This is sad on so many levels. someone plagerized part of my Thesis on Victomology (the first 12 pages in it entirety). They didn't even try to make it look like there own. Imaging being called by the President of the College asking to submit my orignal paper from 2 semesters prior. He wanted the marked up paper with the professor signature.

I was pissed it took 4 months of collecting research and 10 draft before i was comfortable with the final product for someone to just take my work and pass it off as there own.

I can't write to save my life. If its not a brief, a research paper, or some legal correspondence I'm useless. I know this so I didn't enter the contest. Why the hell can't people be more honest with themselves instead of messing up something that was supposed to be fun for everyone else.

Anyway all this to say I undestand why your upset and the contest is on hold now. I guess they really thought you wouldn't be checking whats going on your site

Tracy your probably right because i have a vivid imagination but when it comes to dialouge I can't get it right so I leave it to the experts and show my appreciation for their talent by buying their book.

But maybe I'll try one day and have you read it and tell me how to make it better

Tracy

that's really sad/pathetic and I'm pretty sure it's only a handful who attempted to plagiarise others works but you can't be too careful. I was very naive when I first bought a ebook (I actually like hardcopies but I do understand the benefits of ebooks) I just assumed they all would have some sort of copy right protection, but on another author site she told how one person bought her ebook and placed it on a piracy website by the time she was able to get it remove 40 copies were forwarded. hard times falls on everyone but why would some want to take credit for someone else work or basically steal someone financial benefit. we'll just patiently wait until you get everything sorted

Aww, that sucks! Butt-heads. Are you changing and/or extending the deadline? Or are you just putting it on hold indefinitely?

Could I invite Emily to a contest submissions dating tea party session, in which we just let go the inspiration by see some picture of strangers...
After the talent lead the tournament to the next morning by writing all that pass between the ears...& others...lol
Friendly yours of course!

Hi Tracy,

It's sad but true what people do. My books are sold in ebook format first. Someone was actually on the piracy site requesting my book Simply Beautiful the first day of the release. I won't even check anymore because it's so frustrating.

I get frustrated because the author puts all the time and work into the manuscript just for someone else to benefit from his or her work. Truly sad.

Serenity

I have a free story up on a website and half of story up on it also. I was going to complete the other story but I started to get nervous about the site and whether it was protecting folks work. My guess is, they aren't. So I've chucked up the one story as a possible lost, I can't seem to get them to take it down. The other one I completely stopped publishing any chapters on that site, they got some of it but I'll be damned if they get the rest. The rest of my work is stored in my computer. I really love writing and would love to share it with others but because of pirating, I've decided to just keep my writing to myself. It sucks because when you write you desire to share it an those folks that have plagarized other people's material need to be ashamed. The lack of integrity is just astounding. Everybody is so damn lazy and deceitful nowadays and I hate to say this but the internet makes it easy to for them to do this.
Hope the contest gets back on track soon Tracy.