It's hard to say, honestly, but I'm in no way a public figure.
I cannot imagine how much many pages this article would have to be if Steven King were to investigate every persistent critic.
But comparing this even to much more moderate degrees of fame, I feel like we end up in Phil Fish territory, wherein the more you engage, the more you sustain the unwanted attention, and you end up creating a negative feedback loop wherein more engagement equates to even greater attempts at having your livelihood destroyed.
Ultimately, she ignored every good piece of advice she was given, and ended up in the situation as a result of it. In the future, I assume she altogether skips the blogger distribution up front and just writes, which is what she should have done in this case.
I'm not faulting her for being crazy, mind you... we're all nuts in different ways, I just don't think that it's fair to downvote the OP for calling her crazy when that agrees with the author's own self-diagnosis.
My general belief is if you want to destroy sometimes livelihood, do it with your real identity or expect it to be discovered.