Gwen Gale/Heidi Wyss's Gormglaith Review

Gwen Gale/Heidi Wyss wrote a preposterous article about herself on Wikipedia, giving the impression that she was a noted auteur and that her laughable gibberish tome, Gormglaith, was a significant work of literature. The pages were eventually deleted from Wikipedia, and the fact that she had used Wikipedia for self-promotion purposes became a Wikipedia scandal. Gale/Wyss had her admin rights on Wikipedia suspended for a while but quickly bounced back to start a new reign of Wikipedia tyranny.

The text of Heidi's Wikipedia entry about herself can still be found on other websites. Let's take a look at it : 

Wyss was educated in Geneva and in the United Kingdom. She has worked as an histologist and technical writer. Her first novel Gormglaith, published in 2007, has been described as a "Radical lesbian separatist cult hit set in a plausible future with a witchy bent", "...like a female Finnegans Wake..." along with "touches of Tolkien" and reminiscent "...in some ways of the very intricate work of Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's Keltiad novels."

Where do these quotes come from? Did Gwen Gale/Heidi Wyss just make them up? No, indeed. They are completely authentic. The quotes comes from a review of her book on the website WomenWriters. Gwen Gale/Heidi Wyss quotes extremely selectively from the review, however, contriving to give a completely misleading impression. If you read the full review, you see that the reviewer said the book was so bad, she couldn't actually bring herself to read it!

"For my part, I had trouble getting into it. It isn't just a book -- it's a project. From the first page, it was incomprehensible and there was nothing there to draw me in, or make me care enough to dig in."

After that, the reviewer obviously feels a bit sorry for the hapless Heidi and throws in a few ambiguous compliments at the end to soothe her wounded ego. "It felt like a female Finnegan's Wake, with all that implies, good and bad. It had touches of Tolkien and reminded me in some ways of the very intricate work of Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's Keltiad novels." 

Heidi Wyss/Gwen Gale picks out isolated phrases from the devastating review of her gibberish and uses them to construct a grossly dishonest impression.