Miscellaneous Tidbits

I have some unrelated odds and ends to share with you this week:


  • CONNECTICUT ATTORNEY GENERAL INVESTIGATING AMAZON AND APPLE

  • MOLLY JOSS PREDICTS…

  • WANT AD DIGEST AWARDED $6M IN COPYRIGHT CASE

TOVE ALYCE WARMERDAM (a.k.a. Tove Alyce Sebasstian) PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY IDENTITY THEFT

Hi Angela,
Tove Warmerdam (the previous publisher of Seattle Dog Magazine / Queen Dog) has pleaded guilty. They also uncovered a previous felony under one of her previous last names. Her sentencing will be September 8.
G.
READERS, IF YOU LIVE NEAR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND THIS SENTENCING to show your support for Tove Warmerdam’s victims, and to send a message to the judge – that these types of criminals deserve jail time. Tove Warmerdam should not be allowed to walk free after what she did! Read more HERE.
Tove Warmerdam’s sentencing will be on:
WEDNESDAY – SEPT. 8, 2010
8:30 a.m.
King County Courthouse
516 Third Ave.
Seattle, WA 98104
Courtroom of Judge Julie Spector – Room W842

Plagiarism…or Work-for-Hire?

Does using a writer’s work in a work-for-hire project mean the person or company who hires the writer can claim it as “original”? What rights can writers/researchers of articles claim? What can the buyer of those articles rightfully claim about the writer’s work? Are the pitfalls the same for a ghostwriter who writes a celebrity book?

I Must Confess By Russ Heitz

Katy Terrega’s book, It’s A Dirty Job…Writing Porn For Fun And Profit! Includes Paying Markets!, reminded me of my own secret experiences as a writer of confession stories — stories for which I got paid. Did I sell my very first confession story? No. In fact, the first couple stories were flatly rejected without a word. Then, for some unknown reason, I thought, maybe it’s because I’m using my actual name: “Russ Heitz.” Maybe they don’t accept confession stories that are written by men. After all, ninety-nine percent of all confession stories have a first person female narrator. And how could a man possibly know how a woman feels about anything?
When I started using the genderless “R. L. Heitz” on the first page of every manuscript, the Macfadden checks started rolling in.