Howdy, howdy! I'm still learning how to work Goodreads (as evidenced by the fact that I hit the wrong button and had to start this post all over). Still, I have to say this is a fabulous site! I wish such a thing had existed when I was a teen. I would have spent all my on-line time here, surfing books, talking about them, hearing directly from authors... heavenly.

Anyway, I planned to have my first blog here be something about who I am and the characters I'm writing about, but instead, there's a much more pressing issue that I wanted to talk about first.

Recently, a good friend of mine, Sharazade, (by the way, read her stuff, it is really good), got interested in a little research on Amazon. You know how it goes, right?

You start looking at something and then you just go hmmmm.... pretty soon, you're following trails and the next thing you know, you've spent an hour browsing Wikipedia and gone from Kristy McNichol (whatever happened to her) and landed at Sigmond Freud by way of Desi Arnez, Fidel Castro, JFK and Marilyn Monroe.

Well, Shar's research landed her in a much more worthwhile place. The piracy of erotica. Have a read of this story for the details.

So, how do we all help? Before you pay out your hard earned cash or even click the button on that oh so attractive free download, take a second to look at what you're getting. Does it look legit? Try cutting and pasting a sentence or two into your browser and see what comes up. If it isn't original, move on. Click the report button on your way out of town. Those of us who slave (so to speak) hundreds and hundreds of hours over our original text thank you.