also adhd brain, craving structure: days off…boring
adhd brain: omg you need to do this, and this, and this, and this and this and this and this and this and this! REEEEE!
also adhd brain, “feels like my skin weighs an actual ton moving is really hard, I think I’ll just lay here… I didn’t get anything done today, I suck as a person, I’m a failure, I hate myself.”
If you are a romance writer with the word “Cocky” in one of your titles, and you’ve received a takedown notice from author Faleena Hopkins, please check out this Twitter link on this bullshit.
Have you heard yet? (possibly, it’s all over my FB and twitter)
Oh look,
Faleena is back at her bullshit. One of my friends had her work removed from Amazon and was issued a copyright notice from Hopkins because their plots were “too similar”. The similarities where that their man characters drank red wine, and featured vampires.
She’s on my shitlist for authors to never rec or review.
Blacklist this author.
Also, if you publish with a non-US publisher, she can’t touch you.
I’d also like to add that the owner of a certain author group on Facebook deleted someone else’s post about the trademark issue, and then Faleena was encouraged by the mods to tell “her side of the story” but she turned off commenting on the post, and then one of the mods wrote vague posts ranting about people PMing him for liking Faleena’s post so now he’s blocking people who disagree with him, and they turned off posting for the rest of the weekend.
Let me know if you want me to post the screenshots.
Post them, this woman and anyone that side with her need to be publicly shown as the scum they are. This whole trademark thing is bullshit, she’s taking advantage of it, so I imagine her books are not very good.
@thebibliosphere and @caitlynlynch, can you please reblog if you feel comfortable? Below I have screenshots about how some of Faleena’s author friends have reacted:
Michael Anderle created the Facebook group 20BooksTo50k and his friend Craig Martelle is one of the mods. A post about the trademark issue went up a few days ago, and this is what happened:
Then Faleena Hopkins went on with her BS excuse on several FB groups, you can find them on Twitter, and it’s too long for me to bother posting on here, but when someone commented that she shouldn’t bring it up in the group, she said that the mods urged to show her side of things.
Now I wanted to brush this off and pass it off as her lying, but then:
Craig Martelle has to start acting like your average rich straight white male who gets criticized. Then he went on to do this:
Now you see, Faleena Hopkins was a guest speaker at the 20Books conference last year, and I’ve heard that she’s a friend of theirs. If they keep her on, I completely understand. That’s the only conference invite she’ll ever get again, and they’re just looking out for their friend.
However, being a whiny tantrum stomping little child on a FB group is just unnecessary. Own up to your fake rules:
Faleena Hopkins was going after other authors after she trademarked a common word. There’s no defending that, and they’re shutting down all conversation about it except for her side of the story and booting people from the FB group. Sucks for them because all the other writing groups are talking about it and mocking them for their reaction to all the bad press Faleena is getting.
Also, shame on them for deleting important indie information the original trademark post had and refusing to let people talk about it while vague posting rants about it. But what else do you expect from rich straight white men, who aren’t really oppressed like a good portion of the romance industry is, that have to face valid criticism?
The RWA and one or more Big 5 Trad Pubs are involved now. There’s a time to stand up for your friend, and there’s a time to let them know the consequences of their actions.
Reblogging for information, because this is some fucked-up shit.
Also a case study in How Not To Get Ahead As An Author.
I honestly think the only thing Faleena Hopkins can do now is go dark, start a new pen name, and never show her face at any conferences in case someone connects the two. Otherwise she’s going to find herself standing alone in the corner a lot.
I never like excluding people from the table, but in this instance Faleena Hopkins can’t sit with us. There’s no room at the table for this bullshit.
There’s an excellent roundup of the issues, along with expert commentary from lawyers, here.
The tl;dr version, via @sugarsparks13:
@PhillyD have you heard about #CockyGate? #FaleenaHopkins trademarked the word “cocky” and is now threatening to sue other authors who have used the word in a book title unless they change it.
…And things then blew up. Most notably: A legal challenge to the trademark has already been filed with the US Patent Office by a romance writer who’s also a lawyer. (Apparently there are quite a few of these….) Kevin Kneupper did the filing on his own dime, is refusing to take contributions toward the amount spent, and says he’ll litigate it going forward (which may take months). As a result a lot of people are buying his latest book. I intend to go do just that, momentarily.
Meanwhile, if you need a dunking in lovely righteous outrage to enliven your Monday (or Bank Holiday Monday, on this side of the water), you could do worse than check out #cockygate.
one of the really great things is they contacted the designer of the font she used, and he certainly didn’t give permission for all of this, and the way font copyright works in the USA, technically he could get all of her covers pulled…
i had a dream that i was solid snake workin at taco bell
“Uhhhh, can I get a doritos locos taco?”
“Doritos locos taco… Colonel, what’s the procedure?”
“That’s a taco with a special shell, Snake – made not from an ordinary corn tortilla but designed to evoke the famous tortilla chip, packed with extreme flavor. Substitute the shell and prepare the rest of the taco normally.”
“Got it. Excuse me, customer. There’s both Cool Ranch and Nacho Cheese shells here. Which would you prefer?”
“Cool ranch, please.”
“On it.”
can we get david hayter in on this
guess who met david hayter
David Hayter is a glorious man who clearly loved his role/loves his fans.
reblogging this again because fucking Liquid’s VA did a response to this:
From what I’ve read, it’s not uncommon for peacocks to be aggressive during mating season. Sometimes the aggression is actual aggression but sometimes it’s other things, like the peacock being imprinted or raised by humans and basically being unable to differentiate between human and peacock thinking a human is a hen and uh. Yeah.
Peacocks apparently rattle their feathers at such a frequency that the feathers vibrate but not the eyespots, and, the actual tailfeathers under the large train of fancy feathers is what vibrates.
The most recent addition to my fowl collection of peafowl trivia is that the spimd frequency of a peacock’s train rattle is on a frequency that also causes the peahen’s crest feathers to vibrate (and probably other cocks’ too) up to some distance away.
