As an extensively published, well-known writer and magazine editor for decades, and a one-time ''Top Ranked Number One Author" on the Fanstory site, I can tell you with authority that Fanstory is NOT a legitimate writing site. It's a narcissistic little online reality show run by spiteful, cowardly, no-talent schoolyard bullies. With a few notable exceptions, most of the writing there is pure unpublishable garbage.
Fanstory's owner and Supreme Ruler For Life, Tom Ens, is a despotic, draconian internet scam-artist who rules his little fantasy kingdom through fear, intimidation, repression of intelligent thoughts and ideas, and the deliberate encouragement of competitive discord between members.
A big part of his well-developed strategy is to divide and rule, just like a dictatorship, keeping members in line under the constant threat of Big Brother watching. This maniac has gone so far as to imply that he monitors the private email accounts of members, in order to revoke their membership for violating his ''site terms'' and speaking out about his atrocities, even in private.
Fanstory is an Orwellian nightmare. It's owner works his malevolent little con-game through obvious favoritism to a few no-talent cronies and the iron-fisted enforcement of all sorts of arbitrary little rules, regulations and ''site terms'' which are exclusively and entirely subject to his personal interpretation.
Like the Wizard of Oz, this creep has been able to get away with terrorizing his shivering minions from behind a curtain of anonymity for years now. Most of the members don't even know that the draconian "Tom" who threatens them with expulsion for the most petty of infractions is a real person. In his narcissistic little fantasy bubble of illusory omnipotence, this money-hungry weirdo and his unfortunate subjects seem to have lost touch with the reality that there are real consequences in the real world outside of Fanstory, where unprincipled scam-artists like this can and will be held accountable for their crimes.
I, for one, am in the process of initiating a lawsuit against this abomination of a ''writer's site'' and its owner, Tom Ens for the many absurd outrages committed against me and my work during my time as a ''Top Ranked'' member there.
If you're looking for a real, legitimate writer's workshop online, avoid Fanstory like the Black Hole of Calcutta. Its advertising policy borders on criminally misleading, and the whole thing just stinks to high heaven.
Don't drink the Fanstory Kool Aid, or you will regret it.
I agree 100%, FanStory and Tom Ens are complete scams and a fraud. DO NOT join and write the BBB in NJ to complain as they are not a freedom of speech friendly site, they encourage cyber bullying and these forum people run the site of the ### owner,
F...K YOU TOM ENS! You thief Mother F, ...ker!
Tom Ens is a scam artist, and a fraud. Report Tom Ens the owner of Fanstory.com to BBB of New Jersey (Trenton, NJ) 1700 Whitehorse Hamilton Square Road Suite D-5 Trenton, NJ [protected] Phone: [protected] Fax: [protected] Email: info@trenton.bbb.org Web: www.trenton.bbb.org
please contact me so I can speak to you in private sueprevezer@hotmail.com
Entry of writing contest is somehow rigged of utmost Fan of Stories
to Ptolemy
Every attempt this morning has been met with misinformation regarding my recently renewed account. I am frustrated and want a refund of the $99 2 year subscription fee.
These people have it wrong. I have been a member of FanStory since 2006. You won't see me in the list of 'ranked' writers because the ranking is based on the volume posted. It has no benefit except a statue at the end of the year.
Yet, as an un-ranked writer, I have won several Site contests that pay $100 to the winner. The best part of that? There is no entry fee for the big site contests, you just have to be a decent writer. I've made friends from all over the country and many from other countries, some of whom I have met.