Male-named M/M romance/scifi author Santino Hassell is actually a pathologically lying frau named Alicia Torres.
An author I follow on Facebook vaguebooked about "this whole Santino scandal" without explaining it. He explained it in a private message.
While it's no surprise that yet another "M/M author" is a fraud (I despise that term as a sanitized straight women-placating term to avoid "gay fiction"), this one is as tawdry as JT Leroy/Laura Albert fraud, but without the raccoon penis bone necklaces.
Here's a collection of tweets and screengrabs from multiple people outing this author as a straight woman who defrauded GoFundMe donors with fake liver cancer, among many other lies.
I'd never heard of this author, since I don't follow the specious underworld of women writing stupid 'romances" But this gal/guy's books are quite popular. She basically used her hubby as a front for her fake "male" author lie.
Damn fraus!
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 13, 2018 12:13 AM
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Santino Hassell? Really? Why does "he" have an Italian first name and German last name?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 10, 2018 8:50 PM
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He should be a Go Go boy at the Eagle. He would get lots of tips and get out of bankruptcy in no time.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 10, 2018 8:51 PM
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Wrong thread, but amusingly appropriate!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 10, 2018 8:53 PM
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Fake Santino Hassell's GoodReads page:
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 10, 2018 8:56 PM
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"His" stories were actually pretty good, but my bullshit detector went straight up when "he" would never show his face on social media. Not surprised by this in the slightest.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 11, 2018 11:27 PM
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As long as the guy who writes all those parody novels about having things shoved up his butt is actually male, I'm OK.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 11, 2018 11:57 PM
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It's idiotic to even attempt an identity swap these days. It's extremely hard to make it all work without getting caught. We've had these fake male gay romance writers before; Josh Lanyon is probably the biggest one getting caught (and her novels are apparently still selling very well). Even though I sort of understand why they do it at the same time I don't understand it at all. If you write well you will sell. Women behind the Cut & Run Series, Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux, have shown that you can write as a woman and still succeed as a gay romance writer. I'm a gay man and I've no trouble saying the Cut & Run series is probably my favorite light gay action / romance series.
Obviously with Hassell and Torres things are a bit darker since the couple has possibly committed a fraud with their Go Fund Me fundraising. If true they are in deep shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 12, 2018 12:17 AM
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[quote]While it's no surprise that yet another "M/M author" is a fraud (I despise that term as a sanitized straight women-placating term to avoid "gay fiction"
Why do you despise the term fraud?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 12, 2018 12:24 AM
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No, silly. "M/M author" is the despised term. Apologies for not being clear enough to you, even though I was to others.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 13, 2018 12:13 AM
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