He was given a $24k advance by Tor to write three books, and he is such a lazy sack of shit that he repurposed the very first book he ever wrote and passed it off as a new release.
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Mr. Tomlinson has just threatened Leslie Varney, a female publisher whom he has been attacking on Twitter from behind a block for more than a year, to be sued into poverty with a lawsuit that will presumably be funded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
- Mr. Tomlinson's 2021 lawsuit was funded in secret by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a 501(c)(3) charity, to the tune of $100,000 without the knowledge or consent of their donors or members. They also agreed to pay any sanctions in case he lost (which he did).
- All parties involved signed NDAs so that the general public would never know.
- To this day, SFWA has never acknowledged its funding of the lawsuit, and actively instructs the few people in the know to ignore all inquiries into it.
- Is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America funding Mr. Tomlinson's lawsuit against the Milwaukee Police? If they are, the general public probably wouldn't know due to their history of funding expensive lawsuits in secret.
- You can use IRS form 3949-A to report SFWA's activity if you reasonably believe that it is illegal for a 501(c)(3) charity to secretly fund frivolous nuisance lawsuits for one of its members.
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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal (himself) to a troll.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never shown this video footage during any of his media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergences (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
Pat wrote the first draft of Gate Crashers over 10 years ago
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I hope his suicide note will take less time than that.
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He’s too much of a narcissist to commit suicide. But rest assured, he’s still eating and drinking himself to death.
felony death wish stlaker. wait for the knock
Where did you get the $24k number, because as I recall it was $30k.
(And the last $30k advance he'll ever get. What did his last book sell, 300 copies, mostly pre-order? Rotsa ruck)
I believe he got a $6k advance from Angry Robot for his first book The Ark. So when you add all his advances up you get $30k, which is probably the total income he has made from writing since his books haven't earned out their advances.
Whenever he talks about receiving royalty checks, he's talking about royalties generated by the audiobook in Europe or something, which is not covered by the advance and the checks are probably less than the loose change you would find between in your couch cushions.
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Whoever greenlit giving that moron 24k for his shit books, should be blackballed from the publishing industry.
How the fuck did Pat get 24k for writing?
Who’s the genius living out of a box because he saw Pat as a prospect?
Who’s the genius living out of a box because he saw Pat as a prospect?
That hat is ruined.
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I want him to live a long life in a wheelchair. Preferably from something he can’t get sympathy for like drunkenly running a stop sign on his scooter and getting plowed by a truck, but if some hard pipe hittin nigga just fucks him up I’ll accept that too.
Cutting corners Tomlinson. Fences, manuscripts, you name it.
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He got a $6k advance with each book from Angry Robot and has talked about it in a blog post. It's a little low, even for a first time author, but he made some noise about keeping the foreign and audiobook rights. He mentioned getting a $30k check from "his publisher" when he signed his three-book deal with Tor in a tweet which he promptly deleted, suggesting that it was factually correct and annoyed the publisher. $10k per book is about right money-wise.
He's claimed that his first three books have "earned out" their advances which I think is possible, but that must be right at the end of their sales curve. I don't believe his Tor books have earned out; and I think they made him switch from his planned trilogy to something else because the book sales were dogshit. From memory his last one sold ~250, with about 200 being pre-orders.
If the old forum ever comes back I did an autistic post trying to figure out pat's book sales, and went through all of Charlie Stross' (Tor published author) posts on the publishing industry and how they pay, as well as tracking down a database of first book sales and the advances they get.
You're right; but he had to pay some poor motherfucker to read his books and translate/read them out loud first. I doubt whatever royalties he gets covers that massive upfront cost; and that's why his Tor books aren't translated.
They're translated-- from shit to fucking shit.