the year'
£7.99 paperback - the perfect Christmas present!
Great for quotes for lessons, lectures, services, speeches. Also useful for developing 'Intelligent Mindfulness' - a quote a day for a year for a daily mindfulness focus. And you'll learn something!
Plenty of quotes from Ancient Greece/Rome/China; plenty of quotes from authors, artists, politicians, actors, musicians, film/pop stars too - as reflects my education and interests.
Lots of wise and witty quotes, and great fun too!
Plenty of quotes from people of all nationalities, faiths, races and women. But ALL quotes are there ON MERIT ALONE. I vehemently oppose the patronising racism/sexism of race/gender quotas + only included quotes I feel are worthy of inclusion in my book.
Glad to get fellow Dartford boy Mick Jagger there on his birthday in July, and Freddie Mercury on his birthday 5th September.
Other pop stars include John Lydon, Annie Lennox, Keith Richards, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon also in there, reflecting my musical background, and film stars such as Charlie Chaplin there too. Women include Amy Johnson, Victoria Wood, Oprah Winfrey and many, many more. Loads of authors and poets in there too, and various politicians, historical figures and thinkers.
I dislike slushy, schmaltzy, spiritual motivational quote books and there are so many other there, so avoided such huggy-wuggy touchy-feely fluffy slushy quotes! Though there are some quotes by saints - St David on 1 March - and plenty by various philosophers from all of human history and around the world.
Some have quotes on the day they died such as Dylan Thomas, Prince Philip, Amy Johnson and many more. Some readers may notice the clever choice of quotes for significant dates; others will not. It does not matter - the book still works if they do not!
Anyway, enjoy your THINKING TIME!
I promise this will be a book of quotes you go back to time and again over the years, because the quotes are so diverse, witty, wise, fun and classic - and for every occasion.
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MARCH 2020 - SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, my Swansea Campus Novel.
I am proud to announce that my new campus novel SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE was published on 28th March 2020.
Set in an unnamed and fictional university town in South Wales, my tale has a great deal to say about the education system, woke snowflake censorship, New Puritan culture, gender politics, Brexit and Remain issues, the EU, the state of the nation. Available from bookshops (though they all closed on 24th March!) and the usual online sellers (though there may be a delay in lockdown).
The BEST place to buy it is direct from the publisher who can fulfil orders quickly at any time, lockdown or no:
https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/somewhere-in-europe/
Somewhere in Europe is also available to buy direct from me - signed copy - for cover price + £3 postage, or from publisher website, or to buy or order from bookshops, or, if you must, Amazon (who snaffle 60% of cover price but at least stock books by smaller writers, unlike most bookstores).
This novel has been called 'The Lucky Jim of now'. Or, as it says on the back cover, "It's like a cross between Catch-22 and Lucky Jim for the Brexit Generation". It is dark satire and laugh-out-loud funny at times too, but with some very moving scenes and characters too.
Worried about where education is going and how freedom of speech is under threat these days? Then this is the novel for you!
The novel predicts BLM and the taking down of statues and portraits of white men too - it has already happened in The Town in the story.
As of 2024, this novel is borrowed more from UK libraries than any other of my books, just loads of lends - which suggests it may be on a booklist or two at universities really. I love the way this novel triggers those people it lampoons too, those smug self-righteous types who claim they are 'progressive' all while yelling slogans to destroy Israel and all Jews on the streets of London. The lack of self-awareness is just stunning. Regressive, intolerant and illiberal is what these bigots are, yet always accuse others of racism - well, they need to be challenged (watch this space on that).
Any reviewer or media person wanting any further information can contact me via this website or the publishers. Many thanks.
MEANWHILE...
My Christmas poem SANTA GOES ON STRIKE was published on 30th September 2018, as a colour-illustrated paperback and ebook. (Repromoted for Christmas 2019 with WH Smith book store signings! Maybe in the run-up to Christmas 2020 too...)
It's a funny, heart-warming, meaningful poem picture book with WONDERFUL illustrations (based on my specifications) for both children and adults, and ideally is to be read aloud by families at Christmas. A fitting tribute to my late mum Marjorie who loved my poem and used to read it aloud to her friends at the many Christmas lunches she used to go to every year. It always went down a storm! (I now have it translated into French too, for media in France/Canada).
Paperback widely available online, but eBook not available on Amazon (they do not support fixed-file layout for some reason) so only available on Kobo or Apple or the online bookshop of the Cardiff publishers:
https://www.rowanvalebooks.com/book/santa-goes-on-strike
PERFECT for a Christmas present for both children and adults!
"A modern-day classic!" "A real gem!" "delightful"
Please see the REVIEWS page (top menu) for all the wonderful reviews and feedback for SANTA GOES ON STRIKE - which includes some very famous people too! Thanks to them for their replies! Much appreciated. Odd that strangers show more interest than local media or bookshops here in Swansea, but I guess that explains why we didn't win CITY OF CULTURE for 2021. Well done Coventry - you deserve it.
I shall be promoting SANTA GOES ON STRIKE in the run-up to Chrismas 2019 due to popular demand and the wonderful reviews. Signings at branches of WH Smith, definitely - updates nearer the time. But probably Swansea, Llanelli, Carmarthen, maybe Cardiff, possibly even branches in England. Watch this space.
Out 31st August 2017, A CAT CALLED DOG 2 - THE ONE WITH THE KITTENS was finally published.
If in the UK, buy it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cat-Called-Dog-One-Kittens/dp/1786293382/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1504178160&sr=8-7&keywords=Jem+Vanston
Or here: http://www.austinmacauley.com/book/cat-called-dog-2-one-kittens
Suitable for both children and adults. No need to read the first book to understand and enjoy this one. Excellent reviews in Cat World, The Bookbag, NetGalley etc.
Or order from your bookshop. ALSO available at UK libraries - after SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE this is my most borrowed book from them, in the 2023-24 year (just got my PLR stat form!)
If in USA or outside UK, your own country's Amazon will be stocking it.
Jem Vanston AKA PJ Vanston is also author of the satirical campus novel Crump (Troubador:2010), cat lover novel A Cat Called Dog (Troubador:2013), plus the illustrated children's/crossover version of A Cat Called Dog (Austin Macauley:2015) - and A Cat Called Dog 2 (out 31/8/2017). Occasional writer of short stories and winner of prizes too. Author of Christmas picture book (for all ages) Santa Goes On Strike (2018).
I'm also a published song writer (music and lyrics) and musician (piano/keyboards/bass guitar), and have written over 100 songs. Listen to some of my demos here: https://soundcloud.com/user-217675148
PJ Vanston is the author of a new scathing satire on the television industry, the BBC and reality TV: Rasmus - a television tale (Troubador: October 2016). This may soon be optioned by the biggest film agency in the USA. Order via Amazon:
http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=4061 (author page)
REVIEW (4 stars!) here: http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Rasmus:_A_Television_Tale_by_PJ_Vanston
To order the illustrated children's version of A Cat Called Dog by Jem Vanston, please use the following information:
Paperback (£6.99) ISBN: 9781784559595
Hardback (£12.99) ISBN: 9781784559618
Also available in all decent national book shops now.
The original 2013 edition of A Cat Called Dog can be purchased here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cat-Called-Dog-Jem-Vanston/dp/1780885598
To hear radio interviews click on the sound files on the left side of this webpage:
http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=2177
My first novel - a dark campus satire called Crump - is sold out of paperback (hurrah!) but still available in e-book format + still selling:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crump-P-J-Vanston/dp/1848762852
A sequel will be out in 2020/2021.
Here is my author page on one of my publishers' websites:
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COMING SOON: my new psychological thriller about a deranged maniac psychowoman cyberstalker who obsessively pursues and targets an innocent author with a malicious prolonged hate campaign motivated by bare twisted vindictive revenge, enabled and aided by corrupt racist police.
Think MISERY meets BABY REINDEER meets BRIGHTON ROCK. Yes, really! Oh yeah!
Watch this space in 2025/6 and beyond!
I am proud to announce that my 10th published book, The Nine Lives of Summer, my new crossover cat story for ALL ages, was published 1st March 2023 via Two Fat Cats Publishing - on the 10th anniversay of the publication of my much-loved cat novel A Cat Called Dog. Top reviews:
"A heart-warming tale with a life-affirming message."
"Often funny, sometimes, sad, always hopeful."
This richly diverse crossover story for both kids AND adults is a life-affirming, hopeful read an exciting emotional rollercoaster which really does move & touch so many readers, makes them laugh and cry, or so they tell me in fanmail!
The story starts in Syria, where the war forces a family to flee, then travels to a dozen countries (Australia, India, Japan/China, Greenland, USA/Canada, Italy, Spain, Wales) through the nine lives of Summer, (and, logically, eight deaths), following the cat's adventures, joys and sorrows via a vast array of diverse cultures, settings and peoples. How anyone can claim it can traumatise readers and promotes animal cruelty or racism is beyond me - some seriously disturbed people out there, projecting their problems onto my lovely storybook!
For review copies or interview requests, email acatcalleddog@hotmail.co.uk or contact via Twitter @9LivesofSummer or via this author website.
My debut collection of poetry THE LOVED ONES - A COLLECTION OF PANDEMIC POEMS ABOUT LOVE AND LOSS was published 9 April 2022. It comprises 54 poems; including 10 song lyrics with 9 online links to the demo recordings provided via links in the book. Two poems are in National Museum Covid Archives: POEM OF THE PLAGUE YEAR and TWENTY-TWENTY: A YEAR IN THE LIFE, which was featured on Swansea TV and was called 'poignant' by a representative of Her Majesty the Queen.
Available online worldwide, Amazon etc, or in Harrisons, Uplands and Cover to Cover, Mumbles, or from me direct (most of my poem book sales happen that way). As owner of TWO FAT CATS publishing, I can see via wonderful digital data who has (& who has not) bought the ebook or read digital pages of it, when, and also where they are. Yup.
So, ignore the malicious revenge reviews on Goodreads and Amazon by a sad hateful reviewer who I can prove has not even read the book. The prolonged obsessive hate campaign aimed at me by a deeply deranged cyberstalker individual for over a year incl 10,000 words of abuse on MY book pages (4 of them) on Goodreads (who failed to remove the defamatory abuse, despite it breaking their own rules), Amazon (ditto)& Twitter has been insane, disturbing, and has caused me alarm and distress which WILL be paid for, I guarantee it.
On the plus side, this malicious unprovoked obsessive vengeful attack has inspired the female stalker novel HARMS I'm writing at the moment! The law and the media will expose this all in future, as defamation and hate campaigns of bullying, harassment and bare malicious revenge. Not on, and not legal. WATCH THIS SPACE. Justice is coming, folks!
"THINKING TIME - 365 Inspiring, Amusing and Thought-provoking quotes to get you through the year" (2021), my diverse quote book, still sells a load on eBook every year, worldwide. Intelligent Mindfulness, yes, but also with funny, insightful, INTELLIGENT quotes from individuals from throughout history up to the present day . To dip into, read through or use for mindfulness daily, or for education (no goo goo gaga fluffy slushy quote book this). An educated quote book a cut above most of the rest (I hate slushy psychobabble woowoo quote books). Still sells well worldwide in eBook format with no promotion from me at all.
On 28th March 2020 my satirical campus/Brexit novel was published - my 7th book. SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE ('Crump 2') is a real epic - funny, moving and timely. A state of the nation novel which has something to say. "A brilliant satire of wokery at UK universities and cancel culture", which predicts so much (riots etc). Called "A masterpiece" by Professor Eric Kaufman. Probably my best-written novel too. Unfortunately published in the same week as Pandemic Lockdown SO that scuppered that then - such is life! I am stoical about such things because the book EXISTS and will do for evermore as a novel of our times. LIFE now is imitating art - I deal with campus anti-Semitism and more in this novel. But together with its prequel CRUMP (2010) it is a classic campus novel all interested in the genre just have to read.
My satirical novels CORRECTLY predicted the RIOTS in the UK, 2011 and 2024, growing anti-Semitism and Islamist extremism too - life definitely apeing art. CRUMP (2010); RASMUS (2016, a reality TV novel); CRUMP 2 - SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE (2020) are a loose trilogy, a real STATE OF THE NATION triumph, as one reviewer stated. Read them and weep, and laugh, and cry, or be triggered into tamping like a boohoo baby if you want. LOL! Your choice.
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