Great summary; it’s a shame that I have not heard about Lee but several friends have told me about how great Gaiman is. I did not know that he is a Scientologist but it makes perfect sense; a predatory gamma male formed by a predatory religious group. Better to refer to it as a legal group as you do, since the bloom is long off the rose as far as any genuine religious belief. I sincerely hope that the leader ends up in jail where he belongs.
There are a couple of sayings (imprecisely remembered) by Bob Jones, Sr. which occasionally come back to me to remind me of the path to being a better man. One of them is: Gratitude is the flower that lives the shortest in the heart of man. The other, less applicable to this article is: Do right, even though the stars fall, do right!
Speaking as Tanith's husband, I want to thank you deeply for this. I was warning about gaiman 30+ years ago but because of his connections I got shrugged off, even laughed at. Not so funny now, is it. To quote J.K Rowling: 'The literary crowd that had a hell of a lot to say about Harvey Weinstein before he was convicted has been strangely muted in its response to multiple accusations against Neil Gaiman from young women who'd never met, yet - as with Weinstein - tell remarkably similar stories.' I am so grateful for Joanne saying that. So I ask where are all the publishers, editors, agents, P.R folk, smiley glad hander author buddies UK/US, cover artists, collaborators, artists that illustrated his stuff, inkers, colourists, letterers, film companies, backers, actors - David Tennant and Martin Sheen anyone - where are all the Dr. Who teams who worked with him, all the podcasters and lets not forget all of the obligatory professional gothic super model groupies with their convention hotel room blowjobs. Yes, you. You know who you are. Where are they all, where is the outrage, the disgust. Oh, it's all gone So very quiet, hasn't it. Fuck all of you, even people we were good friends with, some who even professed love who have chosen to say nothing. Karma is as Karma does. And to answer a question I've seen for the last few weeks since this shitstorm kicked up: Why didn't Tanith take legal action against him. For One: neither of us wanted to look at let alone read any of his stuff, so didn't know. For Two, even if we had known of his 'alleged' vile plagiarism, we couldn't afford to do anything legally as for the last 13 years of Tanith's life when she was dying (and still writing) of various cancers, side effects of endless chemotherapy, radiotherapy and useless medications, all of our money was spent on medical expenses, remortgaging our beautiful home 3 times and just keeping her alive when this fucking maggot glowed and all those cunts were bowing down to their 'master'. Rot all you cowards who haven't spoken up for Tanith and won't. You all know who you are.
Neil Gaiman was, and is, both a literary fraud and a literary mediocrity. There is substantial reason to suspect that even his reported sales success is fake, as there appear to be significant similarities between his "bestselling" status and L. Ron Hubbard's.
Tanith Lee was one of the greatest authors of SF/F fiction who ever lived and more people should know that. Back in 2013, I rated her BOOK OF THE DAMNED as the #6 best fantasy novel ever written. And given how GRR Martin has lost the plot, I'm tempted to move it up to #5, past A GAME OF THRONES.
"How could he possibly acknowledge Tanith Lee as creating what he had to view as his self creation?"
Thanks, Herald. You insights are much appreciated.
Great summary; it’s a shame that I have not heard about Lee but several friends have told me about how great Gaiman is. I did not know that he is a Scientologist but it makes perfect sense; a predatory gamma male formed by a predatory religious group. Better to refer to it as a legal group as you do, since the bloom is long off the rose as far as any genuine religious belief. I sincerely hope that the leader ends up in jail where he belongs.
In a way, the reality of the hollow man is darker that what either author ever wrote.
There are a couple of sayings (imprecisely remembered) by Bob Jones, Sr. which occasionally come back to me to remind me of the path to being a better man. One of them is: Gratitude is the flower that lives the shortest in the heart of man. The other, less applicable to this article is: Do right, even though the stars fall, do right!
Excellent move to Substack.
"born into a cult that believed a person could become super-powered by channeling former lives"
Wouldn't you want to channel the ones who weren't strapped to volcanoes and blowed up?
Tanith Lee is one of those I need to look into.
Speaking as Tanith's husband, I want to thank you deeply for this. I was warning about gaiman 30+ years ago but because of his connections I got shrugged off, even laughed at. Not so funny now, is it. To quote J.K Rowling: 'The literary crowd that had a hell of a lot to say about Harvey Weinstein before he was convicted has been strangely muted in its response to multiple accusations against Neil Gaiman from young women who'd never met, yet - as with Weinstein - tell remarkably similar stories.' I am so grateful for Joanne saying that. So I ask where are all the publishers, editors, agents, P.R folk, smiley glad hander author buddies UK/US, cover artists, collaborators, artists that illustrated his stuff, inkers, colourists, letterers, film companies, backers, actors - David Tennant and Martin Sheen anyone - where are all the Dr. Who teams who worked with him, all the podcasters and lets not forget all of the obligatory professional gothic super model groupies with their convention hotel room blowjobs. Yes, you. You know who you are. Where are they all, where is the outrage, the disgust. Oh, it's all gone So very quiet, hasn't it. Fuck all of you, even people we were good friends with, some who even professed love who have chosen to say nothing. Karma is as Karma does. And to answer a question I've seen for the last few weeks since this shitstorm kicked up: Why didn't Tanith take legal action against him. For One: neither of us wanted to look at let alone read any of his stuff, so didn't know. For Two, even if we had known of his 'alleged' vile plagiarism, we couldn't afford to do anything legally as for the last 13 years of Tanith's life when she was dying (and still writing) of various cancers, side effects of endless chemotherapy, radiotherapy and useless medications, all of our money was spent on medical expenses, remortgaging our beautiful home 3 times and just keeping her alive when this fucking maggot glowed and all those cunts were bowing down to their 'master'. Rot all you cowards who haven't spoken up for Tanith and won't. You all know who you are.
Neil Gaiman was, and is, both a literary fraud and a literary mediocrity. There is substantial reason to suspect that even his reported sales success is fake, as there appear to be significant similarities between his "bestselling" status and L. Ron Hubbard's.
Tanith Lee was one of the greatest authors of SF/F fiction who ever lived and more people should know that. Back in 2013, I rated her BOOK OF THE DAMNED as the #6 best fantasy novel ever written. And given how GRR Martin has lost the plot, I'm tempted to move it up to #5, past A GAME OF THRONES.