Zemy96 Strikes Again

We've been very quiet lately. Honestly there hasn't been much to report. Carroll Bryant is supposedly on vacation and his recent posts are less than thrilling.

However, we did notice this today on STGRB and decided to investigate further. It's a terrible photo, so please be warned. We didn't think too much of it until we clicked through to the link and we weren't expecting to see something done by Carroll Bryant.

The link takes you to a brand-new blog that belongs to Zemy96, which we have uncovered and believe is Carroll. This is the only post on the site:

Isn't he so nice? We don't know how Carroll or CB doesn't consider this to be bullying. This comment was also left underneath the photo:

Whatever, dude. We guess bullying is only bullying when something is being done or said to you. Remember, this is a guy who is in his 50's. We think he needs to put on his big boy panties and grow the fuck up. Who does things like this? Carroll Bryant does.

The above screen grab is from Carroll's blog from another post that we found interesting. Here he admits to checking out Jude in the beginning of their "relationship," even though he claims he was never into her like that. Then he admits that he routinely watches all of Jude's videos she has on her blog. That's quite stalkerish, wouldn't you agree?

Carroll, with perverts like you hanging around her blog, why WOULDN'T Jude want to cover up her body?

Carroll Bryant Hits a New Low. Again.

This guy never ceases to disgust us. Just when we think there is nothing left he could possibly do to be one of the most vile and horrible people we ever stumbled across on the internet, he does something else.

This time it came in the form of an obviously faked email correspondence between Carroll and Jude. His latest post questions the authenticity of an email that was allegedly sent to Jude by Carroll that told her to kill herself. We've never seen the email in question to know if it is real or not. If it is floating around somewhere, we have never found it.

Carroll's grand scheme of shit to try to refute that email was to doctor one of his own. We guess it was an attempt to show that emails can be tampered with. Even though in the same post, Carroll says he doesn't know if the email he sent to Jude exists and he can't recall if he did tell Jude to kill herself. Carroll never seen the email, yet somehow he thinks it is a fake.

Being the typical asshole that he is, he doctors up the following email. Enlarge it so you can see all of the things that are so obviously tampered with. Warning: it's sad, lame, and vile:

So here we go again with Carroll making up stories about Jude having an abortion. We certainly think he is setting himself up for a lawsuit against him. It's bad enough he created and then removed a whole blog dedicated to this claim.

At this point we find it terribly difficult to believe that Carroll has indeed contacted law enforcement and/or a lawyer. One of the first things they would advise him to do is to cease having contact and poking a stick at the situation. But hey, if he wants to keep digging himself into a deeper hole, have at it Carroll.

The Sad Case of Carroll Bryant

We really hate living in the past. We like to deal with things, talk about them, and move on. Unfortunately for us, Carroll Bryant has a one-track mind and and an even slimmer memory. His latest blog post is all old news. Unfortunately for him, he got a few things wrong. This will be our ONLY post about the original incidents that led us to where we are right now. Dozens of other bloggers have covered what happened in its entirety and some things don't exist anymore. Back when everything began, Carroll would post something up only to remove it a few days or sometimes hours later.

It all began with this post on Goodreads which is no longer available:

http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/2732511-independent-authors-beware-bad-blogs-and-bloggers

Here is a screenshot of what it said:

This was done on day one. This is what started the entire fiasco. This is something that was done unprofessionally on a public site where anyone could read it and reply. And reply everyone did. It had hundreds of comments, mostly of disgust and anger. People pleaded with Carroll to rethink his actions before things escalated and before he posted his List. He didn't listen and posted his list anyway which you can see in the next screenshot. The List was posted on his original blog:

Now, in his latest blog post Carroll writes the following:

In his own words, Carroll Bryant states that the only reason he ever posted The List was to get back at Jude. We aren't going to speculate what kind of relationship Carroll and Jude had, whether it was romantic or friendship. The story has changed a few times over the past 8 months or so. Frankly, it doesn't matter. What matters is that he tried to name and shame bloggers who didn't know who he was and who claimed they never agreed to do anything for him. In The List screenshot above, you can see one of the bloggers he named, who shut down her blog shortly after all of this happened, state that she had no idea who he was. To this day, Carroll has never been able to provide proof that any of the bloggers he named on The List actually contacted him and requested an interview or a free book. We gave him the chance to do this, and he declined.

Here's the thing that Carroll STILL doesn't understand. When an ADULT has a problem with another ADULT, the two ADULTS work together to sort things out. They don't write ranting posts and take revenge on OTHER PEOPLE, to get back at each other. It was childish and unprofessional what Carroll did and that is why people became so angry and irate with him. As for The List, that was something he could have done in private if he was so worried about other independent authors being ripped off. He could have quietly passed along a list of names to his friends and colleagues, which we are sure the big name publishers do in private. But that wasn't his goal. Carroll's goal was to hurt Jude and this was his way of doing it. Completely illogical, right? We think so, too.

There was also the question on whether or not Carroll Bryant was involved with STGRB, a site that is still operating and has doc-dropped on several people in the past. Carroll now claims that he was never a part of STGRB, even though he admits it here (his name is deleted because he was kicked off of Goodreads shortly after):

http://www.goodreads.com/user_status/show/16034194?page=1#comment_54570359

He had written:

"I used to be a part of that website and left because I am not against "bad reviews". And I do not endorse going to people's blog and telling them how to run their blog. This is not what this is all about. It's about a select few who came to me, made me an offer then after getting what they asked me for, backed out for whatever reason. (The reason isn't even relevant really) It's just the point of your word. You get something in exchange for something then deliver that something you promised and move on. " 

Isn't that a huge contradiction to what he now wrote in his latest post? Later, this comment was left at this blogger's website, yet another contradiction:

Take what you want from that. Personally, we don't believe that Carroll misread anything. We think he either got heat from Melissa at STGRB for outing himself or that he was simply trying to backpedal on his own words.

At the end of the day the book blogging community is pretty tight-knit. When something bad or crazy happens, word gets spread like an uncontrollable wildfire. Dozens and dozens of blog posts were made about this whole incident and many opinions were shared. Carroll had written other posts pertaining to this whole incident, some of which are now deleted and some that still stand on his original blog. Since the original incident, Carroll has been an active commenter at STGRB, routinely stalks other bloggers who dare to post about what happened last year, and went so far as to create four hate blogs, three of which he has deleted because of their obscene material, among other things.

*Thank you to the person who emailed us with some of this information. It was very helpful in creating this post!

It Makes You Wonder

Carroll Bryant's latest post, StLouisKiss is Amiss, is certainly a miss. It's so pointless that even Carroll admits it is pointless. Running out of things to say? We think so.

It talks about a post on GenXpose's website about how Carroll approved of STGRB's donation button that appeared after they got booted from their old hosting site. We don't think we have to tell our readers why using a Paypal donation button under a false name is a bad idea. We think you are smarter than that. We also don't think we need to explain why Amanda or her husband donated 10 cents to this false fund, or why they gave a screenshot of the email to GenXpose. We've already discussed this.

So yes Carroll, your post was pointless and a waste of time. This next bit isn't a waste of time, though.

Recently we became aware of another blog that is attempting to discredit Carroll Bryant. The person behind that site also recently proposed a challenge to Carroll which he adamantly refuses to accept. For anyone who noticed, Carroll still hasn't accepted our own challenge. Imagine that.

Here is what we find even more interesting. Usually when a Carroll supporter leaves a comment on this blog or any other blog, they do so anonymously. On this other blog's post, a commenter logged in with a Google account and left this comment-

This isn't a name we recognize so we quickly screen capped it and did a Google search. We found this which is a Wattpad profile.

Recognize the photo? It's similar to one that is used on Carroll Bryant's original blog. That is an odd coincidence, wouldn't you agree? We have long suspected Carroll of using sock puppet accounts and writing fake comments in support of himself, but now we have a small bit of evidence to back us up. It could very well be a coincidence, but it is strange.

Living with Blinders Must Suck

We have been receiving anonymous comments from Caroline/Athena/Melissa/Carroll's Multiple Personality/Gillian or one of his other sheep asking why we had focused so much of our attention on Carroll's latest rants.

Let's break it down for you people-

1- We are a new blog.
2- We stated numerous times that we will not be rehashing old material.
3- Whatever Carroll is talking about, we are talking about.
4- We defend Amanda, Jude, John Green, and whomever else Carroll decides is his enemy because they are not part of this blog.
5- We defend them because outing innocent people who are not part of this blog is wrong, lame, and  as we have shown again, and again, Carroll's "Facts" don't add up.
6- The only reason Carroll is naming these people and trying so very hard to shame them is because it is eating him alive that he can't figure out who we are.
7- We don't post your comments because you have your own space to shit all over. This blog isn't for you.
8- Carroll demands proof of evidence, but can't give it back when requested.
9- We aren't going away, so deal with it.
10- We think it is disgusting when Carroll does low-ball things like this just to feed his ego. Good luck with the police, Carroll. LOL!

Stupid is as Stupid Does

Carroll Bryant's post about Amanda Welling doesn't give too much new information that we haven't already discussed in our last post, Logic Fails. Most of what he talked about we have preemptively debunked. He's so predictable that it's almost boring. There are a number of things from this new post we would like to add to our list of what we now call Carroll Bryant Logic:

-Carroll flat lies when he says that GenXpose says she/he donated money into STGRB's Paypal account on GenXpose's website. We are going to leave a screen shot below of what Mepis said and a link to read the whole conversation:

More can be found here: http://genxpose.blogspot.com/2013/01/stgrb-facts-rumors-speculation.html?showComment=1357950226514#c5821907372253833858

Our little Carroll is such a genius, isn't he? That was sarcasm, Carroll.

-The next new fuckery that he comes up with is that GenXpose left advice for Carroll and Hippies, Beauty, and Books. Oh My! wrote advice about internet predators (not sexual predators. Guilty conscience, Carroll?), they must be the same person. To which we...

Is he done now? We don't think he can make himself look dumber than he already has with this GenXpose/Amanda/Jon/ Jude/Imaginary Enemies load of elephant shit, but we doubt he will get the message. He will move to new targets and he already has a new calender of posts up for March. Don't worry, Carroll. We will be here to poke fun at those posts, too.