Saturday, November 30, 2013

Apologies

I've had so much going on this year that I have failed to make posts since Feb when I had my plagiarism incident.


Where to start?


Well, I guess the most important update is the Anthology my short story, Beyond the Grave, is featured in was published back in Aug. Dawn of the Living Dead is a collection of paranormal stories by some of the most talented young writers I'm honored to share a book with.

http://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Living-Dead-Melissa-Somoza-ebook/dp/B00EUM9ANM/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385869666&sr=1-1&keywords=dawn+of+the+living+dead

http://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Living-Dead-Melissa-Somoza/dp/1492120928/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_pap?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385869666&sr=1-1&keywords=dawn+of+the+living+dead


I will also admit to having some issues with my internet connection and a lack of interest in writing a blog this year. Hopefully that will change soon...

Until next time, my friends

Friday, February 22, 2013

Plagiarism

Those of you who know me also know I like to write fan fiction as well. Mainly from the Dragon Age video games. It came to my attention today that one of those stories, Broken, a short story told by the character Fenris about his complicated relationship with my PC (player character) Alexandria Hawke, was posted on another site without my permission. A lovely young lady messaged me on deviantART, one of the sites the story resides (the other place being facebook), asking me if I was Emma Shepard. After browsing my gallery, she saw I do not do the Mass Effect games (The PC's last name in those games is Shepard) thus she asked me if I'd given Emma Shepard permission to post it and provided me with the link. I saw Broken was indeed on that site and without any credit whatsoever to me. Thus I have reported her for plagiarism.

Now those that know me, know that I'm not easily riled and it takes a lot to get on my bad side. And yes, I do have a bad side. Stealing something I wrote, even if the world and character belongs to Bioware, is something that will put you there easily. And for the record, when I write fan fiction or use a character that belongs to someone else, I clearly state who they belong to. Emma Shepard did not do that. If she had asked for permission first, I may have allowed it as long as she credited me for it. And even without permission, if she had credited me I would not be so pissed off about it.

And I will say this, if Emma Shepard was a writer at all, she would respect another writer's work.


Lesson of the day:

DON'T STEAL OTHER PEOPLE'S CREATIVE WORKS!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Out of Hiding

I don't even remember the last time I updated this. Not that anyone has noticed as I barely have any followers, but I digress. I am back with my view of the world.

Ok I just checked and I haven't been seen since the Halloween Special...

Well I do have an excuse for Nov. I participated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and I was completely focused on that for the Month of Nov. As that was my first NaNo, I was actually surprised that I reached the 50,000 word goal and then some. (I finished with over 68,000). And I will be participating again in Nov of this year.

Of course, Dec is always our busy month with folks going out of town and leaving their critters and the critters eating stuff they shouldn't...

I really have no excuse for Jan and most of this month aside from working on edits for my novels...


Until next time

The Ice Queen