Out of the looney bin, into the home for "special people"
As discussed here last week, Authors Market, a front for per-unit vanity Publish America, slammed science fiction and fantasy writers and the genre as a whole as the refuge of the incompetent and the plagiarist, in an attempt to discredit anti-scam watchdogs like A. C. Crispin and Victoria Strauss.

After some complaints from PA "authors" who themselves write science fiction and fantasy, PA deleted the complaints from their message board and rewrote the text of Authors Market to make it better. Of course, they actually made it worse.

Only Trust Your Own Eyes:

Now, here's a word of caution. The vast, vast majority of SciFi and Fantasy writers are serious, honest, great artists. They have spent tons of time working on their books, just as hard as writers on any other genre. They are positive, resolute, hard-working, earnest folks, who are finding it just as hard as anyone else to break through the barrier put up by the publishing dinosaurs.

 But, alas, the SciFi and Fantasy genres have also attracted some of the lesser gods, writers who erroneously believe that SciFi, because it is set in a distant future, does not require believable storylines, or that Fantasy, because it is set in conditions that have never existed, does not need believable every-day characters. Obviously, and fortunately, there are not too many of them, but the ones who are indeed not ashamed to be seen as literary parasites and plagiarists, are usually the loudest, just like the proverbial wheel that needs the most grease.

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The vast majority of serious SciFi and Fantasy authors frown at this. They go to the supermarket, open that cheap book, see what these writers got away with, and they feel their frustration rise. "Why were these people published? My own book is at least two levels better." And more often than not they are right.

This last graf is the worst. Not only are they blasting the same advocates that they did previously, they are now claiming that the advocates, who are part of an official SFWA anti-scam program, are somehow universally disliked incompetents on the fringes on the genre. As they say on lawyer shows on tv, "nothing could be further from the truth."

Not to mention this: "two levels better"? WTF? Are these people thermostats? Dungeons & Dragons-obsessed nine year-olds? Scientologists? Martians? Who the hell talks like that!

They also added this new wrinkle:

And then there's a third category, a small band of chest-thumping writers who never got any farther than an e-book, almost exclusively in the SciFi sector. To the unsuspecting novice, they may make it look as if they have actually achieved something, enough to elevate them to the status of now being a publishing expert. Theirs is a parade that deserves to be rained on. In the book industry, being published as an e-book writer amounts to not being published at all.

This last is a reference to David L. Kuzminski, who runs the anti-scam site Preditors And Editors. PA flipped out after being listed as "not recommended" and it has been a war against sanity for them ever since They even ended up squatting on preditorsandeditors.com and other domains in an attempt to mess with the real P&E.

But the Authors Market has yet more to say:

But what is wrong with the other loudmouths, the ones who looted, leeched, or plagiarized their way to local stardom? What's wrong with them is that they claim a mantle of expertise about writing or being a writer in general that they don't possess. Many unpublished authors wrote a much better, and much more original, book than they did, and they know it.
 
PA is beneath contempt.