UPDATE: Oh, the drama! Bloomfield now says her agent is back on board. Gosh, maybe she should have waited a few days before posting about how evil feminists scared him off? Nah. Much better to stir up a lot of shit about nothing, huh? Wow. Such public relations. So integrity.
Ah, sweet schadenfreude! Janet “Judgy Bitch” Bloomfield — A Voice for Men’s lying, harassing PR maven — has evidently been dumped by her literary agent.
According to Bloomfield, the agent she’d been working with for more than a year on a novel of some sort has decided to wash his hands of her. “Sadly,” she writes on her blog,
something has happened (I don’t know what) and my agent has decided to drop me as a client and forego any and all income the book might potentially generate. He does not wish to be named or acknowledged in any way.
Bloomfield, naturally, blames feminists. While admitting she actually has “no idea what spooked my agent,” the headline of her blog post declares that “a man decides feminists can ruin him and wisely opts to not engage.”
In her post, she expounds on this theory:
I do not question his decision at all. No one should have to sacrifice their career and livelihood. I have always known resisting the tyranny of feminism would come with a price, but this is my battle and I do not require civilians to go down with me.
Huh. Bloomfield notes at the outset of her post that her agent was aware of her, er, “online activism” and had no issue with it. So what could have sent him scurrying off in another direction?
I mean, what on earth could it be?
Let’s look at some possibilities:
- Her novel is fucking awful.
- She’s a pain in the ass to work with.
- Her agent has discovered that her “activism” consists of gleefully libeling and harassing her opponents and has decided that just maybe he doesn’t want his name associated with such a terrible person.
- Her agent has read some of her blog posts — possibly including her multiple posts attacking rape victims, including the underage victims of Jimmy Savile, as “whores” — and has decided he doesn’t want his name associated with such a terrible person.
- Evil feminists have ordered the agent to stop representing her, even though she is a wonderful human being and her novel is totally awesome and a friend of hers has already created some “beautiful cover art.”
- All of the above, except that last one, because seriously.
I leave you to decide which of these options makes the most sense.
Oh, and while we’re talking schadenfreude, did I mention that my little blog gets more traffic than A Voice for Men?
H/T — r/againstmensrights
Don’t be so sure. I could see him doing a prequel that focused on Isildur or something.
“I have an awesome literary agent. He knows all about me and my online activism, and he’s totally cool with it. Oh, you can’t meet with him now; he lives in Canada.”
Nnnggghh, make it end
Yeah, that was pretty self-aggrandizing. Men, with their lofty understanding, comprehend men AND women clearly, but women are too stunted and shallow to write believable men. Only JudgyBitch, alone among women can truly see and understand men as they really are: Gritty, terse, tense-shifting soldiers…
Eat lead, Fritz! screamed Nick Stiletto, spraying No Man’s Land with a river of testosterone-fueled hellfire as bullets have bounced off his stomach hair. Meanwhile, over in the mess hall, the men ate steak, potatoes, and whiskey and listening to songs about beards. I could feel them experiencing all the horror and joy and exhilaration and boredom and fear and courage and despair and invincibility and utter vulnerability of being at war, because I are have been omniscient.
Also this humblebrag:
made me roll my eyes. Lots of women have families, houses, jobs, and projects. They go calmly about their business and don’t act like they deserve a medal for having multiple things going on at once. JudgyBitch seems to think she wins the Amazeballs Trophy for showing up at life.
How I picture Judgy’s husband (or anyone else who has to deal with her on a regular basis) when she fires off one of her salvos:
Oooh, I like this option! Con man rips her off and disappears.
Given her own description of the thing, no real agent would have taken it on after reading a sample anyway.
As for her “few women” schtick – ha. I’ve written a full novel with male protagonists and it’s actually been read, reviewed and enjoyed by people who didn’t know me at all. And there was a war in it. And Ebil Women (or at least, women who were political opponents of the protagonists). So I’m way ahead of Ms Incompetent Bore in the special snowflake rankings.
::farts in JB’s general direction::
I agree with everyone who says it was probably a predatory agent. That explains both how she managed to snag him and why he vanished.
Oh, and add me to the list of nonexistent women who have written novels about men during wartime.
That’s amazing, Buttercup >_<
Now we need a sample paragraph about shaving with chainsaws and riding grizzly bears into combat while blaring a heavy metal rendition of "Hall of the Mountain King," before heading back to their base to play video games without any smelly girls around because #GamerGate.
Her novel sounds like it was written by Guy In Your MFA.
https://twitter.com/GuyInYourMFA
HA, ha:
Katz, I think you’re right. Only Guy here is obviously satire. But his advice is sound, at least as pertains to JudgyBore.
I want Buttercup’s novel to be published now. Because genius. Also beard songs.
That account was hilarious and I promptly followed it.
Dear god. And she’s proud of that? At least I know I’m a terrible writer (I’d say I’m not inflicting it on anyone else, but I’m trying my hand on a Doctor Who fanfic over at fanfiction.net, because there are things I want the Doctor to do, including meet and fight Slenderman, which is what I’m leading up to… eventually… if this first try at it works out decently, anyways, and I’m already having trouble because his two new companions are Irish and I’m having trouble with that).
She does not live in this reality. I know it’s already been said here, but I just need to repeat it. There is no way in hell she lives in this reality.
I’d day she must live in the Twilight Zone, but I feel like Rod Serling (seemingly a Social Justice Warrior of his time) would be disgusted by her.
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Should be “I’d say”… 🙁
@Miss Andry
Add in Abraham Lincoln, and you’ve got yourself a feminist historical novel!
I bet Abraham Lincoln knows some really good beard songs, too.
It’s not a typo. It’s gritty realism, perfectly imitating the way keyboards are used in typed English. Publish that shit. I know just the publisher…
I hope she somehow gets the book published. Just think, a literary equivalent of ‘The Room’.
” Oh, hi whore”
Nope, she’s off the main track and on a reality side-spur of her very own, possibly derailed at the end of it.
I feel sorry for her, a bit…though she’s really malignant, she’s also really unhappy.
In her case though, sharing is not caring.
I’ll try the generous interpretation:
Her agent was real. He really was a ‘big New York agent’. He spent his precious time helping her write and rewrite her literary work until it was highly polished and lovely. Then he sent it out.
It was so good, a big publisher called it on ‘the edge of greatness’.
Sadly, it wasn’t quite what they wanted. Nor what any of the Big Five wanted.
Alas, owing to the constrained publishing environment we now live in, nobody was able to take this work that – they all agreed – was very, very good.
With nobody credible left to send it to, the agent had to bail. Unable to bear the pain of dealing with yet another disappointed, very talented author, he cut her off.
This scenario DOES happen. Maybe it happened to her.
It probably didn’t, of course. Based on a quick read of her blog posts, she seems to specialise in flat, one-note writing that doesn’t suggest great literary abilities.
In any case, I would plump for her actual writing torpedoing her, rather than her political affiliations.
Yikes. Yup, I’m in agreement with everyone else – we’re either looking at
1) a publisher from one of those dodgy places that will publish your book no matter how bad it is and make you pay all costs, who then ran when they realized they were dealing with someone willing to libel and they didn’t want to open up that legal can of worms
or
2) she never had a publisher and this is a step on the road to getting her book crowdfunded
Of course, there’s no reason 1) can’t be correct and then she defaults to 2) to try and get the book published anyway.
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I’d love to see a dramatic reading of her novel. I imagine it being alot like watching Dark Place.
I took a quick look at her blog. She was jumping up and down in September that her agent was about to send out her manuscript. Three months later, she’s been dumped.
So maybe she really did have an agent who sent out the manuscript and couldn’t sell it, and who then dumped her. It does happen.
Though apparently the ‘big New York agent’ has just picked her up again.
Whatever. Can’t wait to click ‘read inside’ on Amazon when it finally comes out (in whatever form) – and then click it shut.