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Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

Hi hello! Okay, problem!

So, since The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals came out and I have watched it, (and waited for it to get popular on Tumblr) I had wanted to do a Voltron AU of it. But the problem is, I don’t have a clue on who I want to be who, or if it is still “musical” or regular life. And I have no idea who I want to be who for the AU.

That also goes into another problem. Shipping. Now, I know the Voltron fandom is a little temperamental when it comes to shipping, and I don’t want to poke the bear with who I want to be Rmma and Paul, Charlotte and Sam, and everyone else it the musical that is married or together with someone. So, with that being said, I have like 4 characters that I must have as the final characters in the AU, that I am not going to say, obviously, but I need ideas! I need help!

So, what I am trying to get across is, WHO WANT’S TO HELP ME WITH AN AU! If you would leave your answers in the comments, or tweeting me on Twitter, if you have it, it can really help me out. Thank you!!!

Have a sneak peek at my latest project! I honestly love the design I made, and hope you all like it too

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

I have a problem, and I want you opinion.

So, there has been an idea bobbling around my head since 2 AM, and I can’t sleep, so I am writing it down. It has steadily turned into a fan fic, and now I have a choice to make. There is supposed to be a song ingrained into the story, and I don’t know if I want the characters to sing the lyrics, or if I want to alter them into actual words for the characters to say, along the lines of what the actual music is. Let me know what you thing I should do, so that I can actually get sleep without the thoughts of an unfinished fan fic mentally murdering me. Thanks!

😎🧡 Portal between posts

Blue Portal 💙

A gift for a friend that I decided to post. They are from a show called The Worst Witch, I have no idea who they are :/ The work is based on a fic she told me to read and draw something from. The link is below:

What do you mean I haven’t done anything in over a year? Heh, that’s….crazy

Anyway, I’ve been playing DnD with my friends, and I’m in love with my character. So…

My child, Erza.

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)