Bad Art Friend

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry, but the more and more I read about this, the more it becomes crystal clear that Sonya Larson was absolutely the villain in this, and her larger posse of writer friends were absolutely terrible, and enabling.

[Anonymous]

Also, it boggles the mind that no one is pointing out the sheer irony of Celeste Ng inundating her Twitter feed with all these tweets about donating to Afghan refugees, all while talking shit about Dorland and making fun of her FOR YEARS behind her back for being fake-altruistic.

[Anonymous]

I think there is a bigger issue that they haven't really looked at

Dawn is from Iowa and grew up poor. She may have gone to Harvard but was unpublished and pretty unsophisticated and always harping on about her roots.

Sonya was sophisticated and successful. She thought she could fuk Dawn over, make a big joke about it in her writers group and get away with it.

Sonya underestimated the grit of the poor and more so, the deep seated resentment of the poor and unsuccessful. That's. why she was sued - before they even discovered the plagiarism of the "letter".

Both are losers, sad, nasty women. I wish I'd never read it. And I'm a professional writer who has worked with other writers for the past 30 + years, as a writer and an agent and I know about copyright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, it boggles the mind that no one is pointing out the sheer irony of Celeste Ng inundating her Twitter feed with all these tweets about donating to Afghan refugees, all while talking shit about Dorland and making fun of her FOR YEARS behind her back for being fake-altruistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, it boggles the mind that no one is pointing out the sheer irony of Celeste Ng inundating her Twitter feed with all these tweets about donating to Afghan refugees, all while talking shit about Dorland and making fun of her FOR YEARS behind her back for being fake-altruistic.

Like, does Celeste not see how much of a clown she's looking like in all of this? My god, the lack of self-awareness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous that anyone would take Larson’s side.
She plagiarized. What else is there to say?
And all these writers are defending it?
Is this how they all write? They just mooch off of unknown writers? They seem so blasé about it, they must all do it.

No. I wold never do this. I am a published author with a major big 5 publisher -- albeit not literary fiction, I write thrillers -- and I would never do this and none of the other thriller/mystery writers I know have done anything like this as far as I know. And yes, we talk a lot about where we get ideas etc.

We are all chitchatty on social media (I am talking some bestselling authors here) and everyone is very kind and no one punches down like this. At all.

I find this behavior shocking. But I am older than these women -- in my fifties.

[Anonymous]

Man there are a BUNCH of writers who I have lost respect for in the aftermath of this. So much mental gymnastics to justify why Larson's bad behavior is actually fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, it boggles the mind that no one is pointing out the sheer irony of Celeste Ng inundating her Twitter feed with all these tweets about donating to Afghan refugees, all while talking shit about Dorland and making fun of her FOR YEARS behind her back for being fake-altruistic.

Like, does Celeste not see how much of a clown she's looking like in all of this? My god, the lack of self-awareness.

I hope all the snarky fun all these jerks had was worth it! Their kids will google them and learn their parents, men and women, are catty b1tches. And yes, obviously dawn is a sad and incredibly needy character.

[Anonymous]

Celeste Ng has managed to come out looking like the worst one in this and that is quite the feat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Celeste Ng has managed to come out looking like the worst one in this and that is quite the feat

Real race to the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where can I actually read the short story, entitled “The Kindest” by Sonya Larson?

Ooh thanks to PP now I Can read it! https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.206189/gov.uscourts.mad.206189.1.3.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, it boggles the mind that no one is pointing out the sheer irony of Celeste Ng inundating her Twitter feed with all these tweets about donating to Afghan refugees, all while talking shit about Dorland and making fun of her FOR YEARS behind her back for being fake-altruistic.

I assume she’s simultaneously texting her friends about how the Afghan refugees are total butterfaces.

[Anonymous]

As someone with kidney disease I'm just here to say Team Dawn all the way.

When all is said and done, she GAVE A KIDNEY and saved a life.

These catty biotches did what exactly?

[Anonymous]

100% on Dawn's side now. I don't care how socially inept one comes off as; it's infinitely better than being mean, cruel, dishonest, and fake.

Another wrinkle:

[Anonymous]

Whoah her writing is baaad! She is obviously as successful as she is b/c of connections.



She wakes up from surgery and her husband wraps his arms around her back?? Not if you just had a kidney transplant!!!