2) Sue deletes her real fucking racist likes off Twitter, but not before people start asking Suzan Tisdale (amongst others) if she's going to continue to have Sue on as an acquisitions editor at her publishing company, Glenfinnan Publishing.
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3) Suzan waves her hands a lot and says Sue is a good person, even if she's, you know, deep in Qanon BS, liked a bunch of racist shit, and has a long history of being real fucking racist. 4) Someone notices Suzan's other acquiring editor at Glenfinnan is Kathryn Lynn Davis.
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5) This is only notable because folks have also noticed that Kathryn Lynn Davis has written some real fucking racist trash ass books. HUH, how weird is it that Suzan has 2 acquiring editors, and they're both REALLY FUCKING RACIST? (Spoiler: Not that weird. Birds of a feather.)
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6) People start asking more questions, including Courtney Milan who happens to have a bigger twitter following than most, and Suzan waves her hands some more and refuses to do anything about the racist trash bags who comprise her staff and people are not happy.
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7) Suzan and Kathryn decide to file complaints with the RWA against Courtney because she's the most prominent voice and also who better to weaponize your white tears against than a WOC succeeding in a subgenre of publishing where you're trying to get some lift?
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8) Between Suzan and Kathryn filing their complaints and the RWA making a decision about them, Courtney steps down as the chair of the ethics committee for RWA and a new board of directors is voted in.
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9) Apparently deciding the sitting ethics committee is too close to Courtney, a special ethics committee is convened to investigate the complaints from Suzan and Kathryn. It is unclear how this special committee was convened or who authorized it.
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10) Courtney is given the opportunity to respond to the complaints and dismantles them, b/c she's a lawyer and the complaints are bullshit. Original complaints: https://twitter.com/AlyssaColeLit/status/1209280226456473600 … Courtney's response:https://twitter.com/AlyssaColeLit/status/1209610966473818112 …
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11) The second string ethics committee produced the following report in November:https://twitter.com/AlyssaColeLit/status/1209280236870873090 …
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12) RWA president-elect Damon Suede invents the position of liaison to the ethics committee, and rather than sharing the full text of both complaints against Courtney, as well as Courtney's response, with the Board of Directors, acts as the spokesperson of the ethics committee.
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13) Suede is the one who represented to the RWA BOD the complaints against Courtney, Courtney's response, and the findings of the back-up ethics committee's report. Based on his representation, the BOD votes 10-5 to suspend Courtney and ban her permanently from RWA leadership.
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14) All this shit comes out on December 23. Alyssa Cole--author, goddess, and general amazing human being--shares ALLLLLL of this with the internet. 15) For many on the BOD, they see the complaints against Courtney and Courtney's rebuttal in full for the first time on Twitter.
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17) The RWA tweets that they have "identified a gap between policy and process" and therefore have rescinded their decision against Courtney until they can talk to a lawyer (which is what they should have done from the start but
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18) 9 members of the BOD resign, including pres. Carolyn Jewel (although no one has seen her resignation letter.) 19) 28 local chapter presidents call on the president, president-elect, and executive director of RWA to resign. 20) The CIMRWA calls on their resignations too.
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21) Tons of others cancel their membership, state their intention of not renewing membership, withdraw their RITA submissions, and resign as RITA judges.
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22) A petition is circulating also calling on resignations of now-president Damon Suede and executive director Carol Ritter.https://twitter.com/LaurelCremant/status/1210698582699003906 …
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23) The RWA continues to dig a deeper hole for itself, by issuing statements like this unsigned garbage stating they're looking forward to letting Suede install a new, unelected board:https://twitter.com/romancewriters/status/1210360016726822914 …
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24) Damon Suede's husband got on Twitter and started brawling with people pointing out that his husband has been up to some shady shit. 25) Damon Suede managed to get called out by Chuck Tingle for lying about him and their relationship. (
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26) Damon Suede sent out this hot mess of an email which brings to light a whole bunch of procedural irregularities, implicates himself as ringleader of the fuckery w/ Courtney, and likely also constitutes a breach of fiduciary duty, because he's an ass.https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1210721424651870215 …
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27) In the background, other people have been raising the alarm about their own ethics complaints that haven't made it past RWA staff to the real ethics committee, encounters w/ RWA staff that raise questions about bigotry on the staff, Suede being a lying liar, and...
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28) The fact that RWA has done nothing to help authors under Dreamspinner Press, a gay romance publisher that hasn't paid several of its authors royalties in months. 29) Damon Suede has a book coming out in January with Dreamspinner.
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30) Also, while we're on publisher fuckery, lots of folks have pointed out that Suzan and Kathryn essentially entered their complaints not as writers but as publishers, which means they shouldn't have been able to bring a complaint against an author in the first place.pic.twitter.com/D4xkMyoX4w
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31) Also, the OCC RWA chapter was paying black speakers HALF the rate of white speakers, an ethics complaint was filed, but no one ever spoke with the black speakers who got stiffed and the president, Jenny Hansen, is still president.https://twitter.com/mel_thegreat/status/1209656494083362816 …
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32) The DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) liaison to the RWA PAN (published authors network) advisory committee resigned after the committee decided the PAN didn't need DEI training this year.https://twitter.com/AinsleyWynter/status/1211316602513350656?s=19 …
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33) Nora Roberts, High Priestess of Romancelandia, has weighed in.https://twitter.com/MaryL_MarissaC/status/1211341144245833728?s=19 …
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34) Former RWA president HelenKay Dimon talks about how the decision to ask Courtney to step down from the ethics committee was made.https://twitter.com/helenkaydimon/status/1211369882358435840?s=19 …
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35) Former RWA president Leslie Kelly discusses how changes to ethics committee procedures made in October were clearly done to pave the way for ousting Courtney and giving Damon Suede the ability to do so:https://twitter.com/lesliekelly/status/1211362062137360384?s=19 …
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36) The RWA has attempted to invalidate the CIMRWA's recall petition. If you signed it, please check your email for follow-up instructions.https://twitter.com/CIMRWA/status/1211380895535501313 …
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37) The RWA sent out another email, saying (amongst other things) they are hiring a law firm to conduct an independent audit and criticizing present and former RWA leaders who have spoken out against RWA. No mention of a recall.https://twitter.com/LorelieBrown/status/1211740591161131008 …
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