In less than 24 hours, my book has popped up on FIVE sites for illegal download. Worse, two of the sites plagiarized my dear friend Jaime's review along with the posting.
Jaime is spitting mad and so am I.
Between is practically free as it is!
The ebook only costs 99 cents. Who doesn't have that? I've had bloggers email me and request a free review copy, which I willingly give. So if a person doesn't have a buck and is desperate for the book, there are ways to get a copy without stealing.
And I'm not the only one.
Jennifer Armentrout, the author of the upcoming
Half Blood, was recently plagued by illegal postings of her book as well.
So what can we do about it?
We've emailed the sites to ask that the pirated copies be removed, but Jennifer called them gremlins that multiply at night, and I have to agree with her. My Twitter friend
Trina M. Lee told me that her books have been pirated for years and that even if a site agreed to take the posting down, it would pop up again a few weeks later.
Jaime is fighting back. And so am I.
Okay, so maybe I can't stop the books from being posted illegally. People who wish to do evil will find a way. So we choose to counter that with good.
Jaime is hosting a
contest on her blog where she's going to buy and give away a copy of
Between. Go and show your support!
HappyTwilighter made a Piracy Sucks twibbon to
add to your Twitter avatar.
HeyItsFishy is making a Piracy Sucks banner.
What The Cat Read has already posted about this.
Larissa's Bookish Life is the awesome talent behind the icon above. Add it to your blog!
Unabridged Bookshelf is giving away 5 copies of
Between and another 5 of Angeline Kace's
Descended by Blood (which has also been plagued by illegal postings).
Figure out how
you can be part of the movement to speak out against piracy.
For me, I will give a free ecopy of Between to EVERY SINGLE PERSON who blogs about this and comments back here with the link.
This isn't about me and my book. It's obviously not about money, since the book is dang near free already.
This is about stealing that which should be a gift. When an author pours her heart onto the page in order to make you laugh, cry, and fall in love, it is a gift. From her to you. It's a special time capsule of hours spent when you were swept up in another world and just for a little while, were able to set aside the trials of this world. Don't steal the gift. It won't mean as much to you in the end, I promise.
Go and spread the message that Piracy Sucks and come back here to let me know you have. Be sure to leave your email so I can send you the free copy.
Because above all else, I want to share the gift of
Between with you. From my heart to yours.
One girl up front asked Mary Pearson how she got the idea to put thoughts in a black box (the premise of her novel, The Fox Inheritance). Mary responded that she'd done some research and that scientists currently believe that in about 25 years, they'll be able to scan our brains and download the information to a computer so we can have conversations with ourselves. Jessica Brody piped up and asked if her computer brain would be able to tell her where she left her car keys, since she has difficulties with that. :)
Alyson shared that she finds writing inspiration from events in her life, that she's been through some tough times: lost 3 people in her family within a short period and almost lost her husband to leukemia. Mary spoke of her daughter's cancer and how that played a role in the stories she came up with to work through the emotions. Gabrielle lightened the mood by recounting a story about a vicious chihuahua trying to attack her and her pug outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the inspiration for her novel, All These Things I've Done.
I had the chance to ask Jessica about the Ah-Mazing book trailers she's done for The Karma Club and My Life Undecided, which are more like movie trailers than book trailers. She said that she has friends in the film industry who've helped her out and that they take months to do, but that they are a labor of love. When I talked with her one-on-one during the signing, I told her I'd love to have her do a book trailer for Between.
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