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melissa wrote:
TRICIA GOYER! You know what? You may feel like you don't have to answer to us, but you will have to answer to God! You were dishonest, you stoled direct quotes and switched around the words and meanings to fit your own agenda. How can you steal quotes and while doing so, do it all in the name of God?!?!?! Not only did you steal quotes, but the only thing you can offer to these girls is a copy of your book?!?! What the hell is up with that? What is your book about? Yeah, I was a teen mom... I messed up and had pre-marital sex, but now I'm a devout Christian and I make sure to send my little baby to Sunday school every Sunday and now God has forgiven me and everyone at church loves me because now I know how terrible I was to have a child out of wedlock!

hey melissa so not what we stand for here, it's not terrible to have a child out of wedlock, that message is what we are trying to fight....

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No, re-read it, it's not clear, but melissa'a not saying that, she asking if that's the content of the book. (Took me like five read throughs to figure that out.)
She just didn't word it very clearly.

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yeah. melissa was being sarcastic. sometime inflection can be hard to read online

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that is so fucked. has anyone contacted an attorney???

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TRICIA GOYER! You know what? You may feel like you don't have to answer to us, but you will have to answer to God! You were dishonest, you stoled direct quotes and switched around the words and meanings to fit your own agenda. How can you steal quotes and while doing so, do it all in the name of God?!?!?! Not only did you steal quotes, but the only thing you can offer to these girls is a copy of your book?!?! What the hell is up with that? What is your book about? Yeah, I was a teen mom... I messed up and had pre-marital sex, but now I'm a devout Christian and I make sure to send my little baby to Sunday school every Sunday and now God has forgiven me and everyone at church loves me because now I know how terrible I was to have a child out of wedlock!

hey melissa so not what we stand for here, it's not terrible to have a child out of wedlock, that message is what we are trying to fight....

I'm sorry... it was two o'clock in the morning and my wording and punctuation was a bit off... I was being sarcastic when I said all of those things. I'm sorry if you felt offended.

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melissa wrote:
TRICIA GOYER! You know what? You may feel like you don't have to answer to us, but you will have to answer to God! You were dishonest, you stoled direct quotes and switched around the words and meanings to fit your own agenda. How can you steal quotes and while doing so, do it all in the name of God?!?!?! Not only did you steal quotes, but the only thing you can offer to these girls is a copy of your book?!?! What the hell is up with that? What is your book about? Yeah, I was a teen mom... I messed up and had pre-marital sex, but now I'm a devout Christian and I make sure to send my little baby to Sunday school every Sunday and now God has forgiven me and everyone at church loves me because now I know how terrible I was to have a child out of wedlock!

hey melissa so not what we stand for here, it's not terrible to have a child out of wedlock, that message is what we are trying to fight....

I'm sorry... it was two o'clock in the morning and my wording and punctuation was a bit off... I was being sarcastic when I said all of those things. I'm sorry if you felt offended.

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ok, so i guess an apology is in order melissa, i'm really and trult sorry i misinterpreteted your response, forgive me?

I've just been on edge about this whole thing... ya know?

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TRICIA GOYER: If you have any respect for us at all, then you need to come back and address this thread. We deserve an explanation.

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I e-mailed Tricia and requested a copy of the book because I can't open the link. My bf shut off my downloading capabilities. Apparently we were getting too many viruses. LOL. Sooo, I can't really comment until I read the book. She said she was sending me one... so it's just a matter of time before I find out what's going on here. I'm so freakin' confused. :?

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bluemystique82 wrote:
I e-mailed Tricia and requested a copy of the book because I can't open the link. My bf shut off my downloading capabilities. Apparently we were getting too many viruses. LOL. Sooo, I can't really comment until I read the book. She said she was sending me one... so it's just a matter of time before I find out what's going on here. I'm so freakin' confused. :?

is she sending a bill with it?

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I sure hope not... or I'll be sending it back. I was under the assumption that she was offering these books for FREE to the site that she quoted.

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I got a copy of the book, (for free) most of it is quotes and sayings from fellow mama's and her life story didnt read through just yet waiting for some quiet time... I did enjoy reading some of the fellow GM'ers quotes though! but not some of the other * shrugs*

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ya i saw an ad for "focus on the family" in a newspaper and said "what the fuck??" in the middle of my high school library...ooops :) anyway i called them and had a looong conversation about equality for EVERYONE! ..men..women...gay .. straight.. and i made the guy speechless a few times ...it felt good to tell him how i felt. And then reading this? this is just ridiculous..unbelievable. Good for you whoever is doing something about it!

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so tricia sent me an email saying that they will take my poem out of the next printing....

like that somehow makes it all better....

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Tricia- have you contacted a lawyer yet? From what I can gather from infomally talking to people who know stuff about this- you definitly have a case.

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Tricia, tell her you want a cut of the royalties from the book sales, or you will sue.
I told my dad (he's an author) about this and he is LIVID.

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uh this makes me sick. i finally read through this whole thread today. I remember when she first posted at the old board lloking for submissions. it was about the same time Deborah Davis was collecting submissions for her book. Deborah Davis was actually the one to post in Tricia's thread asking about the books content and saying hey isn't that a christian publisher. if I remember right trica said yes she writes christian books and gave kinda vauge answers about whether this book would be christian themed. then gms started saying publicly on the board don't use any quote by me in her thread.

Those of you looking to take legal action against Tricia Goyer I would recommend contacting Deborah Davis to see if she remembers that thread & if she'd be willing to be a witness since she was there when this all went down.

http://www.teenmombook.com/

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and I don't think amazon let's authors personally delete bad reviews. I think what happened is Tricia contacted amazon claiming we're spreading lies about her and pointed them to this thread as proof that we have some kid of master plan to destroy her and they took the reviews down. gawd i wish we had the content from the old boards still. the fucking proof is right there in that first thread by Tricia. people said don't quote me. maybe someone should also email Bee Lavender & explain what's going on & see if she saved the content of the old boards when she did the switch over.

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THIS IS A REALLY OLD THREAD. But I just wanted to say I was all tripped out when I read it because I went with a friend I just met to something called MOPS and got that stupid book recently. The only thing I could read was the quotes because everything else rubbed me the wrong way. It's crazy to think that some of these GMs were quoted in there! Especially without their permission. Does anyone know what ever happened with everything??

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