This is a revised version of a previous video about Gloria Tesch and her misleading, abusive, and absurd promotional tactics. The video I had up before contained some video clips and photographs belonging to the Tesch crew, and though I used them for commentary and criticism as allowed under the Fair Use clause, Tesch and co. hit it with a copyright infringement claim. This new video is both a response to that and an attempt to forward my original message without using their material to do it.
Gloria Tesch has employed abusive, misleading, and hilarious tactics to promote her self-published novels, up to and including a claim that she is the World's Youngest Novelist. Now her wild claims include movie producing credits and "celebrity" status outlined in a book trailer she posted online.
I left a YouTube comment on her video and she censored it because I pointed out her lies. So I made this video because I just felt like having my say and--dare I say it?--giving her some advice about how she should be handling her promotional ventures if she doesn't want to embarrass herself.
The links you may want:
Gloria Tesch's Maradonia-Saga "Book Trailer": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oa9ifwLmU
Gloria Tesch's TV Show Intro (with some stolen images and music by 3 Doors Down):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6zjRPIr0CY
Gloria Tesch's website:
http://www.maradonia.com
Gloria Tesch's movie website:
http://www.maradonia-themovie.com
Gloria Tesch's promotional author Facebook account
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Worlds-Youngest-Novelist-Gloria-Tesch-Author-of...
Gloria Tesch's Twitter (where she once infamously announced that she can't hear anyone over the sound of how awesome she is):
http://twitter.com/maradoniasaga
TV Tropes entry for Maradonia Saga:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MaradoniaSaga
Amazon.com reviews of her first book:
http://www.amazon.com/Maradonia-Seven-Bridges-Gloria-Tesch/product-reviews/06...
Amazon.com reviews of her second book:
http://www.amazon.com/Maradonia-Gold-Ophir-Gloria-Tesch/product-reviews/06920...
Yahoo! Answers link where she shamelessly answered her own question to promote herself and claim to be the youngest novelist:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090219200656AApjd4a
WikiAnswers link where the admins had to close the thread for abuse because she kept changing the answer for "Who is the world's youngest novelist?"
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_the_world%27s_youngest_novelist
And the history where you can see how many times she changed it (and what they had to do to stop her and what they had to say about it):
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Special:Changes&cv=question:Who_is_the_world%27...
An interesting YouTube video about Fair Use, for the record:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
Oh my god I love your voice!
ilaniamge 5 days ago
@ilaniamge I'm still surprised every time someone says that on one of my talking videos. Thanks. . . .
swankivy 5 days ago
@swankivy Sorry, it just sounds like mine ;)
Also, I sent a message
ilaniamge 5 days ago
@ilaniamge Well hopefully it will still be awesome when you are in your mid thirties like me. Haha.
swankivy 5 days ago
Enjoyed the review :) Gloria Tesch fascinates me. Sometimes I can barely imagine that this is all real, and then I realize that you can't script shit this crazy. She might be a psychotic egomaniac, but she's not boring :)
x3LittleRedWriterx3 5 days ago
@x3LittleRedWriterx3 Thanks--yeah, it really is quite a bit more nutty than I'd think one could make up. But since all my references check out, you can reassure yourself that it's 100% real. :o
swankivy 5 days ago