The Predator Editor Creditor
predatoreditor.bsky.social
The Predator Editor Creditor
@predatoreditor.bsky.social
A group of anonymous writers seeking to inform the writing community about a preditory editor who has damaged our careers

We do not do this for retribution, but to prevent them from doing this to other people
Our current thought is hopefully some people will watch Charlie more closely and Charlie will hesitate to do this again, to someone else. If that is all we accomplish here, that is enough.
June 10, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Given the amount of hatred aimed at this account currently, none of us are willing to continue running it. Even if we presented our evidence now, we would be accused of fabricating it. Unfortunately, we did not plan this well and planning for Indigo's crisis wasn't possible.
June 10, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The evidence isn't fabricated, unfortunately it is very real

We did not, however, do any of the screenshot editing required to protect our identies beforehand. Mostly from a lack of volunteers to risk being potentially outed

ONE of us has stepped forward. They are editing as I type. Patience
June 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It will be coming. The evidence we have requires editing to remove details that would identify members of our group

We really don't want to deal with what this account has been dealing with on our main accounts
June 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Pics and receipts are coming. I've had a couple people not even associated with this account reach out and say they are getting random attacks, so one of us is willing to take the potential hit

The avatar was a bad choice. It was a meme we found and didn't see the fine text, we're sorry. Changing
June 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I was just dealing with one for the last hour and finally blocked them. They were not listening or communicating. Honestly I think they were a lot angrier than I was. I was just tired of their constant pings and refusal to read the entire skeet
June 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I've seen a lot of that from them, but admittedly it's been almost two years for me. It's possible they've stopped calling out people who mildly offend them publicly and started doing... this

Some of our members are much more recent to this story than I am. The older of us wish we'd spoken sooner
June 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's happened a few times. I was witness to I think three before it happened to me

It looks very different in there than it does on this end
June 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I wish check through the exchanges and see if there is anything that won't be too identifying, but I can't promise anything. If Charlie figures out who that screenshot came from, none of us want their attack dogs on our personal pages
June 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It's probably worth noting that on Charlie's end, it probably looks quite different. They will have painted themselves the victims to... whatever they said we did

Which we didn't. It was so bizarre from our angle, as well as painful. We all really loved Charlie before these blindside attacks
June 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Admittedly, they may have deleted the receipts on their end in the Discord, but they did call out tweets pretty regularly on Twitter. I don't know if they're still doing them on Bluesky, but I assume
June 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
That is not what the abuse was
June 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm a survivor of emotional, physical, and psychological abuse in addition to this editor's emotional abuse

I know what it looks like from the inside, do you?
June 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It wasn't 24. I did say "around" but if it pleases you,they say it was 27
June 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
No, but abuse is abuse is abuse

And people do always come for the victims more than the abuser
June 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I said seven, and that manuscript, the person in question would have been fine with a dozen, but around two dozen did feel excessive for "ready to publish"
June 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It's my understanding that if a survivor or a victim steps forward, even anonymously, it might be wise to listen to them

Hi. I'm a survivor and I am shielding the others who are still standing too close to the pain of what happened
June 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In their Discord and on their socials
June 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
When I started working with Charlie they were claiming they could do better. Did they stop doing that? I haven't been near their account in almost two years
June 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Charlie pretty much bullied a few of us about this. When those argued back, Charlie belittled them

All of us chose to do what was right for our books. While we don't have any idea why Charlie suddenly attacked us, we've speculated that might have been why. Or about four other things we don't know
June 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We're not trying to ruin their livelihood anymore than Charlie tried to ruin ours
June 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We want to raise awareness. You can find the receipts from Charlie (or possibly Felix) if you're looking for them
June 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Missing around seven things seems forgivable in a Big 4 published book these days. That was a book Charlie had declared ready for immediate publication
June 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM