Jamie McGuire lived about 30 mins from my parent’s place in Steamboat. I asked once if she would meet for coffee & chat about being an author (this was right when I was releasing my first book so I was looking for a mentor). She said sure as long as I pay. (1)
Then i asked if it would be ok if I brought my copies of her books, so she could sign them. She got angry & said absolutely not she only signs when paid to. (I have this saved from my Facebook somewhere...) so I called of the meeting because she wasn’t someone worth my time. (2)
Every week the town newspapers and the high school paper used to have at least one complaint about her that someone would send in. She bullied and threatened the kids at the high school, she claimed they all bullied her daughter (who was queen bee of the school). (3)
There was also the time she tried to get me to sell lipsticks for her. She went over the shit and briefly mentions that I had to buy my own stock first. When I asked how much she said “just like 4,000 or so” & when I asked how she expected me to pay for it she told me to (4)
Get a personal loan.

She. Wanted. Me. To. Get. A. Lone. To. Make. Her. Money.

When I said no, I stopped hearing from her anymore. Win. (5)
Until about 2 years ago when she was on her anti- vaccine bender. She posted some YouTube video w/ a random dude in his kitchen with a box of fruit loops cereal, going off on how this cereal was poisoned to cause harm to our children. That it was causing autism & gay children (6)
When I rebutted her with actual facts and the idea that maybe we should t just believe any old post on YouTube, she got so mad. She told me snopes was biased left wing propaganda and I was a sheep. (7)
When I came back with peer reviewed data and scientific evidence- she blocked me and got her crowd of followers to one star my books. I ended up pulling one book off the market that I haven’t put back up because of her minions. (8)
I still haven’t re-listed that book because the memory of it is a horrid thing and it makes me panic to even think about it. I was a newbie; she used her immensely power to push me off the platform all because I said let’s not get science from a dude w/ a cereal box on YouTube.
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