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I wrote The Undead Heart (the first book in The Blood Thirst Series) and a few days ago I found out I was ROBBED! I worked for months writing the book and have gotten some really great reviews but noticed that more people were reading it than copies sold. A friend called and told me to look up The Undead Heart torrent and that I wouldn't believe what I found. She was right, I was shocked! Someone had taken my book and uploaded it on a torrent site to be given away for free! It spread from there to many other torrent sites as well. After some investigation we found that The Undead Heart has been illegally downloaded over 50,000 times. I'm not a rich or famous author. All the money that went into publishing The Undead Heart came out of my pocket and now I have nothing but lose to show for it. It's unfair and unstoppable! As far as profits are concerned it breaks down like this: The Undead Heart e-book is for sale on Kindle and Nook for $6.99 per copy. My royalty is $4.83 per copy sold. If the 50,000 illegal downloads had been legally purchased it would have netted me a profit of $241,500.00. Instead, I got nothing. I can't begin to describe how hurt, angry and disappointed I felt when I discovered this theft. To have someone take a piece of you and just give it away to everyone is incomprehensible! Blood Thirst (the second book in the series)is completed and nearly ready to be released. Because of the theft I actually consider not publishing the last 2 books in the series. My friends said they understand my anger but to not publish the next book would be unfair to the people who did legal purchase The Undead Heart and who were so kind with their comments and reviews. I don't know what to do! I'm sure I will publish Blood Thirst but would love to hear the thoughts and advise from the group! What would you do? Please feel free to repost this! Advice and comments can also be sent to bloodthirstseries@yahoo.com

Love Always,
Tate Jackson

I am sorry this happened. Because it can happen, it makes it just about impossible to make a living, or close to it, from your art. Would you be able to make your work available on Smashwords.com ? Others can purchase it in any e-reader format, like myself, I do not have a Kindle or Nook, but a Sony Reader, and then you can have more earning options.

Sure, I'll put it on smashwords today. It doesn't really matter where I put it now so I might as well put it on as many venues as possible. Not a bad idea at all. I'll try to get it done this evening. Thanks.

Tate wrote: "I wrote The Undead Heart (the first book in The Blood Thirst Series) and a few days ago I found out I was ROBBED! I worked for months writing the book and have gotten some really great reviews but ..."


I am so sorry that it happened to you. Don`t stop writting! I bet lots of your fans will be upset at this. Maybe try to advertise books on Twitter,Facebook and other social sites about ur book.I hope you decide to continue writting books and maybe have the buyer sign an agreement to not publish book online. I hope all goes well. :)

1) Get all of the links to the torrents,wherever they are and contact the site to have them removed.

2) Track the sales and compare to the dates of the torrents. I know this may sound counter-intuitive, but you might have actually gotten more sales because more people know about your book through the torrents. (I would try it for data-collection's sake, if nothing else.)

3) If the theft happened before publication, don't share with the same group of beta readers or tell them about what happened and ask them not to share with their friends.

4) Keep writing. It's a long distance race and sometimes people will cut you off. Dust yourself off and look forward.