Yesterday, I was out with an attack from the mother of us all. If you follow me on Facebook, or especially if you have been around on Facebook you will know what I am talking about. For the rest of you, you can just wonder.
So what happened?!?!?
The thief, that stole stories, has come back out and attacked one of my friends.
Not acceptable.
Not at all.
So. I will tell you what I have gathered. A lot of people are angry. So angry that they are taking action. Which I full heartedly agree with. They are keeping this clean folks, we are not descending down to her level. But we refuse to be silent, since that has done nothing but make her think she can continue to do things.
I seriously believe that this person is young, or young in mind. The way she goes about things is not mature, nor is it something that a bunch of adults need to deal with, but since there seems no stopping, there is a time that you have to say stop.
But, Kitty, you are replying to her! You are feeding the troll, you are giving her the attention she craves!
I will answer to this. I ignored her. My friends ignored her. And she didn’t quit. We took the very high road. And she did not learn a lesson. Instead she acted out on accounts she has POSTED that are hers but she is not able to access. This smacks of a young person who does not think the consequences of her actions all the way through. It may have been good enough in school, but this is the real life, and the world doesn’t operate like that.
She has been warned. But she has not learned a lesson. She has somehow got it in her head that this is allowable. That she has some right by being published on Amazon that allows her to be better than the rest of us. That she is right.
I’m sorry, but lessons in real life are about to commence. We are taking a stand, and asking others to join us in this. Over on Bertie Bott’s site, there is a petition going on. I highly recommend you go there and participate in it. One stand instead of many might get the attention of FanFiction.
There are advocators for the rights of FanFiction writers. While I get traffic from FanFiction and use them to gain interest from stories, their attitude that FanFiction Writers have no rights, has gained me nothing but disgust for them.
So here is my plan. I will reply to Bertie‘s petition. Then I will do my own campaigning, taking this morning to report each and every story. I know there is more plagiarizing going on, and I have asked for people to read her stories, to check for their own being stolen. There are storylines I have seen being taken from stories I have read on Twilight, she is now writing for other fandoms to help hide her tracks. It isn’t working very well if I noticed. So I will report the stories.
If I am taken off FanFiction since I have the audacity to complain about another author, say la vie. Less work for me to update on. I will NOT be working any new stories to the site. The stories that are there, well they will be stopped soon. Sorry for the FanFiction readers, but this is my stand.
FanFiction repeatedly erases others works without the courtesy of warning them as an adult will. They refuse to be adults, so why should I continue to treat them like the children they are. Will this hurt me? Maybe. But I like to think I am established enough to make that decision. I will post a summary of any stories I write so they can be teased with what they are missing.
I am taking a stand, and I am tired of the idiocy that has overtaken the world. Plagiarism is WRONG. It is stealing and there is no religion in the world that accepts this as acceptable. This person thinks she is above the law, above the acceptable society acceptable norm. She thinks she is above us all, and treats the rules as not even a guideline to what is acceptable.
Basically. I will be reposting on my reblog all of the responses to all of this, and I highly recommend that you read them all. I also highly recommend you sign up on Bertie‘s petition. And finally. The person who has borne this attack.
Go to her site and follow her. Do it because she is a kickass author that deserves none of this.
Do it because it is the right thing to do.
Do it to show your support behind someone who only defended herself and had her stories removed from FanFiction.
Again, I am tired of this, and I am done with so much of it. And I will do what I can before I am probably taken off. I will break TOS in FanFiction to post on EVERY story I have about what has happened. What I think. So expect to see this post everywhere.
And if you don’t believe all this, I would like to redirect you to the actual exchanges I had with her on the subject that I posted here before:
For anyone needing these screens shots and so on, I have the actual emails I am able to forward on this.
Also. Sorry guys. But I will NOT be posting any stories until this is taken care of. Especially not on FanFiction. I know you guys are thinking this is a punishment, but hell. I am taking a stand and doing on of the things I think will tell of my stand on this. It is one of the ways I am trying to help. I will not post a single story or chapter on any site until this is resolved.
There will be radio silence until this is taken care of. The only things you will hear about is about this situation.
This is my line in the sand, and I will not back down. That line might as well be in concrete.
Thanks for your support.
Wendy aka Kittyinaz.
Although, I am sad to hear about you not posting, I COMPLETELY SUPPORT your decision and I hope she/this is taken care of soon. ~kinnik
Thank you. Please help, and leave a reply on Bertie’s petition on her site.
I understand your decision and support your stand. Although, to be honest, I’m hoping that you’ll be continuing to write down your stories as you think of them so when you finally do post your stories again, there will be oodles of chapters posted for the stories. I’ll hope that the ‘mad plagiarizer’ will finally stop being a childish person and stop copying others works and come up with something of her own. Its a shame that her beta hasn’t told her to stop plagiarizing or refusing to beta her work until she comes up with something that’s her own work. I’m going to cross my fingers that you will be able to do your postings again soon.
I will continue my work, but I will not post a single thing until this is taken care of. Please do what you can and sign Bertie’s petition and do what you can to help. This was an unfair action and I am tired of other’s rights to be taken advantage of.
Thanks for spreading the word and taking a stand… Also appreciate the ‘shout-out’ to my petition!
It is only the right thing to do right now. Ignoring did not work, maybe this will.
I have to hand it to each of you ladies, you have handled this remarkably well. I have been a lurker for so long, but I just had to say well done. It is never acceptable to steal someone else’s work and pass it off as your own. To become vicious and go after the people you steal from…..well….it makes my blood boil, and I am not even a writer. I feel for each of you because I know this has to be hard. This was the final push I needed to start following all of you away from ffn. I have reported a few people for plagiarism and sadly they rarely do anything. As soon as I can compose myself enough to keep it clean I will be adding my thoughts to the petition. I may not be a writer, but I respect each person that does take the time to pour their hearts and themselves into their writing. You don’t get paid for what you are writing, but you definitely should. I think each of you have every right to be ticked off and curse to your hearts content…..pretty sure you probably do….my point is, you have all handled this with grace.
I look at it this way, y’all just kicked my lazy butt in gear to follow your sites….it is a win-win for me. Ok, done now. (:
I support your descision!
As upset I am that you will not be updating ( Because I was totally getting into your Mummy/Twilight story) I completely agree with you and have already signed the petition and also sent the admin. of fanfic a email complaining about the unjust treatment of Harley. I stand 100% behind you and can only hope that I have helped in some small way.
hi. I’m not talented with words in any way whatsoever BUT I can see talent and this group of women has it in spades. your writing is better than most of the trite I pay $2.99 for on amazon or iBook. I would gladly contribute in any way I can, including donating $$ just to keep you honing your gift. Fanfic.net was good in the beginning, when none of us knew about you wonderful writers; however, it’s time is over. we can now find your blogs and you’ve made your own community separate from fanfic.net. I completely support you and everyone pulling your stories down from there, I don’t feel that place is necessary anymore with all it’s negativity allowing annoniminous garbage comments and it being an apparent theives guild more than a writing community anymore. I will continue to follow everyone here on WordPress and I will be moody and whiney because I’ll miss your wonderful updates to your novels (they aren’t stories, they are NOVELS, beautifully written, etc.etc. here is where I show my inability to form my thoughts like you do). I WILL support the petition, even though I am mostly unfocused and blabby. you are all the best
Signed the petition. If there is anything more I can do to help, besides the reporting on FanFic I have dabbled in already, just say the word. Any of you. As I said in Bertie’s post, this plagiarism business is disgusting and truly getting out of hand.
If there’s any horseshite you all need to comb through from the ones behind the plagiarism, I’d gladly help to take some of that off of your already busy hands.
On a totally unrelated note, I demand more pictures of Murphy. I am in love with that cutie-pie <3
I will have updated pics of Murphy soon. He is playing, and actually starting to grow his hair. It will be done as you ask, milady!
Color me satisfied 😉 I am glad it is going so well with Murphy. You are a great women, Kitty, and don’t you forget that!
most sad that this had happened to your hard work for all of you! but understand and agree with you as well. hope real action is taking against the cheat. I will sign any petition I need to for you will do all I can to help.
While I personally prefer to read fanfics at the Fanfiction website, I think you are doing the right, and only possible, thing in this cruddy situation. So, I’ll just keep an eye on your site here for my Tin Man updates as opposed to Fanfiction.com. No biggie and I hope the creep doing this will get punished soon!
I’m aghast that this troll continues to exist in our world. Her inability to believe that she cannot randomly copy any authors work then paste it together as her own original work shows her complete immaturity. Obviously the plagiariser believes that the best way to justify her actions is to attack those who have called her out on her actions. As a long time reader of your fanfiction I fully support any endeavours you undertake to take back your creations from this troll. Totally understand that you have to remain focussed on this & look forward to admiring & supporting what action/s you initiate.