WTFery to a new degree

[misscam]

WHAT

WHAT the second

Q: Having set Another Hope in an already existing universe, I find myself wondering if there was any concern on your part regarding copyrights?

No, because I wrote this book for myself. This is a self-published story and is not a commercial book. Yes, it is for sale on Amazon, but only my family, friends and acquaintances know it’s there. (Here it is, so now all you know too.)

...

My mind runnenth over with the stupid.

Apparently, she partly owns the company publishing this, which makes her a publisher - and she still thinks this is okay? For real? Publishing Star Wars fanfic?

WHAT. Seriously, WHAT? Not to mention it looks like it has some bloody Mary Sue in there too. Well, it just had to, didn't it?

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[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

not a commercial book. Yes, it is for sale

The stupid, it burns us! Also, I look forward to hearing her wails about the cease-and-desist notices she will shortly be receiving.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I expect those will be arriving with the speed of light now that news are spreading of it all over the Net.

But she appears to have sold quite a few books, so... Oi. Is so gonna get sued.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I hope she'll get eaten by Wookies nice letters from George Lucas's lawyers, for her sheer stupidity...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would count on it. The story is spreading, and all, so bound to reach attentative ears with lawyering power.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

oh my. Shut the fuck up she must... really, how can anyone be so stupid? Will be interesting to see what'll happen once the real copyright holder finds out...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

C&D at the very least. Which is why I downloaded the free copy from her site to have something to remember the stupid by.

[hadria.livejournal.com]

but only my family, friends and acquaintances know it’s there.

HEADDESKFISTMOUTHHEADCONCRETE. Not the second you pimped it in a pseudointerview, fucker.

She's so lucky Lucas is so liberal with copyright, anyone else would sue her. She'll just end up getting a C&D order.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. Though given that her book appears to have been for sale for over ayear and have probably sold quite a few copies, they might go for a little more.

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

... the plot of her book is that she killed Luke and Obi Wan and fabricated two cousins for Leia, who happened not to be on Alderaan when it blew? What the fuckity fuck? How does someone even come up with something that absurd? It's like Doctor Who where the Doctor died after his first regen and Susan and her mysterious nieces sat around Gallifrey eating porriage instead.

I mean, if it was a book set in the Star Wars universe but not dealing with the characters, I might give her some leeway, but this is a joke. It's Star Wars fanfiction, and shitty sounding stuff, at that. I think I wrote better Star Wars fic when I was 16 and invented some random chick to pair Luke off with.

Sigh.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Susan would so go twap that author with a plank, snapping the author back into logic and thus book never writtem, and thus Doctor lives. Yay.

It is shitty. Trust me, I've had a bit of a read.

[cbackson.livejournal.com]

Oh my.
Well, there's not much else to say there, aside from that I hope she's prepared to take it down, and had better hope the holder will stop at C&D and not decide to Make An Example Of Her by going for damages. She's violating copyright, and she's selling it.

Plus, there's an icky sort of, I don't know, entitlement about that whole interview.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. It reeks of Self Importance, and that's not a scent I particular enjoy.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

She wrote it for herself? Sorry, that ended when she decided to publish it. Then it went from private to public. Silly girl.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Ooooh yes. Well, technically, it went public when she put it on her website, which is what most of us settle for. It went commercial when she stuck it on Amazon.

[mthespinner.livejournal.com]

OK, this person is making my brain hurt...how dumb can you get and still earn a living?

After she recieves a C & D, is she going to run for elected office? Sounds like Congress material to me!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, ouch.

The stupidity mever ceases to amaze, truly.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

... How do you own a publishing company and not know this stuff? Better question: How are you in bloody fandom and not know this stuff? *boggles*

(*is pleased at the opportunity to finally use her idiot icon*)

[yattara.livejournal.com]

Don't underestimate the ignorance of fantwits. Just don't. They'll always find ways to surprise you.

[renn.livejournal.com]

The depths of her stupidity truly amaze me. I wonder how long it will take a C & D to arrive? And how long after that C & D arrives that she'll start to complain. *goes to make some popcorn*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Give it over the weekend?

I fully expect whinge in that blog of hers next week. Oh yes.

[anitchka.livejournal.com]

Putting aside the obvious, why would you put your book up for sale and then offer it for free? Gee, right click for 0$ or get it sent to me for 20$ + S&H. Hmmm.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Well, it did have a nice cover. Um.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

Holy shit.

That is truly . . . special.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yes. Oh yes.

She's got a blog, too.

[padawanpooh.livejournal.com]

Good grief. Idiocy reigns supreme once more.

Fandom is one of the best things there is. Fanfiction, both reading and writing is another. But Fan 101 says right off the bat you *can't* make money out of someone else's universe! Most companies now seem to turn a blind eye to fandoms (realising if they don't they'll only alienate their income streams is my guess) as long as noone is making money out of their creations/property. By making money out of it a case is made for those who *do* want to stop people being creative in fandoms for fun.

*sigh*

And if she is such a terrific writer why is she not writing her own original characters in her own original universe?!?!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You'd think all this was bleeding obvious, wouldn't you? It's the first question on the fandom drive test, and if you fail it, a semitrailer hits you.

Oi. Just oi.

[b2wm.livejournal.com]

Why change the original and best to fit the Emo!Anakin prequels again?

I am calm. I'm not going to headdesk anymore. But really, my aunt sent her fanfic to George Lucas as a kid, but this goes beyond fannish exuberance.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY FANDOM AND MY STATE, IDIOT!

I may need to borrow someone else's capslock key in a minute. I think I just broke mine.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Because Star Wars didn't suck enough as it was...?

*offers you a spare one*

[reia.livejournal.com]

The story of the Naberrie family didn't end with Padmé Amidala . . .

No DUH, bitch. Padme's parents, sister, and nieces were still alive on Naboo at the end of RotS. Now, I haven't been up on my EU much lately, but I'm pretty sure that means that Luke and Leia have some cousins that are about 6 to 10 years older than them running around. Not to mention their grandparents.

Not your sorry excuse for a Sue.

And stop trying to mix it with STAR TREK, YOU COLOSSAL DUMBASS!

*headdesk* The stupid hurts! And George is going to own your soul!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You'd know better than me, I haven't read EU books at all. I've only read that drivel, and much sense, it does not make.

And oi on the Star Trek. Because those two have so much in common...?

[highwindpav.livejournal.com]

50 credits says it's off Amazon by the end of the day and another 50 says she's slapped upside the head with a lightsaber by Monday morning.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Hey, this can be like an experiment in how fast TPTB work on copyright violation.

Let's clock it!

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

::sigh::

The stupidity burns.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

Most of the time, fandom exists as a big, peaceful herd, with sporadic, isolated fights over who gets cock today.

Sometimes, we have to trample a moron to death and leave the remains for the jackals. Jackals need love, too!

[siraj.livejournal.com]

I can hear Anubis giggling in the back of my head, reading your post.

[boz4pm.livejournal.com]

Er...

*blinks*

Here's hoping Lucas sues her arse off. Just because it gives Boz great pleasure to know the terminally stupid get their comeuppance at last.

[little-baldwin.livejournal.com]

*dies*

That's all. Just *dies*

A grown woman writes a 'Sue and expects people to take it, just like that? Publishing a plotline that isn't yours, no matter how bad you mangle it, is plagiarism. That's all there is to it.

(By the way, I read OFUM again for the first time in years this week. Major squee-age in your direction, though I suspect you've tired of hearing 'bout it. ^_^ )

~LB~

[siraj.livejournal.com]

re: 2nd WHAT link:

"Thank you for your interest in Another Hope. The book has been removed from the Books in Print database and will be removed from book distribution channels effective Tuesday, April 24, 2006. "


Ahh... pwnage smells so very good...

[boz4pm.livejournal.com]

*can't stop laughing* Ah, I love the smell of pwnage in the morning... *grin*

[kittycatness.livejournal.com]

Actually, there are a lot of Star Wars books out there without JL's okay. But it's stupid because of the amount of them out there.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Also, her site has now vanished.

So has the publishing company WordTechCommunications.

[sekhmets-temple.livejournal.com]

I...

But...

Isn't that...illegal?

Wha...?