Anonymous B.

A small group of like-minded individuals use their writing skills to pursue, harrass, slander, malign, and bully countless individuals on this site. They dominate the forums with hate-threads, lies, abuse, defamation of character, slander and reconstructions of past history to excuse their behavior.

You, (readers) will have to make up your own minds about this site, but this is a warning and a suggestion. If you are serious about writing, I suggest you take your manuscripts to a professional writers site and forget Authonomy - for your own future. If you are fortunate enough to be published, they will threaten attacks against your book as well as you.

If you enjoy participating in abusive chat groups of the type this site has become, then this is the place for you.

Know that the individuals who perpetuate the abuse will circuitously retreat to a much more positive, benevolent - and even helpful- stance until the site calms down and you will be given some excellent reviews, but this won't endure and, if you do not show what the abusers consider to be proper admiration, you may be their next target. If you remain, be aware of this, of the potential threats to your book, and the emotional damage that can be done.