{"id":11370,"date":"2017-04-10T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=11370"},"modified":"2017-04-10T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:49:52","slug":"dear-lilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=11370","title":{"rendered":"Dear “Lilly”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, Lilly. I don’t know who you are. I hope very much that we have never and will never meet. I don’t know why you did what you did, but I do know that “your” book,\u00a0Submitting To My Boss<\/em> is a word-for-word copy of my book,\u00a0The Boss<\/em><\/a>. Come to think of it, maybe you should also hope very much that we never meet. Because I don’t take too kindly to frauds and cheats.<\/p>\n

The thing is, you didn’t just steal from me. You also stole Ava Violet’s She’s With Me<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from Wattpad and released it as “your” book. You didn’t even bother to change the title. And in what is perhaps the cruelest move of all, you used another author’s name to create brand confusion as a cover for your crime and to sell the books you stole. You named yourself Lilly Kate, just one letter off from legitimate author Lily Kate. You set her up to take the fall for you when you got caught. You even stole her bio and claimed to be a\u00a0USA Today<\/em> bestseller.<\/p>\n

You’re not.\u00a0You didn’t earn it. Lily Kate earned it with her novel,\u00a0Delivery Girl<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>I earned it with my first novel. We are\u00a0USA Today<\/em> bestselling authors. Not you.<\/p>\n

Again, I don’t know who you are. All I know is that you stole from me, you stole from Lily Kate, and you stole from Ava Violet. You took books that Violet and I offered for free and decided that you were entitled to make money off them. You decided that you deserved to profit off intellectual property that you had no claim to and that we weren’t profiting from, ourselves. You’re not a real author. You’re a con artist. You not only stole from all three of us, you charged readers 99\u00a2 for books they didn’t have to pay for.<\/p>\n

I hope that one of the companies you published “your” books through will provide me with the information I need to take legal action against you. So, I take it back. I hope very much that we\u00a0do<\/em> meet. When I see you in court.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\nThe wrong author to try this on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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