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THE BOOK: Along Came Cindy, which will be a combo of my offline and online memoir sites.
THE PLAGIARIZED SITE: Our Town is a memoir told via my childhood POV. One particular section is titled Haunted Buford.
THE NEWSPAPER EDITOR: The paper is small, but it has been in publication since Heck was a pup, is sponsored by ads from the largest businesses in town, and the editor is no less than a correspondent of the Atlanta Journal Constitution--she says.
WHAT HAPPENED: Not long ago I announced on AW that this newspaper wanted to publish one of my essays. Whoopee do da and all that. Not now. I started to send a PM about that essay and found she had tried to contact me in October this year about publishing my Haunted Buford section. Twice. And I had somehow missed the PMs. So I sent her a reply. She didn't answer. Being the suspicious person I am I clicked to the newspaper and lo and behold she had published every single one of my ghost story articles. Without permission. I can understand she wanted to use them for her Halloween issue, but she needed my okay first. Duh. I sent her another PM. I posted on her timeline and our towns group a "I PM'd you," but she ignored all my attempts to contact her. During all these attempts she was online and apparently ignoring me. So I went back to the paper and wrote a comment below my stories warning her not to publish anything else from my websites. Not that there's anything I could do about it. I certainly don't have the funds for a lawyer and the FBI intelligence property investigators wouldn't be interested in such small fish. What I could do is call her out on our town's group.
This theft, and the special images a "friend" stole from my Brandon Lee site, is why I don't trust anyone anymore.
THE PLAGIARIZED SITE: Our Town is a memoir told via my childhood POV. One particular section is titled Haunted Buford.
THE NEWSPAPER EDITOR: The paper is small, but it has been in publication since Heck was a pup, is sponsored by ads from the largest businesses in town, and the editor is no less than a correspondent of the Atlanta Journal Constitution--she says.
WHAT HAPPENED: Not long ago I announced on AW that this newspaper wanted to publish one of my essays. Whoopee do da and all that. Not now. I started to send a PM about that essay and found she had tried to contact me in October this year about publishing my Haunted Buford section. Twice. And I had somehow missed the PMs. So I sent her a reply. She didn't answer. Being the suspicious person I am I clicked to the newspaper and lo and behold she had published every single one of my ghost story articles. Without permission. I can understand she wanted to use them for her Halloween issue, but she needed my okay first. Duh. I sent her another PM. I posted on her timeline and our towns group a "I PM'd you," but she ignored all my attempts to contact her. During all these attempts she was online and apparently ignoring me. So I went back to the paper and wrote a comment below my stories warning her not to publish anything else from my websites. Not that there's anything I could do about it. I certainly don't have the funds for a lawyer and the FBI intelligence property investigators wouldn't be interested in such small fish. What I could do is call her out on our town's group.
This theft, and the special images a "friend" stole from my Brandon Lee site, is why I don't trust anyone anymore.
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