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hey Kate, have you heard back from Amazon? Has your pal Jon Fine figured out what happened? Any word yet?  What was that about? Answer : No; not as far as I know; I've had no word yet.  I have no clue. Okay, maybe I did get a clue, from astute person Jody Wallace, who pointed out that it was likely plagiarism-- again. Will I spend time and energy going after this? Now that the book is down, at last, a stake driven through its heart, I'm less frothing and upset. I got used to pirates, after all. Maybe I'll get used to plagiarists. I hope not.

Dear Amazon.... It's me, Kate. AGAIN.

Hey, about that plagiarized book on your site? I wish you'd send me the money from sales of that book, but you did send me the plagiarists' address and suggest I track him down on my own to get my cash, that's something, I guess. Now it's this new situation that has me perplexed. Someone took the profits from one of my books--a book that was not authorized for sale--and that someone is you. This is from a book I tried to eliminate from your site, but, you told me no, the dashboard is forever. I can't take away anything, just take the book into the draft form and it'll never pop up on the sale page again. You promised! SO imagine my confusion when The Rat Catche r, a book I'd said goodbye and buried forever, suddenly showed up with a BUY IT NOW button. I immediately went to my KDP board and hit the "unpublish button" I hit that baby a lot. Nothing happened. The book stayed up there. So I started writing letters. Here. Let me refresh your ...