This aspiring author faked her own death as a way of hiking book sales
Now that's a hardcore dedication to getting your sales up...
We've heard of marketers using some scandalous methods of getting their sales up, but this story is a whole other level of scandal.
Not to mention, complete and utter disrespect.
Aspiring author Susan Meachen was announced as dead in 2020 by a woman who claimed to be her daughter.
She led people to believe that her mother had passed on due to suicide. After confirming her mother's death on Facebook, there were some attempts at trying to market her mother's books.
For one, she shared that unless things changed with book sales, all of her mother's books would go unpublished.
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And just like that, a couple of days after New Year's, Susan Meachen made her own social media announcement.
One that has left people shocked and triggered.
She announced that she is alive and that her family made the move to handle this situation in a way that they believed was best for her.
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Both her peers and followers, as well as people who have heard about her story, have been open and honest about what they think of her.
None of them have anything good to say - and we cannot say we blame them.
Her actions have completely hurt people who have lost loved ones to suicide.
She abused their trust and we're not sure what will happen next, but we hope she is held accountable for her actions.
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