#dreamspinner press
God willing, this will be the last of the daily updates. Things are dying down a bit, old friendships are being reignited and it’s more or less reactions rather than new reveals. We can probably all agree that any more dramatic reveal would probably be the end of us all.
Summary:Some more half-hearted apologies and some very well written apologies. Bloggers delete review of Sonny’s books. Amazon will be doing refunds however this will financially impact Riptide.
Edit 12/03: We have been told that Eddie of gayforbooks is not the same as Eddie Witt, and any suggestion of this has been removed. In addition, as Sakura’s gender has not be specified, we have opted to use a gender neutral term “they” instead of “she”.
Miller-Callihan (whom you might remember as Sonny’s agent) tweeted this(x). Something of a non-apology to be sure. At this point we can say many of Sonny’s most ardent defenders are not covering themselves in glory here. As Ellie Reads points out, “If your apology is all about your hurt at being conned by SH and your grief over losing a friend, it’s useless to the real victims in this situation.” A good twitter thread about why this matters with screencaps hinting at the degree of smearing that went on behind the scene.
Apologiesandstatementswithoutusing the phrases “if I hurt anyone” or a focus on their own pain. This includes Amy Jo Cousin.
Blogsareremovingtheirreviews of Sonny’s books. Riptide clarifies exactly how much a publisher really knows about the authors and what the signing process entails. Amazon is also doing refunds for purchases of Sonny’s book, though that will coming out of Riptide’s pocket, which Riptide hopes to recover from the last few royalty checks.
Sakura deactivates the sweetsakuradoll twitter (the account remains as an archive), but not without a last fuck you to Sonny. They admit to being an author who remained anon to avoid overshadowing the others involved, and did not wish to profit from this.
Roan Parrish makes a statement that says….very little, but this sentence “i’m pretty uncomfortable raising my own feelings in the context of others’ pain” is promising. Eddie Witt says this which starts off promising and then gets blamey at the end. (Eddie is LA Witt’s husband so not exactly unbiased).
We wanted to end with this post by Harper Miller, which is a neat think piece on the entire situation.
