💥 Trainwreck Gloria Tesch / Sofia Nova - Author of the Maradonia series turned Republithot

[Ignatius]

I'm also guessing the other semi-professionals who got roped into doing this are typically used to working with people who know something about movie-making, not some flighty film-making tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian. So there's bound to be friction on that front.

OT: OMG, a Lemony Snicket reference!

 

[bradsternum]

I can not think of any modern writers who published anything worth reading before their mid twenties, at the very least. Most people - with the exception of prodigies - are not developed enough as human beings, let alone writers.

Mary Shelley was 16 when she wrote Frankenstein.



(then again she knew several accomplished writers who most likely helped her out quite a bit)

I can not think of any modern writers who published anything worth reading before their mid twenties, at the very least. Most people - with the exception of prodigies - are not developed enough as human beings, let alone writers.

Or genuine geniuses.
Mary Shelley was brilliant.

 

[Henry Bemis]

I can not think of any modern writers who published anything worth reading before their mid twenties, at the very least. Most people - with the exception of prodigies - are not developed enough as human beings, let alone writers.

Mary Shelley was 16 when she wrote Frankenstein.



(then again she knew several accomplished writers who most likely helped her out quite a bit)

I can not think of any modern writers who published anything worth reading before their mid twenties, at the very least. Most people - with the exception of prodigies - are not developed enough as human beings, let alone writers.

Or genuine geniuses.
Mary Shelley was brilliant.

There's also Daisy Ashford, a nine-year-old girl who in 1890 wrote what was later published as The Young Visiters with all her youthful mistakes retained. Now, I haven't read it, but even with rampant spelling and grammar issues, the story has apparently endured into the present day as a charming bridge to the past, a clear-eyed glimpse of Victorian society.

Gloria Tesch isn't interested in making such communicative bridges with her future readers; she only wants to sell a lotta books. It's telling that the three authors she most commonly cites in her publicity (Stephen King, Stephanie Meyer and J K Rowling) have nothing in common other than printing money.

 

[bradsternum]

She has the most in common with Meyer - a self-absorbed religious wang with delusions of grandeur (although Meyer's were validated by the publishing world.) JK Rowling and Stephen King can tell a good story. There's nothing pretentious about them.

 

[Uzumaki]

She has the most in common with Meyer - a self-absorbed religious wang with delusions of grandeur (although Meyer's were validated by the publishing world.) JK Rowling and Stephen King can tell a good story. There's nothing pretentious about them.

You can be talented and pretentious at the same time. Read up about JK Rowling and then come back and tell me she's not pretentious.

 

[bradsternum]

She has the most in common with Meyer - a self-absorbed religious wang with delusions of grandeur (although Meyer's were validated by the publishing world.) JK Rowling and Stephen King can tell a good story. There's nothing pretentious about them.

You can be talented and pretentious at the same time. Read up about JK Rowling and then come back and tell me she's not pretentious.

I am very familiar with her. She doesn't strike me as pretentious, in the sense that she does not think her writing is Ulysses or Crime & Punishment. She knows she's writing entertainment, and makes no claims to the contrary. Whereas Gloria claims her books are a "lifestyle."

And yeah, you can be talented and pretentious. Norman Mailer. Gore Vidal, etc, etc.

 

[WWWWolf]

I did come across this ebook version of Maradonia and the Escape from the Underworld (am I right in assuming anyone can put stuff up for sale there? Because I can't see any other reason it would be on here).

It lists Liberty"s Book Press (funny punctuation theirs) as the publisher, which means that B&N got the book through the vanity press run by Tesches. Online bookstores only care that the publisher can supply them with the books if they're ordered. And the threshold for ebooks is probably lower than usual, because they just need to send copies of files anyway. Perhaps they were worried if the book had been listed as being published by CreateSpace/Kindle Whatever, or whatever B&N's service is called, as that would have immediately told people that it's a self-pub. They're still pulling a Stanek here - operating a vanity press of their own so people wouldn't spot the shenanigans that easily.

 

[Horde Prime]

I have been reading this thread for the past several minutes, and I felt I should throw my two cents into the ring.

I'm an aspiring writer. I have an autism spectrum disorder, but I doesn't define me as a person. I struggle with depression, but I try to see the light. I haven't written much, but I hope to. I consider my writing to be a form of therapy, a means of exercising my demons. The thing is, despite how much I focus on world building and the psychology of my characters, I don't let it overtake my life. I don't let it consume me. Gloria, spoiled little girl that she is, has let her fantasy become her reality. Sad, really.

Good for you man. Do you mind if I ask how old you are? I ask because I have an 8 year old son who was recently diagnosed with autism and honestly seeing the antics of CWC and some of these other lolcow people has not exactly been filling me with confidence for my son's future.

Also, Evangelion is awesome.

 

[Connor Bible]

Good for you man. Do you mind if I ask how old you are? I ask because I have an 8 year old son who was recently diagnosed with autism and honestly seeing the antics of CWC and some of these other lolcow people has not exactly been filling me with confidence for my son's future.

Also, Evangelion is awesome.

Thank you very much, Horde Prime. I turn twenty in a couple of weeks, and I've just started my fourth semester at a nearby technical college.

 

[caffeinated_wench]

I have been reading this thread for the past several minutes, and I felt I should throw my two cents into the ring.

I'm an aspiring writer. I have an autism spectrum disorder, but I doesn't define me as a person. I struggle with depression, but I try to see the light. I haven't written much, but I hope to. I consider my writing to be a form of therapy, a means of exercising my demons. The thing is, despite how much I focus on world building and the psychology of my characters, I don't let it overtake my life. I don't let it consume me. Gloria, spoiled little girl that she is, has let her fantasy become her reality. Sad, really.

Aspiring writer here, too, and I'm also struggling with depression as well as a few other personal issues. I see writing as the same thing as well as... well, I just love storytelling. While it's fun to create your own world and the characters that live in it, it's crucial that you don't lose yourself in it. It's unhealthy and is detrimental to one's ability to deal with the harshness of reality. I'm surprised I haven't heard of her before, as she makes for a good cautionary tale if I'm understanding all of this about her correctly. Any writer who's like her does, I think.

...and I like to read the bad. It's not just entertainment. For me, it helps to serve as something of a warning: "Don't do this. You're better than this. Look at what they did wrong and learn from it." Of course, like my SO tells me one needs to balance it out with good storytelling or one may find oneself writing stories just as bad.

I'm glad you don't let your disorder define you! And I wish you luck in both your depression and your writing. We'll make it one of these days; just have to keep going, y'know?

 

[Picklechu]

I've read that her parents paid for people to come to a book signing she did once, just so she would feel that she was an actually respected author. I can't seem to find where I read that, though, although I do believe that it was posted on reddit.

 

[caffeinated_wench]

If that's true, that just pisses me off.

This sheltering her from how rough the writing world can actually be won't help her. It just keeps her balls-deep in her fantasies.

I want to earn that respect, not buy it. Gah.
So spoiled.

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

I have been reading this thread for the past several minutes, and I felt I should throw my two cents into the ring.

I'm an aspiring writer. I have an autism spectrum disorder, but I doesn't define me as a person. I struggle with depression, but I try to see the light. I haven't written much, but I hope to. I consider my writing to be a form of therapy, a means of exercising my demons. The thing is, despite how much I focus on world building and the psychology of my characters, I don't let it overtake my life. I don't let it consume me. Gloria, spoiled little girl that she is, has let her fantasy become her reality. Sad, really.

Aspiring writer here, too, and I'm also struggling with depression as well as a few other personal issues. I see writing as the same thing as well as... well, I just love storytelling. While it's fun to create your own world and the characters that live in it, it's crucial that you don't lose yourself in it. It's unhealthy and is detrimental to one's ability to deal with the harshness of reality. I'm surprised I haven't heard of her before, as she makes for a good cautionary tale if I'm understanding all of this about her correctly. Any writer who's like her does, I think.

...and I like to read the bad. It's not just entertainment. For me, it helps to serve as something of a warning: "Don't do this. You're better than this. Look at what they did wrong and learn from it." Of course, like my SO tells me one needs to balance it out with good storytelling or one may find oneself writing stories just as bad.

I'm glad you don't let your disorder define you! And I wish you luck in both your depression and your writing. We'll make it one of these days; just have to keep going, y'know?

We write not for praise but because there's a story inside that needs to come out. At least that's the way it was and still is for me.

I wrote quite extensively when I was younger and still do. I tried to get myself published by going through regular channels but only managed one short story in a short lived 'zine. Made $50.00 on it so technically I am a published author but when the rejection letters kept piling up I just stopped sending in my submissions and instead focused on writing my stories the way I wanted them to be told.

In the end, write for yourself. If others like it then that's a bonus but not the goal.

 

[not the bees]

I briefly went to the same school as Gloria.

We went to a charter school, where you take online courses and are assisted by teachers. She always bragged about being an author, making money, and having book-signings, but it never occurred to me to google her until I had stopped going there. I didn't go to school very often, so I don't have too much to share.

Instead of eating lunch she would bring in half a head of cabbage in a plastic bag. She said she learned it from her Russian grandmother or something, apparently it was to keep her "full" and still stay thin.

One thing that always stood out to me was one day, one of the new kids heard about her being an author (she never told anyone she was self-published) and showed her his writing. She told him that it was "weird" because it was in first person, and that she generally didn't like it. She couldn't specify why it was bad, or how to improve it. At the time I just figured his writing was really terrible and she was a legit author, so she probably just didn't want to deal with him. Chances are it really was bad, but I doubt it was as bad as Glorias.

Sorry, I don't have a lot of stories. I ignored her for the most part because she was annoying.

 

[Judge Holden]

I vote that nothebees be banned for not beating the stupid out of gloria with a baseball bat while at school with her

 

[not the bees]

I vote that nothebees be banned for not beating the stupid out of gloria with a baseball bat while at school with her

I do regret never being able to approach her directly about her shitty books, but I imagine that she would say something along the lines of "well I'm making money and you're not, you pleb". But someone really needs to put her in her place, because I seriously doubt anyone has told her Maradonia is a steaming pile of shit to her face. She completely surrounds herself with asspatters.

Something I've also noticed is that she likes to put out this "bad bitch" attitude (like those rap videos or that fight video she put up) but in reality she's just an overprivileged white girl. It actually kinda reminds me of Chris, haha.

 

[caffeinated_wench]

I love how she tries acting like they're bestsellers when:

• 1. LOL THEY'RE NOT.
  2. You can see that they're missing the sticker the other bestsellers have.
  3. You can see there is a book behind Maradonia that is obviously NOT a Maradonia book.

Spoiler

Have I mentioned I don't like her? Because I don't. What a spoiled rotten little brat.

 

[bradsternum]

And this is why she's hateful. Unless she is really, really stupid, there's no way she doesn't know that she's (attempting) to decieve people.

 

[MysticMisty]

I vote that nothebees be banned for not beating the stupid out of gloria with a baseball bat while at school with her

I do regret never being able to approach her directly about her shitty books, but I imagine that she would say something along the lines of "well I'm making money and you're not, you pleb". But someone really needs to put her in her place, because I seriously doubt anyone has told her Maradonia is a steaming pile of shit to her face. She completely surrounds herself with asspatters.

Her ED article includes a YouTube video of her starting a fist fight with another girl. Perhaps the other girl was openly saying that Maradonia is godawful and Gloria is a shitty writer?

 

[not the bees]

Her ED article includes a YouTube video of her starting a fist fight with another girl. Perhaps the other girl was openly saying that Maradonia is godawful and Gloria is a shitty writer?

Honestly, I doubt it. It was probably just upper middle-class suburban girl drama. It's pretty common, as well as uploading said fights to youtube.

Sometimes, I wonder what Gloria is going to do if she ever has to get a real job.