WTF

[mistressace]

This travesty has just been brought to my attention and as an author, I am furious. Someone has apparently created a fanzine from my story Without A Trace and someone else is selling it on e-bay.

This has been done without my knowledge. The fanzine has been created without my permission. Someone has stolen from me and is profitting from my work.

If any of you find this zine, let me know who is selling it and who printed it. I know I haven't written anything since my beta passed away - and things like this will damn well guarantee I won't write anything again. This journal will be locked to friends only as soon as I get back from Comi-con.

No love

Ace

Comments

[ladyivy.livejournal.com]

That's horrible. I don't print out and bind stories, but I have a friend that does and when she wanted to get rid of some to gain space she simply gave them away to other fans (I know that's what she did; I have several of them as a result). No one should make a profit off of someone else's intellectual property, fan fic or not.

I hope you got an answer, and they took it down.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I used to print out and bind stories for a couple of friends of mine who couldn't afford to buy a computer -- but I warned both of them that death would be immediately forthcoming if I ever caught them selling their "personal" zines! They completely agreed, as you said above, that no one should make a profit from fanfic. One of these days I'll buy myself an e-reader and I'll never have to print out a long story to spare my eyes again, I'll just pop it into Word and drop it into the reader!