Today I respond to a Tweet made by
David Bret on July 2, 2020, in which he praises one Eleanor Gribbin
for her deterring a prospective reader of my Valentino biography,
Affairs Valentino by saying the book was, “the workings of a mad
woman”. Calling me a “mad woman” is one of Bret's favored
defamatory lies about me.
On July 2, he tweets:
“Eleanor Gribbin.. Whoever you
are, wherever you are. I kneel to you. xxx"
I dispute Bret's feigning he does not
know who Eleanor Gribbin is, because she once kicked him out of her
group along with the following statement which she posted on February
3...a blaring meme headline (a graphic with flames) on her forum.
“Dear members, Anything written by
David Bret is not welcome. Thank you, Eleanor.”
There are then twenty-three comments
under this post. I reference but a few:
“There's only one place for DB's
books.. the trash heap.”
To this response, Eleanor Gribbin posts
an image of Snoopy in a movie theater seat eating popcorn enjoying
the show.
Bret's work is then referred to as,
“high octane fiction”, while Eleanor Gribbin responds with hearts
and thank yous while adding how Bret writes with no research and
bases his books on unsubstantiated rumors.
When someone comments Bret is a “boil
on the ass of humanity and a vicious little trouble maker”, Eleanor
Gribbin responds with a kiss emoji and “love it lol.”
Comments continue, as she moderates,
with various comments saying Bret is a bully and a liar and a “big
liar”.
So I have to ask:
Why would Bret pretend not to know the
woman who kicked him off her forum? If he indeed does not then he
might want to rethink his public notice of homage to her.
And why would she still allow him to be
a member of the forum under his known alias, Albert Morris? Last I
heard this was the case.
Why would Bret ever want to kneel
before this woman who holds him in such low regard as to publicly
post “love it lol” to her followers on her Facebook forum when
they were debasing him and his books.?
Might ask Eleanor Gribbin and David
Bret why.
I respond to them both and refute that
my books are as Gribbin stated, “the workings of a mad woman” and
I refute Bret's claim he does not know Eleanor Gribbin. Ridiculous.
I want to make it perfectly clear I am
not randomly “attacking” innocent people by posting a defense of
myself and our work. I post to respond to the vicious, defamatory
lies made about me, my work and my husband's fine work... by these
known bullies and their continuing and very public effort to impugn our integrity and impede our
right to conduct business.
I respond to these people's
unwarranted attacks against us and believe anyone would do the same
if such lies were being spread about them online and for years.
I will never be bullied into silence.
