I have learned a bit more about the controversy: it appears that Scott Lynch may have been playing both women against each other. There are still significant issues with power differentials and Bear has in the past used her popularity & success against people, but it sounds like she may well be the victim of Lynch's manipulations nearly as much as Rowland is.

Or as someone on another forum put it: poly drama with an overlay of power & manipulation. I believe Rowland experienced what she claims, but I'm not convinced Bear is the only party here who should carry blame.

And it is interesting how much public attention is on Bear instead of Lynch...

It does seem that Bear is the one trying to smear other writers professionally by involving outside parties, so I think she deserves any pushback she's getting over it.

That is pretty much where my googling got me, Consuela. Lynch seems to be the one who has explicitly acted badly in everyone's accounts even without getting into who was manipulated

I know plenty of people who've been hurt by Bear, but there also seem to be stories about people who've been hurt by Rowland too. I don't know anything about Lynch.

Yeah, giant mess seems to be on the nose.

Thanks for that, Dana, I'll bear that in mind.

I haven't read any of Rowland, but I find the podcast she cohosts, Be The Serpent, entirely charming. Sigh.

I really like A Conspiracy of Truths and A Choir of Lies

And having spent another a Saturday mostly lazing around reading, finished The Angel of the Crows and it's very good. Addison says in her Author's Note that it started as Sherlock wingfic abd I'm glad she said so because I was certainly picturing Cumberbatch the whole time.

Or as someone on another forum put it: poly drama with an overlay of power & manipulation.

I have to admit, it read like every poly drama I have witnessed, down to the manipulation. The only extra thing was the power differential because they're all in the same industry .