Showing posts with label Alex Severin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alex Severin. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2011

Please Stand By! Works In Progress!

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Okay.  I know I've been unusually quiet over the past few days, but I am still here and kicking.  It may look as if I have been drawing blanks, but I assure you I've been hard at work, and am very excited about Meet The Author's night over on Nicola Matthews site on Friday.

I've been doing a great deal of reading, and yes I know I haven't posted any reviews.  Most of My time has been devoted to working on the Fungi collection.  I finished Story One, and am now working on Story Two which has been a pretty gut wrenching experience as there have been recent developments that not only put the story in focus and gave it direction, but have also made Me decide to put quite a bit more of Myself into a story than I usually do.

About a week ago I intercepted a tweet regarding censorship, and arrest made at a Spanish film festival where they were screening a movie known as A Serbian Film.  I weighed in on the comments section of the blog it had been posted from, giving My views on censorship and how often the "Moral Majority" likes to blur the lines between obscene and illegal just to suit their purposes.  That done I researched the film, getting a blow by blow synopsis on wikipedia and was pretty much appalled at the content of the film, and found Myself wishing to a certain extent I had not spoken on censorship before knowing more about the movie itself.

Okay, every 20 or 30 years a movie comes along the people scream to have banned for one reason or another.  The fervor usually passes after five years or so, social views of the content change, the film becomes acceptable, and everyone says, "Well, that wasn't so bad.  What was the big deal anyway?"

Let Me assure you, if this film goes that way then the human race deserves extinction. 

Yes, I gave the film the benefit of the doubt.  I figured the hype, despite the synopsis, was probably undeserved.  So, unable to help Myself I obtained a copy of the film to see for Myself.  For the past five days I've tasted nothing but bile in My mouth 24/7.  In My life there are several things I wish I could undo, and seeing this film is one of them because it had opened the doors to some of the real horrors of My life and I find that the only way to get any relief is to write it out.  Right now I feel sickened with Myself for having to know.

I know that usually hardcore horror films appeal to us guys, and over the past weekend I have seen stories that indicate that this piece of filth is actually going to get a theatrical release here in the U.S., although I can't even imagine how it could be cut enough to make it into even an NC-17 rated film.  All I want to say, because if you really have to know you can find a synopsis somewhere, is if you have a wife and children and you love them do not see this film.  It's the worst thing I have ever seen made for the screen.  It's heartless and hopeless, and anyone who could watch this filth and enjoy it needs to be locked away.

What I have to say, indirectly,  about the film and it content and creators, will all find voice in Story Two of the Fungi collection.

On a more positive note in regards to Story Two I will be giving cheap pops and mad props to Nicola Matthews and Alex Severin within the story.  I suppose as a way of making up for the fact that I have yet to review the stories of  theirs I recently finished.


Be sure to join Nicola and Myself for Meet The Authors Night on her site.  You can find all the details a few post below.  We have our fingers crossed for a big turn out, and hope to "see" you there.


Master_Vyle


Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Alex Severin Responds! My Letter From Plagiarism Whistle Blower!

Earlier today I sent an e-mail to plagiarism whistle blower Alex Severin.  Below is Alex's response, and I think it is a further eye opener in regards to the problem and the lack of response from those who claim to want to protect the works of independent authors:

Hi there, Michael,

I've been following your ranty tweets!  LOL

I've got all her aliases and other details on Google Alerts, so I found
out about your friends blog and subsequently, your blog and Twitter.

Amazon are assholes. They don't give a shit. I can't even believe they've
not removed the remaining content after 5 have been subject to DMCA
notices and I told them the other two were also 100% plagiarized. They
don't remove anything without a formal DMCA notice and it has to be EXACT,
has to have certain lines in it; I knew that and this is why I put a
sample DMCA notice on my site and linked to it in the alert.

It took me days to compile all the stories. But kept on at it - I had
complete conviction that every story in every book belonged to somebody
else. When I get that feeling about something, I ignore it to my peril.

I'm sure Mistress Klepto is going to start up again under a new ID
somewhere else. Since none of us actually hold legal copyright
registrations for any of the works, there's no legal standing to file a
lawsuit. That's not to say that we can't go ahead and and actually do that
- it would only take ONE story to be registered to have grounds to file a
suit if needs be.

I'm really dissapointed at the response I've had. At first, I thought,
great, half of ASSTR's members are e-mailing me - they acted very quickly,
within hours of me sending out the alert. But, alas, none of the e-mails
were from any of the writers involved. It would seem none of them are
still using either the e-mails on file at ASSTR and Literotica, nor
logging into their accounts.  After the first batch of e-mails I sent out
like that (through the Lit interface and gathered e-mails,) I had no
responses whatsoever.  So, I decided to contact both sites directly and
disseminate the info throught my own blogs etc.

I also contacted a couple of writing site like WRITER BEWARE run by the
SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America,) but I've not had a response
from them either. Needles to say, Literotica did not respond to me, nor
did they post it on their forum. That was done by somebody on Lit who had
an ASSTR account also and got the messege from them. Just reading their
forum over the last few days, it would seem the Literotica owner doesn't
respond to anything at all.

The only reason word has started to get out is because a few people have
been incensed enough to repost my alert of blogs and forums. I'm so glad
that there are a few people who care. This has been pretty stressful! I
know nobody is gonna die or anything like that and it's not the end of the
world, but damnnit, it means something to me. And I felt obligated to do
everything I could to get this info out.

Actually, just before the word got out, I was considering doing another
round-up of e-mails and trying again. If the last two books don't
disappear in the next few days, I will do that. She needs to be shut down.

Sorry this is so long!  LOL

All the best...

- Alex Severin.

www.AlexSeverin.com
www.MySpace.com/Vampire_Erotica_Stories
www.Facebook.com/SeverinVampireErotica

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Thanks again, Alex, from Myself on behalf of everyone you have made aware of this problem.


Master Vyle


PLAGIARISM UPDATE! And Then There Was One!

Here's the lastest update on the plagiarist everyone loves to hate, one "Misstress" Ana Phylaxis.  I just checked Amazon.com and only one of her "works" remains.  We will see if it gets taken off within the next few days, and if not then I will go over Alex Severin's initial e-mail and make an effort to contact all Literotica authors whos works were used to create this final rip-off story collection.

On a personal note I am giving My typist ten lashes for each time plagiarism and its various forms have been spelled wrong over the past few days.

LOL


Master Vyle