Pirating sites...

OK, so why do people think it's alright to steal??

e-Book theft is a BIG problem I wish they would do something about.

It's like walking into a grocery store and walking out with an apple without paying for it. 

SAME CONCEPT.

YES, putting an authors book(s) up on a site after you read it for anyone in the world to download or read for free is WRONG OF YOU TO DO!

We authors, our publishers, editors, cover artist and everyone in between work hard to put books out there.

When someone downloads a book for FREE instead of buying it,  it's called...STEALING, anyway you want to look at it. 

(If you're looking for FREE books, to download legally-read to the bottom)

Here's an example for you... pirating people.

You go to work, work your 8 hours.

You go to get your money for your hard days work and the boss tells you...What, you want to be paid for your work? HA, what are you kidding, we're like one of those pirating sites, we take your work and you get nothing for it.

OR

Ever worked any overtime, been promised mileage or get an 'oh go ahead and buy that',we'll pay you. AND they don't...

HOW would you feel??

Angry, pissed, furious...

WELL guess what ... That's how we feel when someone pirates our hard work.

Not to mention the copyright infringements and legal stuff.

Why am I sooooo ticked????

I'll tell you. I had to send legal notification of copyright infringements to TWO sites in the matter of ten minutes!!

AND I know there are many more out there. (sad)

I have to feed my family too you know! And people who download my books from a pirating site, is STEALING food, clothing, and educational experiences from MY child! 

Now there are some awesome publishers who GIVE books away for FREE at Amazon, and Barnes & Noble as promotional tools. 

I have a NOOK and I receive several publisher newsletters and emails about FREE books being given away. 

So I go on my NOOK and if I like the blurb and the book... 

YES, I'll download, BECAUSE IT'S BEING GIVEN AWAY FOR A FREE PROMOTION BY THE PUBLISHER!

See the difference??

PLEASE see the difference and END these pirating sites.

Many hugs

C~

Samsung Galaxy S3 - Upgrade :-)

Woot!! I can't tell you how excited I am to FINALLY be in the 'smart'!! :-)

For my birthday my wonderful husband went and bought me a Samsung Galaxy S3 and I love it!!

I know the S4 just came out, that's ok, I didn't want that one LOL. 

So I'm finally tuned in to the smart phone world. My old phone text, made calls and took pictures, which was fine with me, but I wanted to be more hooked up :-) and after playing with my sister-in laws G3, I wanted one, hehehehe.

So yes, I have the marble white one like in the picture above and I can't wait to see everything it can do. My husband's showing me the 'basic' stuff so I don't get frustrated and throw it across the room :-)

He asked if I'd played with it, to customize it to my likes and I told him... "I didn't want to hit the wrong button and have the thing crash on me or something." LOL.

He chuckled then told me there's nothing I can do that he can't fix. *Phew* I love it that he's so techie!! And cute, he's cute too!! Woot!! :-D  YAY!!

Hope everyone has a great day and read lots!!

Hey, now I can download the Nook app, and the Amazon app and....   :-D 

LOVE IT!!

Have a great day all!!

C~

** All picture rights go to Samsung and its rightful owners. **

Wedded Bliss...Coming Soon

You know as soon as I wrote the post title, I hit the back button, erasing it saying 'that sounds too much like a book.' 
And then I put it back :-)
Because it is a good title for a book, so ahhh what the heck right! LOL.

But it's really for "the only 6 more Sundays" I have until I walk down the aisle, or in my case a beautiful pathway in the woods. 
Last minute details are getting done, the wedding planner is on top of everything and we go for our engagement photo shoot today. Woooooo right. Hahahahaha. 

 It's nothing but a planned chaos around here with the day job, homeschooling, writing and wedding planning. But Aaahhhhh, gotta love it!! And I do!!!!!!!  :-)

So those two Ellora's Cave Books I downloaded onto my Nook will have to wait a few more days or weeks, until I have a chance to crack them open!!

The third book in my Other Kin Series is going well, it's all been plotted out and hopefully tonight after we get back and my day off tomorrow I'll be working on the little baby to get her rolling real well and finished quick, so I can get the fourth book that's been itching at me out of my head LOL.

Hope everyone has a great Sunday and a safe and happy Martin Luther King Day.

Happy reading!!!!!

C~ 
  * Picture used with permission by Microsoft Clipart Gallery terms.

Nook Color Apps

I'm looking for a decent 'note taking' app so I can jot down my 'ideas' :-) 
Any recommendations out there??

;-)   C~

Nice N' Naughty: Some Nook reviews drive me up a wall...

Nice N' Naughty: Some Nook reviews drive me up a wall...: And they're NOT even for my books. What am I talking about you ask, well just sit back and let me tell you.

I have a Nook and I love my Nook (thank you my sexy man for buying it for my birthday *wink*), I scour the NookDom every day looking for a good read. Now there are a lot of good free books you can download and I do. I love reading, Hello *knock, knock* I'm an author, of course I read. I read anything from Shakespeare to the Erotic in all sub-genres.

So, what has me in a tizzy...

OK, so I'm surfing and find a book that looks interesting. It's M/M -- ladies and gents, it's soooo obvious before you even read the overview what the genre is as there are two male chests on the cover. NOW what do you think it's going to be??

So here I am tulling through the reviews and a lot of them are very flattering to the author and the book, when I run across this...

"This is so disgusting, two men, how can you write this trash."

Well I took a double take just to make sure I was reading it correctly and immediately got pissed at this Anonymous reviewer.

SERIOUSLY person, are you Serious?? You cannot tell me you did not know what you were downloading to read! The book cover, the title the OVERVIEW for cripes sake says it all!
Creative Criticism is one thing but bashing just to bash, is what's disgusting!

If you're not into reading about different sexual situations, then don't freaking download a book that is not straight-laced, vanilla, or you're type of enjoyment. If you don't like 'spankings' then don't download a 'spanking' book. How freaking more logical can I say it??

The sad truth is, you know they wrote it just to be mean and bash the author and the book.

Item two...

Found another great book, you can tell from the cover it may lead to a menage, Yes, that's a threesome, three people in one sexual situation. I mean come one, there's two male chests and a female on the cover. The overview states it's a menage paranormal, Hmmm...can't get much clearer than that right...or so we thought.

Reviews all good, until this pops up...

"Well it was a good book until there was an anal sex scene, they should have made that more clear, it's gross, I never would have downloaded it if I knew there was anal, it just puts me off."

Ok, it puts you off, no biggy, but let us step back here a moment and take a look at that cover again...*Carefully eyeballing* and YEP I have come to a conclusion...

Are you blind??? Again, Seriously?? There are two men and one woman on the cover, it's an EROTIC read, did you not think that with two men and one woman there may be some anal??

Alright, I can see if there was only one man and one woman in the story, where the reader might have stated such if 'anal' wasn't listed in the overview, but it's still an EROTIC read, it can happen. (I know because I wrote an anal scene in A Slave's Way Out and that's one man on one woman.)

Nook readers you also have to remember, this is not the Publisher's website. Most publisher's give a little more information about what's in the book, like...anal or BDSM or M/M or F/F scene, even if you're looking at the EROTIC books.

But what do you think is going to happen with two men and one woman?? Maybe not in every book, but with a menage there's a good possibility there will be some anal going on.

All I'm saying is if it's not your type of read, then why bash the book after you download it?? If you download it just to see what it's like and you don't like it, well, that's ok. There's something called responsibility on your end too, it just didn't download on it's own. You had to hit the button TWICE to make sure you want the download.

I love and I'm sure my fellow authors love to hear CREATIVE CRITICISM for their works.
If you don't like a book, there are ways you can point that out without being nasty and mean.

Happy reading all!!

C~