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Plagiarism Alert
I must apologize to my fans and readers for what I am being forced to do. It has recently come to my attention that a woman has been going around adult literature sites, blatantly ripping off other author’s stories and using a POD service to sell copies of these stolen stories in book form. Right now all of this is under investigation. I personally do not have any stories on the sites in question, but she has not only ripped off stories from these adult sites but also from some of the author’s own personal websites.
Due to this ongoing investigation of the dozens of writers whose copyrights have been infringed upon by this person, I am taking down all of my stories which have not already been put into publication. I am extremely sorry for this, but until this woman is put out of business and behind bars then I do not trust having my work sitting around waiting for someone to rip off the work that I have spent years and years on.
Below is the e-mail that I was given privy to. I am republishing with the original writer’s permission in hopes that this woman will be shut down permanently.
FORWARDED E-MAIL:
From:asstr-authors-bounces@asstr.org on behalf of ASSTR Administration (admin@asstr.org) Sent:Thu 12/30/10 3:00 PMTo: asstr-authors@asstr.org
We are forwarding this message on to our authors as a courtesy to all of
you.
– Rey del Sexo
———- Forwarded message ———-
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:39:37 -0800
From: Alex Severin <alex@alexseverin.com>
To: info@literotica.com, copyright@asstr.org
Cc: alex@alexseverin.com, massacrepubl@aol.com
Subject: URGENT – PLAGIARISM / COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ALERT
Wednesday, 29th December 2010
Dear Literotica & ASSTR,
I would be much obliged if you would send out the following letter via
your forums, newsletters and social networks. Please post it anywhere and
everywhere you deem appropriate.
I have discovered a massive case of plagiarism involving both your
websites and many of your writers. Their work has been plagiarized and
copyright infringed, and is being published in Kindle format and sold on
Amazon.com. (There were paperbacks and e-books being published by LuLu.com
also, but their Copyright Agent was fantastic – he deleted the thief’s
entire catalog, not just the book I sent him a DMCA notice about.)
If you need any further information, please don’t hesitate to contact me
at the e-mail address below.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerest regards…
Alex Severin – Writer
www.AlexSeverin.com
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Dear Writers,
My name is Alex Severin. I’m a writer. I’ve come across a Literary
Kleptomaniac on the internet variously named as –
Rebecca Geissler
Rebekah Geissler
Becky Geissler
Rebecca Bick
Rebekah Bick
Ana Phylaxis
M. Ana Phylaxis
Mistress Ana Phylaxis
BizarreBettyXXX (she claims this is her publishing house.)
Byronee (this is actually a character from one of the stolen stories below.)
She steals stories (erotica, mind control, fetish and erotic horror,) puts
them in book form and sells them on Amazon. So far, there are 7 books.
Every story is plagiarized and copyright infringed.
I already had her store on LuLu.com shut down. She was using them to POD
paperbacks and selling them at nearly $21 a pop.
If you have work on Literotica.com or ASSTR.org, please read through the
list below and look for your name. If you don’t see your name, I’m sure
you will recognize plenty of other names listed. Please pass on this info
to your fellow writers, post it on your blog, your social network sites
etc.
She has looted both Literotica and ASSTR. She stole 8 of my stories from
my own website and a very old e-zine my work is in. Five of those she put
into books. The other 3 she was earning per-1000-clicks payments via
Yahoo! Associated Content.
I sent DMCA notices to Amazon.com regarding the two books my stories were
in and they have have since been deleted from the site, so, if your story
was in NECROLUST : IN THE FLESH or NECROPOLIS you don’t need to take any
action. 13 WOMEN has also been deleted after ‘Phineas’ whose story YAMARA
was stolen from Literotica, sent Amazon a DMCA notice. Currently, four
books remain available.
If your story/stories is/are in any of the other four books, I would
recommend sending Amazon a DMCA notice. If you don’t know how to do this,
click on the link below, copy and paste the DMCA form and just fill in all
the areas that contain UPPER CASE INSTRUCTIONS, like so, with your own
details.
http://www.alexseverin.com/Blank-DMCA-Notice.txt
And send it to Amazon.com’s Copyright & Trademark Agent at
copyright@amazon.com
Use DMCA NOTICE – COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT as your e-mail subject line.
Any questions you might have or further help you may need with the DMCA
notice, don’t hesitate to contact me at Alex@NOSPAMAlexSeverin.com (Remove
NOSPAM before sending e-mail, of course.)
I’ve listed the plagiarized and copyright infringed stories and writers,
book by book. It’s a long list. I’ve linked to all the Amazon buy pages
that remain (of course, a few of them are gone now but I’ve uploaded a few
screen-shots.)
Also, since Facebook doesn’t seem to care that she is linking to buy
illegal content (a contravention of their own Rights and Responsibilities
for users,) feel free to send a note to Facebook requesting they shut down
her ‘fan’ group. Just let them know that she’s linking to illegal content
in the form of copyright infringed / plagiarized stories and offering them
for sale via her group page. I sent her a Cease & Desist Order, since she
clearly wasn’t going to stop and kept releasing books even after I had
started taking her down, (including stealing more on my stories!) She
closed her ‘fan’ page on Facebook and locked down her ‘fan’ group. She’s
now claiming ‘her’ stories have been ‘stolen’ and that she is working with
the FBI on the matter.
Just as an aside, I wouldn’t recommend interacting with her. She informed
me I was affecting her PTSD, she is poor and innocent and that I am
actually victimizing HER. She told me she has no money and that legal
action against her will cost me more than it will her. I felt obliged to
inform her when I mentioned ‘legal action’ that she misunderstood – I am
not suing her personally – I am seeking her prosecution. I never heard
back from her after that.
This is the URL of her Facebook group –
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_113466835387435
She also has another facebook page, ‘Facebook.com/Becky.Geissler’ (This is
also her, but she claims it is her ‘slave.’ The display names she uses on
her group are ‘Mistress Ana Phylaxis’ and ‘Anaphylactic Shock.’
This person has made money off all of us – perhaps not a fortune, but
enough that she continues to do it even after she has been caught.
The reason I’m sending this to the individual websites involved is this –
I contacted all the writers in the first three books and only received one
responses out of a dozen writers. Many of these stories have been online
for ten years or more and some of the accounts haven’t been modified for
many years. I thought my best bet was to try and get the two main sites on
board to send out this letter via their own newsletters, forums and social
networks. Also, anybody reading this please feel free to disseminate it,
or the information within, anywhere you deem appropriate. I would like
this plagiarist publicly exposed.
I got a call on 21st December from the Copyright and Trademark Agent at
Amazon, Adrian Garver and it would appear Mistress Ana Phylaxis is going
to try and challenge my DMCA notices. She informed Mr. Garver that she
started writing the book in 1993 and first published it in 1997. She
didn’t actually say which book she was talking about.
Here’s the book and story list…
Title : NECROLUST : IN THE FLESH [I sent a DMCA notice regarding this book
and it has now been deleted from the Amazon catalog.]
The buy page is gone now, but here are some screen-shots :
NECROLUST : IN THE FLESH PDF PURCHASED FROM LULU.COM – If you would like a
copy, please e-mail me. I don’t want to host the content on my site since
only a few of the stories are my own copyright and this would be an
infringement of your copyright.
In the Flesh – Alex Severin (Alex Severin.com)
Bad Habit – Alex Severin (House of Pain e-Zine)
Bad Habit II : The Redemtion of Mary Magdalen – Alex Severin (House of
Pain e-Zine)
Frankenstein, the Lost Journals – Red Ram (Literotica)
The Goblin Under the Bed – Margin Walker (Literotica)
Wonderland in Alice – TwistedPlayr (Literotica)
Lustful Summoning : Parts 1 – 13 – mjm202036 (Literotica)
Title : THE COVEN
Buy Link :
http://www.amazon.com/The-Coven-ebook/dp/B004478IMC/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1292398348&sr=8-6
PDF COPY PURCHASED FROM LULU.COM – If you would like a copy, please e-mail
me. I don’t want to host this e-book on my site since none of the stories
in it are mine and this would be an infringement of your copyright.
The Coven (Complete Serial) – TheFlyingPen (Literotica)
Title : 13 WOMEN [This book has now been removed from the Amazon catalog
after a DMCA notice was sent by ‘Phineas’ whose story YAMARA was used.]
PDF COPY PURCHASED FROM LULU.COM – If you would like a copy, please e-mail
me. I don’t want to host this e-book on my site since none of the stories
in it are mine and this would be an infringement of your copyright.
The Julia Chronicles – Sara H [AKA Cat’s Sara] (Literotica)
Igrayne – Uther Pendragon (ASSTR)
A Knight to Remember – Souvie (Literotica)
Last Night Together – Inkubus (ASSTR) (See note below about this story.)
The Gorgons Kiss – Cobalt Jade (ASSTR)
Yamara – Phineas (Literotica)
The Devil is Miss Jones (all parts) / The Devil is Still Miss Jones (all
parts) / Hell’s Belle : The Return of Lilibat (all parts) – A Sinister
Bent (ASSTR)
Dr. Fixit (all parts of the Dr. Kara Pendleton series) – A Sinister Bent
(ASSTR)
The Adventures of Sam Spain, PI [Her title, THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPAIN,
PRIVATE DICK] – masterdavid1965 (Literotica)
(NOTE: LAST NIGHT TOGETHER may also be the same LAST NIGHT TOGETHER that’s
on her NiteFlirt page where she’s selling audio files. I didn’t purchase
these as the site requires setting up an account with them. So you might
want to visit and check it out. There’s lots of files – she may have
gotten the original material from Literotica and ASSTR too. You might
recognize a title – she doesn’t change them often. Here’s the link to
her page –
http://www.niteflirt.com/BizarreBettyXXX)
Title : NECROPOLIS [I sent a DMCA notice regarding this book and it has
now been deleted from the Amazon catalog.]
PDF COPY PURCHASED FROM LULU.COM – If you would like a copy, please e-mail
me. I don’t want to host this e-book on my site since only two of the
stories in it are mine and this would be an infringement of your
copyright.
Emma Eccentric – CSC Monkey Girl (Literotica)
Illisa’s Trials – t’Sade (Literotica)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci – Differently Dirty (Literotica)
Inside You – Alex Severin (AlexSeverin.com)
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut – Libertine (ASSTR)
Migration – Bandyimo (ASSTR)
Pits & Spikes – t’Sade (ASSTR)
Playmates – Angel Michael (ASSTR)
Special Treats – t’Sade (ASSTR)
The Summer Guest – Evil Cow (ASSTR)
Winter Flesh – Tabico (ASSTR)
Zombie Fucker – Alex Severin & Hertzan Chimera (AlexSeverin.com)
Title : A… B… C… (THE A,B,C’S OF DISCIPLINE AND HORROR) [sic]
A Sanguine Romance for the Dying – Unknown Pleasures (Literotica)
Blood Rose – Chapters 1 – 3 – Icehead (Literotica)
Boston Halloween Massacre – Chapters 1 – 22 – BostonFictionWriter
(Literotica)
Call of the Wolf – Chapters 1 – 8 – Purpleguy1812 (Literotica)
Consumed – Chapters 1 – 3 – NotWhatSheSeems (Literotica)
Captivity – J. Percival (Literotica)
Plane of Lust – limitless_lover (Literotica)
Title : D… E… F… (THE A,B,C’S OF DISCIPLINE AND HORROR Volume 2) [sic]
Detective Murphy – Transfix (Literotica)
Detective Murphy Meets the Devil – Transfix (Literotica)
Detective Murphy : The Lesson – Transfix (Literotica)
Detective Murphy : The Prick – Transfix (Literotica)
Descending – Chapters 1 – 2 – missmetalhead (Literotica)
Englishman in New York – Chapters 1 – 13 – velvetpie (Literotica)
Fresh from the Grave – Days 1 – 5 – emap (Literotica)
Found – Chapters 1 – 5 – Cowboi (Literotica)
Fungi – Master_Vyle (Literotica)
Full Moon Rut – SolitaryHawk (Literotica)
Title : 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
12 Days of Christmas – Days 1 – 12 – supersexy_alexa (Literotica)
Website : YAHOO! ASSOCIATED CONTENT
Mary Magdalene : The Beloved Disciple
Actual Title : Mary Magdalene : Author of the Fourth Gospel? – Ramon K.
Jusino
New Year’s – ScottishChieftan (ASSTR)
Jimmy’s Fate – ScottishChieftan (ASSTR)
The Chieftain – ScottishChieftan (ASSTR)
Good Steward – ScottishChieftan (ASSTR)
The Phoenix House – Bandyimo (ASSTR)
Again, writers, please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need any
assistance with your DMCA notice, or have any other questions regarding
this matter.
I would also like to express my thanks to the websites involved for
assisting with disseminating this information.
Sincerest regards…
/Alex Severin/
Alex Severin – Writer
Trolling Comments: Examples
Trolling Comments: What They Look Like
The following are some of the trolling comments I have received on my posted stories on the XN website. I share these with my readers and fellow writers so that you will get a better understanding of how the troll mind works and some of the spineless things they spew.
The following are comments taken from the novel The Red Fang:
“Dumb story. Shows poor writing skills as well as a troubled mind. Suggest you find medical help and a writing course….”
**This being said about an author who has been writing for over 28 years and has been published through both mainstream publications as well as self-publication routes. This is a classic example of a trolling comment that does not help a writer at all but instead shows a streak of jealousy. “Poor writing skills” means absolutely nothing if you are not going to point out the poor writing skills in question. Exactly WHAT makes it “poor writing” in this person’s opinion? The rest of this is just utter nonsense. Coming from a troll, telling an author he/she “has a troubled mind” is an oxymoron. The story is about vampires and werewolves, something that has been written about for well over a hundred years now. If I have a troubled mind, then so do all my favorite authors. If we are all touched in the head for our creativity, then I don’t want to be normal! I love the rebuttal by one of my readers: “Someone reading a sex story on a porn site thinks a writer needs medical help….pot, meet kettle.”
“This crap puts me too much to mund of ***17 and the crap he writes. I really don’t like the style of writing, too weak and unsophificated. Perhaps you could get the great one, ***, to dispense some of her wisdom, she is the perfect writer, don’t you know. I did wank twice during the reading, however.”
**Obviously I was the victim of a troll who is jealous of other writer’s abilities and has since had his work so poorly rated that he wants to get even with anyone and everyone whose stories are considered better than his by the majority of readers. The two writers’ names that I blocked out are actually two of the better writers on that site. One has since left us due to such trolling comments as this one. It is easy to tell when you have been trolled by a jealous writer. They often toss around other writers’ names who have given them pointers on what could make their story better. Again, saying that the writing is “too weak” and “unsophisticated” means nothing. Give examples of your complaints. Otherwise, you are just tossing around fancy words hoping that others will think you are smarter than you actually are.
“Both stupid and silly. Not such a good story, if that’s what it’s supposed to be. Try to take some remedial english classes at the local junior high school, then see if you still want to pretend that you’re a writer, littlt Princess.”
**Again, this is just someone who is out to blow smoke up your chimney. There is nothing helpful about this comment at all, just someone out to infuriate the writer. All this comment does is resort to name-calling and tossing around insults that have no merit to them what-so-ever.
The following comment I do not really consider to be a troll comment, however, I would like to use it as an example of a comment that you will want to take with a grain of salt:
“im sorry to be a buzz kill but if he can phase willingly hes no werewolf, hes a restricted shapeshifter. sorry but just pointin out a fact. love your storys though”
**This would be one of those cases where the reader told you what they thought was wrong instead of just tossing around insults and telling you to go take a writing lesson. This one, however, would be a perfect example of “file it in the ‘I don’t give a damn’ category” for some writers. When it comes to fiction, there ARE not hard-set rules. You can make up anything and call it anything without fear of messing up details. It’s called “creativity.” This goes back to putting your own twists on things and stretching your mind a bit. After all, as I have said, if all stories were exactly the same, how boring would they be?
“That was b.s. It was stupid ad boring. Hopefully no one is stupid enough to buy your book.”
**Do I even need to point out all the things that make this a trolling comment?
I have, of course, gotten hundreds of really nice comments from well-wishing readers and fans. I have also gotten more than my fair share of well-meaning “critics” who thought they would help me out by pointing out my many uses of clichéd words and phrases, among other things. Those would be comments that I file under the “I don’t give a damn” category as well. As I have written in a previous article, clichés can work for you if you know how to use them correctly and wisely. Or, to put it another way, “Show me a writer who has never used a cliché term or phrase in their writer and I will show you someone who has never written a single word.”
Congratulations to My Mentor, Bret Michaels
It’s been a really long time coming. I must give my absolute whole-hearted CONGRATULATIONS to Bret and his fiance, Kristi. I am so happy for the two of you! All I can say is, “Bret, it’s about damn time man!”
All my love and my prayers for many more years of happiness for the two of you and your beautiful family,
XOXO
Nicola Matthews
Writing Forums: Yes, It’s a Popularity Contest
Any writer who has spent more than a few hours on a writing forum will quickly realize that your talent has nothing to do with how well your stories are received, how many reads you get, how well your ratings will be, or the type of comments you will receive. As much as it sucks, you could write something to rival Anne Rice, Stephen King, and J. K. Rowling and STILL have your work rate very low, have people tell you that you suck as a writer, and not receive 1/10 of the reads that the top-rated story has, even if that story sounds like it was written by a ten-year-old.
It totally sucks, but writing forums boil down to a giant popularity contest. Unlike real life, though, it is not necessarily the “who” that is popular so much as it is the “what” that is the flavor of the day. For example, XN caters to a very specific group of readers. They are looking for instant gratification in their adult literature. The more vulgar it is, the more taboo the subject, the better the response. The readers apparently do not care anything about stories which are well written, well thought out, and have actual storylines and character development.
Even though I know this, it is still very disheartening to have my hard work butchered and torn apart by readers who have absolutely no idea or appreciation for the amount of hard work and effort that goes into creating the type of erotic fantasy that I enjoy writing. And despite this, I still post on this site. I know that if I would take all of the sex scenes out then I would be able to post on other writing sites, but I refuse to jump through hoops and rewrite something that I like just to try to get a few more reads. Being forced to change who I am as a writer and consequently the writing itself is the very reason why I have turned down mainstream publication offers and chose to go the self-publishing route.
I know that I could have other options if I changed my genre of writing. I know that posting on XN will result in my stories being trolled by mean-spirited readers and consistently rated down by jealous writers. I know that members of the site are not looking for anything that has any type of thought and creativity behind it. One has only to see all the “That was so hot! You are a great writer! I want more!” comments on seriously pathetic attempts at writing to know that most of the members and readers that frequent that site would not know a decent piece of written work if it bit them on their asses.
This goes back to that whole “popularity” thing again. If it’s a really badly written piece from a writer who has gotten a “following” because his brain-dead readers seem to think his vulgarity is a rare treasure, then they will continue to follow him around as if he were a literary god. If it’s a wretched piece of text that jumps straight into an adult situation with no mention of the characters or how they came to be in this situation, then it will be praised and voted up. Decent pieces of writing, those with thought and character development, coherent storylines and intriguing plot twists, will, inevitably, be voted to the bottom of the pile thanks to under-handed people who want to pretend they are writers by slapping a bunch of crap onto their computers and then post it on a site that has absolutely no literary standards what-so-ever. Yeah, it’s the only place that would take their mindless drivel. Most writing forums have standards.
Yet I choose to stay. If I could find other sites* that allowed graphic violence and adult themes and situations then I would happily post on said site(s). Until then, I will continue to put up with the trolls and oceans of mediocre writing that is XN. In the meantime, I feel that each positive vote, each encouraging comment, each additional read is another small victory for the few decent writers that still cling to some ray of hope that XN will eventually stop catering to all the bad writers and mean trolls and start appreciating all the talented writers who give their writing genius to the site FOR FREE. But it’s a choice that I stand by. Sure, I’m not popular. I will probably never be one of the “popular” writers. But I’m betting that if any of my works ever hit the mainstream publication circuits I’d be a pretty damn big hit. Of course, that maybe because in my own mind, I am already popular!
*If anyone knows of any good writing forums/sites that allows adult content with graphic violence, allows the writer to retain all copyrights, and does not require an act of congress to join, please feel free to let me know. I have tried 4chan, fictionpress, Lit., Lush, SOL, wattpad, booksie, and a bunch of others that I can’t remember at this time.
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