I don’t and won’t often do this, but I’m going to call out an author.
E.F. Turner has stolen from authors. I know of many, including myself, who post at Lush and oher erotic story sites. For an example, in her “Erotica Collection #9,” she has plagiarized my entire story, Island Encounter, only changing the names of the lead characters.
My story, Island Encounter, was posted at Lush in October 2011, as you can see on my submissions page. Her book was published in May of 2014, and it was hardly the only one stolen from other authors. Please spread the word; if you recognize a story, please leave me a comment or if you can contact the author, do so. Most stories seem to be in the BDSM and and Non-Consent categories.
I realize it’s a risk you take on the internet, posting things for free, but I’m not going to let someone take advantage of me if I can help it.
She’s on Goodreads and Facebook. I’m not asking anyone — in fact, I explicitly ask that you don’t — to bully or otherwise harass her. Pointing out the stolen stories is enough.
Wow, DM...I hope that (swear word) gets what is coming to him. I'm sorry.
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Thanks. I looked up E. F. Turner. It didn't come up. My GF Lexi has pulled her best series from the site for that reason.
You need to watch your language, Alan. I, personally, am a little shocked at what you said that that thieving little skanky cunt.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
If there is a filthier word than "cunt", she is it. Do you think she now knows she's a cunt, Alan?
It is so sad that some people must feel that they have nothing original to offer so they have to take on other people's stuff to make themselves look good or to get some sort of identity. What are they thinking? They want to be something or someone they aren't? Or, is it just a money grab? I understand that there are bad people out there. I also understand there are people that will use whatever or whomever they can to get what they want. I can see using someone else's idea as a catalyst for something to create, whether it be a song, a product, a story, or whatever. But just to basically copy and paste someone else's creativity and call it your own? I don't get it.
For the record, I've never tweeted before in my life, but this seemed like the right time to start, seeing as it's in support of my favorite author of historical satirical recipes.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
Totally outrageous, Alan. I just got caught up on FB - let me know if there's anything I can do.
I've had my bio plagiarized in conjunction with stories before as well. Amazon is good at pulling books once offered proof by the author/copyright owner. Unfortunately I've found that pulling bios on various websites isn't as straight forward or seen as critically. One time I just rewrote my own because I couldn't be bothered fighting it and wasn't particularly attached to the verbiage anyway.
With this particular plagiarist - I literally couldn't believe what I was reading when I learned she had conducted an interview, discussing how she was inspired to 'write' a book that she had actually stolen from another author. Balls.
I know that there was another thread where someone could search by title or author for one's stories on other sites...anybody remember that website address?
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As far as searching the web, you can use Google. Take an early, reasonably unique line from your story that doesn't involve character names or specific locations ( as these are changed by some thieves ) and surround the whole line in quotes so Google is searching for those words in that specific order.
Be very careful of any unknown sites that appear. Many of these are havens for malware. Don't go unless you have solid malware protection, and it's best to have ad-block + no-script as well. A lot of malware is being delivered via trojan-horse advertisements these days, and all you have to do on some of those is visit the page where the ad resides, if you allow it to load.
Finding something that's been stolen and posted to Amazon is a completely different beast. There's no real way to search, because Amazon is already doing its best to hide erotica from search results. Google doesn't have access to the "Look Inside" text.
Hasta la vista, baby.
