It’s been one week exactly since I first Googled this phrase and found Anthony. This weekend marks the first time that I’ve been able to look at this situation rationally, even amusedly. I guess because the entire Alex Anthony franchise popped like a freakin’ balloon in under a week. But it also marks the first time that I Googled the fallout with any real commitment, since reading about it made me go blind with anger. I knew from my blog that you guys and others pledged mad support and outrage, and rightly so, for this issue is much bigger than this one instance. But I had NO. I. DEA. that your work had made such an impact. I read the forum on Amazon. I read all the bookseller reviews, which were like official statements in a damning class action suit. I looked for any evidence of her fan base and pages, but they’ve been taken down. I’ve only seen one fan of hers defend her stance, and that was in one of my fan’s rebuttal.
Whereas her work kinda/sorta came down at first, it is now completely removed from all outlets that I can see. And I put that all down to outraged phone calls, reviews and emails. I myself has almost no impact when I first contacted them, and was given vague assurances that while our work was “similar”, I would need to fill out various forms, read the entire series, talk to this person, capture a leprechaun, etc. in order to make any headway.
I haven’t had one single person come back on me about this. Not one. None of her fans, no casual readers learning about her fraud, not even the woman herself. Meanwhile, three of our comrades have gotten hold of books 3 and 4 of the VDS and are currently tearing into them (thank God for ebay). These two books were the two that Alex sent me as PDFs with my scene already rewritten, which of course begs the question of what else was changed. I asked her for hardcopies. She claimed she didn’t have access to any (WTF?). So we bought them second hand. They are also the two and ONLY books of hers that catapulted to $99 through third party sellers. NONE of her other books, even though pulled, are selling for that high through other people. I know that she doesn’t control other sellers, but it still stinks. Why JUST those two? What the hell is going on?
Missron80 has finished Book 1 and is starting into the next two, so she’ll be able to tell me soon.
Meanwhile, I just wanted to thank you guys for participating in this coup. I want this to be a lesson for anyone reading OUR stuff and getting ideas. Our community came down like a swarm of bees and I’d be terrified if I was on the receiving end of it.
You’re awesome.
Heather
There is no thanks needed, Heather. What was done was wrong, and I am happy to have helped to bring this to light. Thanks for the stories you have gifted to us!!!
Just a reminder. Tomorrow ends some contests, and tonight ends the submission part of the banner contest for those in the Facebook Group.
Kittyinaz Banner contest entry
Kittyinaz’s Writing Challenge submissions are due by the end of tomorrow, my time. And if you owe me a story… I will come knocking!
I also am participating in Kelpie’s Twin Contest this month. Good luck in guessing mine!!!! But I fully encourage you to go off and see about hers.
Starting today, the Twisted Fairy Tales for the Non Canon Awards is open for submissions.
So… There is no reason not to sit down and write something, anything! Come on. The water is great, and you will find only good things happen when you take chances in life. Cause otherwise you will wonder late at night…What If……….
I left the following review on Amazon on the Thief known as Alexandra Anthony’s Fated. I wonder how long until it is gone………..
Stealing another’s work is wrong. There are even laws against it amazingly enough. to be frank, how would you like to build a house from the ground up, spilling your blood into the dirt, your tears into the foundation and so forth. Only when it is done, you are ready to move in and then someone pushes you out of the way saying it was sold to you by someone you didn’t even know? Pissed wouldn’t you be? Going to get your rights and showing you own something. Wanting if nothing else the profit someone made on your stuff??
So how is someone’s time and sweat, sleepness nights and the burning of your eyes as you type your story up. The time you poured into making a fic for others to read, then to find out that someone stole this work of yours, which is terrible I have been a victim myself of, and is making MONEY off it? Before you say anything else, what if Ficlet was going to write it and publish it later? She has that right. 50 Shades of Grey anyone? That started as fanfiction. I know. I read it.
If I was everyone who bought this piece of work from another, first I would be pissed. I paid for someone else’s work that is currently free of charge for you to read, then the fact that you are paying for someone’s work that stole it from another. Stealing is wrong. We all know this. Every religion tells you this, and even more, your own morals tell you this.
So do something right. Demand your money back. Then go read the original authors work and tell her how you enjoyed it.
I am Kittyinaz, and I wholeheartedly Give this 0 stars since it is NOT Alexandra Anthony’s work. It is my friends ficlet78’s work.
Now to go publish on my OWN site this travesty, to forward the message on to all my followers, and to publish it on my facebook, as well as my post going out to the Twitter world, tumblr and so on. No matter how many of these messages she deletes, the truth is out there. And to throw one more cliché.. You can’t stop the signal.
Quotes are from X Files and Serenity. See that?!?!? I give credit.
I wholeheartedly support any actions to be taken to get this removed. And I am going to put this everywhere I can. Help support your fanfiction authors and a fellow human and share this. don’t let it die down, until she removes the work, and is giving ficlet her due credit.
So yes I am a day late. But hell, I was ‘off’ for the day, and came back to explosion in my inbox with this. It pisses me off. As you guys well know. then kjwrit published that the lady is going to take the stuff down and work with ficlet. then MistressJessica found that she is deleting posts on her amazon page about it, as well as leaving it up on her wordpress.
Enough. Lets show ms Plagiarism what the TB/SVM fandoms think of her little theft. Spread the word people. This shit needs to end. Really. It is because of this that my original fiction is locked from all but a few. a very few. And I know each and every person it is allowed to.
So please. Do not let this go by. Since you never will know when it will happen to you.
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