FAKE REVIEWS EXPOSED!

I love getting reviews. CORRECTION: I like getting HONEST reviews by people who have actually read my books.

However, there are always some who leave FAKE reviews, trash 1 star revenge reviews, often after I have disagreed with them online re politics (but I SHALL NOT EVER be silenced).

Or sometimes trash 1 star fake reviews are just from deranged obsessive hater cyberstalkers whose motive is bare malice, revenge and yes, racism (anti-Semitism).

Easy to spot fake reviews - NO 'verified purchase' PROVES a review is FAKE really. So many on Goodreads & Amazon on my 10 books, by the SAME reviewer, so proven targeted abuse motivated by malice only.

BUT...I published my last 3 books via my own publishing company (so NOT self-published then) so that means I have access to FULL digital data of all sales, ebooks and page reads worldwide with dates too.

And THAT means I CAN PROVE that certain reviewers DID NOT buy or read my poetry collection - I would swear to that in courtand provide evidence (I have full digital data). SO the 1 star review below is a malicious lie. FRAUD. Trolling. TARGETED Harassment and hate.

This one star trash review (posted 13/9/24, well over a year after the first abusive review by the same individual, motivated by anti-Semitism maybe) TRIES to appear genuine, by quoting a poem. BUT that poem is available in the Amazon sample, or the first 12 pages someone read on Kindle Unlimited Reader.

So this review is a lie, a fraud, a fake revenge review by someone targeted me with a prologed hate campaign of harassment to try and adversely affect my sales and wreck my writing career - and I can prove that with digital data. I CAN PROVE THAT. With evidence. IN COURT & the media.

THIS is a lie, from the GOODREADS review (this sentence added after 23 December 2023 when the reviewer was challenged by police as NO VERIFIED PURCHASE shown here on on Amazon, yet the reviewer told police they had bought & read the poetry book THE LOVED ONES.

Here is the proven lie: "I read the Kindle version of this via my Kindle Unlimited membership, you can get it in paperback also."

SHAME on amoral Goodreads/Amazon for NOT removing such nasty, malicious, dishonest fake reviews & disgusting defamatory comments - 10,000 words of them. I HAVE ALL ON SCREENSHOTS. There may well be future legal action against website enabling a hate campaign and defamation against me, including racist hate, anti-Semitism.

The reviewer Katy here DID buy and read the book, and gave it 5 stars in the ONLY 'honest review' here on Goodreads. Most, but not all, reviews are honest like this. Almost all 1 or 2 star reviews are malicious fake reviews by haters. SHAME on Goodreads/Amazon for doing NOTHING to remove such abuse even when reported to them. 

Btw Most sales of my THE LOVED ONES poetry collection are in paperback direct from me. I did not write or publish these 54 poems for big sales; the book is in The National Library of Wales and the Museum of London, and I got praise from many incl. the royal household & even The Queen who called one poem "TWENTY-TWENTY: A YEAR IN THE LIFE" 'poignant' in early 2021. That is enough, thanks!

My poems are also read at funerals and memorial services. Very British that, black humour, gallows humour, comic relief: As MARK STEEL recently wrote "There's nothing more amusing than puncturing the pomposity of a situation, which is why I don't think I've ever been to a funeral where there's not been a really good joke because someone has said something outrageous." 

I was delighted to learn that some of my poems are used in the education system, at schools, colleges and universities, in lessons in various subjects - English, History, PSE, Politics. An honour, that.

BTW the reviews posted here are PUBLIC DOMAIN on my Goodreads book pages (look at them and the abusive hateful defamatory comments - most remain) as are all reviews I post here (from Amazon too). PUBLIC DOMAIN. So it is MY RIGHT and the RIGHT of anyone to post them anywhere at all. INCLUDING HERE on my site.

I post the 2 reviews here to show the contrast between an HONEST review by someone who has bought and read my poetry collection THE LOVED ONES, and a malicious dishonest review who has NOT bought or read the book. I expose it all here, the lies from the liars.

Fraudulent fake malicious dishonest revenge reviewers could always REMOVE their filthy dishonest reviews and lies from MY book pages. Up to them. Over 18 months now since these fake malicious reviews and comments (10,000 words of them from ONE malicious obsessive vengeful reviewer) were posted on MY book pages on GOODREADS and AMAZON - some may call that HARASSMENT and TARGETED HATE. But what can an author do? Faker haters gonna hate. Sad.

Plenty of evidence/screenshots to use in law/media no matter what. I CANNOT WAIT to expose all this. WATCH THIS SPACE.  

The trash reviews with NO VERIFIED PURCHASE appeared on the SAME DAY in October 2023 on both Goodreads and Amazon - the date still there on Amazon 23 October 2023. The first review was 2nd  October 2023,. EVIDENCE HERE:

(GOODREADS 1* trash REVIEW 2.10.23 THE LOVED ONES)

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"October 2, 2023

I thought this would have empathy and emotion for all those that lost someone during the COVID pandemic. Far too many lives gone. This was an opportunity to write something that gets to the heart of the trauma that those left behind would indeed still be feeling years on.

What is very unpleasant and distasteful is the way humour, dark humour is included. It’s not required and very out of place. I’d not like to have that included if I’d lost a loved one. I’d find it upsetting to read. The poems themselves don’t flow and are disjointed." etc etc etc

The reviewer has edited/renewed the fake review on Goodreads multiple times (20 maybe), last time September 2024 (when interestingly someone did a KENP read of all 192 pages of THE LOVED ONES - a clear attempt to deceived and hide the EVIDENCE the Amazon review (like the Goodreads fake review) was ORIGINALLY posted in October 2023 when ONLY 12 pages of THE LOVED ONES were read - very few read poetry book reads esp on KENP Kindle page reader SO really easy to spot who did. Just one. We know who...

This line was added to the GOODREADS review of THE LOVED ONES when police challenged the reviewer's claim to have read the book when they just read a sample. This is a LIE. No more than 12 pages read via Kindle Unlimited KENP reads in october 2023):

"I read the Kindle version of this via my Kindle Unlimited membership, you can get it in paperback also. "

Someone read all 192 pages on Kindle Page Reader in September 2024, BUT if that is this reviewer reading the whole poetry book (it could be someone else), odd that they can supposedly write an 'honest' review on Goodreads/Amazon in October 2023 when only 12 pages read on KENP, a full 11 months before the malicious vengeful revenge reviewer posted their first review on 2nd October 2023. GOTCHA. With evidence. PROOF the review is a lie & fake. Unless you can present a time machine in court when you are exposed as someone who lied to police...

Btw the trash 1* review is dated 23rd October 2023 on Amazon, still there, and the original Goodreads 1* trash review too was from 2nd October 2023, PROVING the reviewer MALICIOUSLY posted a trash review to harm the author in October 2023, when the reviewer had NOT even bought the book or read it, no more than 12 pages as a sample, which PROVES it is a dishonest malicious fake review and that the reviewer is a malicious liar.

By the way, I have screenshots of EVERYTHING - I mean EVERYTHING, 10,000 words of abuse. This is EVIDENCE to be handed to police and courts to prove this reviewer lied to them, which is very serious - PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE, making a false report to police, withholding evidence and more. EVIDENCE is beautiful, isn't it? Here is the AMAZON review dated 23/10/23:

DIGITAL EVIDENCE VIA AMAZON KDP FOR PUBLISHERS

And here is the attempt by the reviewer to cover-up the lies and fraud of the targeted harassment of me, with trash 1* reviews on MY book pages on GOODREADS (x4) and AMAZON (x2) for books this reviewer has not bought or read. THE LOVED ONES got a trash 1* review after the reviewer read 12 pages, a sample, as available on Amazon, which is EXACTLY what I told the deluded police. They are wiping the scales from their eyes now, see I am the victim of a malicious indidvidual with a grudge who lied to them to get revenge on me. Well note how the present review for THE LOVED ONES on GOODREADS is from UNLUCKY FOR SOME Friday 13th September 2024 - which is a NEW review, harassment and malicious comms aimed directly at me in a hate campaign that started on 28th August 2023. Over a year of hate, proven with EVIDENCE.

Maybe this reviewer read or at least did KENP page reads and paid for all 192 pages in September 2024. It could be someone else of course.

BUT SORRY, LIAR, that KENP 192 page reads 11 months after your disgusting malicious vengeful review on Amazon and Goodreads (on 2 October 2023) does not erase and delete your dishonest fake review from October 2023. That PROVES you a liar who deliberately and maliciously harassed me obsessively in and from October 2023, with 10,000 words of TARGETED abuse, on MY BOOK PAGES on Goodreads/Amazon, most from 28/8/23 to 23/12/23 BUT more renewed/edited fresh reviews on Goodreads until April 2024 for THE NINE LIVES OF SUMMER (for malicious bullying reasons, just to incite others to join the hate mob).

EVIDENCE IS BEAUTIFUL - it proves liars to be liars. Very serious offence to lie to police. And yes, I shall press charges as should they. JUSTICE IS COMING.

There is nowhere to hide and old fake malicious trash reviews cannot be undone by buying the book almost a year later! FOOL!

See in the screenshot below how someone (we all know who!) bought all 192 page reads of THE LOVED ONES in September 2024 then updated the review of it on Goodreads (NOT on Amazon which is dated 23rd October and was posted first there in the first week of October 2023 as the first Goodreads fake trash review was - I HAVE SCREENSHOTS AND EVIDENCE OF THAT), to try and pretend the review is honest and the reviewer read the poetry book before the trash review. ALL A LIE.

Dates matter. EVIDENCE! Yet more attempts to pervert the course of justice here then. Quite a habit for some eh?

Below is the tweet from James McVey of The Vamps, a pop star who loves cats, so liked my A CAT CALLED DOG book then!

Above are photos of me with our rescue cats Bumble and Honey Cat, plus other snaps of cats with A Cat Called Dog sent in by fans around the world.

Details of all photos are under them (just click on the photo); if you don't want your photo or image to be on here, just email me via the contact page and I'll take it down asap. Thanks.

There are some photos here of Dartford, Kent, my home town, and my old school Dartford Grammar, plus the Rolling Stones plaque at Dartford Station.

Also some pics from my book signing at WH Smith, Llanelli, on Saturday 31st October 2015.

And some shameless selfie pics of the 2013 and 2015 editions of my book A Cat Called Dog on tour in Italy - Rome, Bologna and Tuscany - and The Vatican in 2015, plus Genoa, Santa Marguerrita, Rapallo, Potofino, and Florence in 2017.

Feel free to email me photos with A Cat Called Dog (either edition) + your cats or in places of interest + I shall put them up here!