Below is the post we published on Kat Kennedy on July 8, 2012.

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EyeGR Name: Kat Kennedy

Real Name: Kat Kennedy

Category: Ringleader

Level of Toxicity: DEFCON 1, Maximum Alert

 

Out of all the GR bullies, we consider Kat Kennedy to be the biggest offender.  Kat is one of the three ringleaders who organizes assaults on authors on Goodreads and on her Cuddlebuggery Book Blog (she is not the Godmother, however, of which there is only one and we will get to her on a later post.)  On each Buzz Worthy News post on Cuddlebuggery, there is a section at the end called Scandalous Scandals, where Kat and her cohort talk about the latest “author scandal.”  This usually sets the minions off onto a witch hunt for said author/s, and not so strangely enough, after each Scandalous Scandal post, the author/s mentioned is then stalked, terrorized, and humiliated until that author/s either retreats into the shadows or leaves Goodreads altogether.

As if this wasn’t bad enough, she has personally led several attacks on authors.  Of all of these, there are two that stand out for us: the attack on M.R. Mathias, here (update: M.R. Mathias is gone from GR now), and on Rebecca Hamilton, here.  Both authors were attacked for harmlessly commenting on reviews.  Neither called anyone names or were hostile in anyway.  The attack on M.R. started on Goodreads and afterwards, Kat tweeted about him:

TrollMR

Then she included him in the Scandalous Scandals section of her blog post.  After that, it was then a free-for-all when the minions jumped in.

As for Rebecca, the attack actually began in the Absolute Write Water Cooler (remember what we said here about the overlap between GR and AW?)  When Kat found out, she wrote about it on her blog, again under Scandalous Scandals and it led to this comment thread that is – wait for it – 12 pages long!

If you are interested in reading the whole thing, be our guest, but here we will sum up.  Rebecca tried to explain her position.  Kat and the minions attacked with insults and jabs, twisting her words around and dragging her name through the mud with lies, all the time insisting that she follow the GR bully code of conduct which requires that all authors to remain silent.

Finally, one of the commenters, M, had something very rational and reasonable to say:

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To which Kat responded:

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She proceeded to block M from the conversation, apologizing to the others for not having done it sooner, and then justified the action with this:

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Is that right, Kat?  You won’t stand for name-calling and personal attacks?  Well maybe you missed this one against Rebecca:

Insult

And this one:

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And this one:

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And this one:

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And this one:

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Gee, Kat, how come none of them were blocked from the conversation?  Oh, wait, silly me, tricks are for kids.  You didn’t block M because of personal attacks.  You blocked her because she presented you with a sound argument that you couldn’t answer.  Not surprising at all.

This is typical bully behavior.  If you disagree with the bullies and present sound arguments that they can’t answer, they will either attack you, dismiss you, or if they can, block you from the conversation.  They do this all the time.

So … to end this post, we have some great news:

Novel

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Facepalm

Oops, not just a little mistake.  Way to go, butterfingers.  Probably a good idea to lay off the booze there, Kat.

But, good news!  She is going to be releasing a book!  This. Is. Fantastic!  Not sure about anyone else, but all of us here at STGRB will be eagerly awaiting the release of that one.  *wrings hands*  Muahahahaha!

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