kate rothwell

My book, Someone To Cherish , has been stolen. The whole thing was copied and pasted and republished as Bad Luck Love's [sic] Me . This isn't the first time I've heard about plagiarized material showing up for sale on Amazon. The last time I saw it, though, the books had been taken from Literotica. This time the books are taken directly from Amazon . So why didn't the stolen manuscript trigger some kind of alert before it got published? Lori Devoti spent a while this afternoon tracking down and finding the other authors who had books stolen by the people who took my book. Not hard--she found a few in less than an hour. So why the hell didn't Amazon? I contacted them hours ago. Why haven't they done anything yet--like maybe, answer my emails? Lots of people have pointed out that that "author" has stolen a bunch of books. Why hasn't Amazon taken down the books' buy buttons? I suppose making people push that little button that says "...

Not mine (I could never do this) but a friend's. How do you deal with middle school obsession with sex and penises? example one: Upon finding a penis drawn on the margins of an English book. 1. Have a fit and put the entire class in detention 2. Hold up the book (with the approximately 1/2" penis) to show the class and say "Look, a life size self portrait." example two: A kid screams at you, "Johnny's gonna give me a blow job this weekend." 1. Send both kids to the counselor's office. 2. Say, "Well, that gives you something to look forward to, doesn't it."