Amazon Kindle Story Theft

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I have gotten into the ebook world a bit late (smartphone screens are hard on my older eyes) but I recently loaded Amazon's Kindle app onto my android tablet.

While searching for (ahem) favored types of stories, I found one entitled "Feminized Harem Slave" attributed to one Austin Logan. I downloaded the teaser excerpt only to find that, with the names changed, it is my story "The Sultan's Heir". I know this because ONLY the names have been changed - searching on text strings from my story shoot directly to the same spot in THAT story.

Being an inquisitive soul, I looked at another of 'his' stories, entitled "Virtual Transformation". I read the excerpt and thought I recognized it, too. I did - it is another name-changed ripoff of Karen Elizabeth L.'s classic "The Switch aka Turned into Sue," (posted at Fictionmania and elsewhere) again verified by several text-stream searches and location comparisons. He even copied typo's.

The "author" uploaded all 18 of "his" stories on one day in February of this year. Both my and Karen's stories predate FM, and in fact, mine was written for one of Sapphire's story contests in 1997. I can't prove that, as the domain of the address I submitted it from has been gone for almost 12 years, but I am NOT Karen and I am NOT Austin, and those ARE NOT his stories.

(growl, fume, spit, hackle)

I can't do much about this, but as I never intended or wanted to make any money off my writing, the fact that someone else is ripping people off for something I GAVE THEM FOR FREE just ticks me off!

So, here's what I can do - I'm going to try to write Karen and let her know (anyone got a good email addee for her? Please tell her I'm looking for her, so far without much luck).

I'm telling all of you because if you are thinking about Kindle, download my story (and Karen's for that matter) at Fictionmania for FREE.

If you are an author, particularly one who was around for the Pre-Fictionmania days of Alt.sex.stories (.tg or otherwise), you might want to check Mr. Logan's 'bibliography' on Amazon's Kindle Store, just in case. There are 16 other stories there, and the excerpts read like classic fetish internet/News Group/BBS erotica.

This is the first time I've had something like this happen to one of my stories, and I frankly do not know what to do about it. It's just wrong and I really, really want to bite someone.

warm furry (watch out for incipient claws showing) hugs.

Tiggs

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