Torrentz

Have you heard of Torrentz? It seems to me a website where people upload shit they've pirated - including my book, Never Eighteen.

For those of you who use Torrentz, I'd like to school you on pirating books and such. I am a writer, this much we know. I'm what you'd actually call a mid-list writer, meaning, I'm not well known but someone felt my book was publication worthy.

In fact, I'm not even really on the mid-list anymore. I.E. I make no money off my book. Did I once? Sure. I made an advance. But I've seen no royalty checks. I'm not like a famous actor, actress or rock star that makes millions. Not that that makes it okay to pirate their stuff, it's still illegal. But if you do, it's no skin of their nose.
However, I am a single mom trying to make a wage to survive. I have two teenagers, one in college, the other headed there in a year and a half. When you pirate my book and share it with others - you are robbing me blind.

And Torrentz doesn't care. I don't know how many times I've sic'd my publicist for that book onto them. They still do not remove my copyrighted material. While people can read my book for free? I will probably not make a dime in royalties.

So, those who use Torrentz, I have a simple request. If you are going to read my book illegally for free, at least have the decency to give it a review on Amazon.  Getting reviews helps lower-than-mid-list authors like me get more attention.

I'm not particularly angry about this. I'm just tired of it and disappointed that I'm getting jilted out of pay because you can't pay $1.99 for the Kindle version of my novel. Seriously, 2 bucks.

Anyway. I will now step off my soapbox and head back to writing my next book so you have something to steal in the future.

Merry Christmas and all that.

Just wanted to wish everyone celebrating a Merry Christmas. Obviously I've had another couple busy weeks, at work, at home, everywhere. I'm sure we all have.


Just wanted to offer up that once again I'm offering up Dissected for free on Amazon for your Kindle today. Click here.




 And I'll share my Christmas card poem with you all that I sent out this year...

Can you believe it’s been a year,

since we’ve sent out these cards full of Christmas cheer.

We Bostics have been busy, that is for sure.

Let’s start with Rachel, my baby girl.

She turned 15 and started to drive,

at the wheel she certainly does thrive.

With both the girls drivers tests almost passed,

oh dear God I’m free at last!

She’s also still playing music with her band,

microphone in front, guitar in hand

As far as music, the girl is on fire,

she also made Wilson’s Concert choir.

Mary is also in high gear,

playing on three soccer teams this year

And she’s finally part of the working class,

now Megan no longer has to give her money for gas.

Can you believe she’s a senior already?

Applying to colleges, testing steadily.

Good news last week came through,

she got into her first choice school, Wazzu.

Megan’s been busy this year, to bring home the bread.

She coached both girls in soccer, which was quite a coup,

as her team Venom went 10 and 2.

She’s been a busy writing elf,

her new novel hit Amazon and bookstore shelves

She markets, cleans, laundries and shops,

and she’s starting her own business, the woman don’t stop.

So there you have it, 2013,

we three ladies await for what the next year might bring

A quieter house as Mary goes on her own,

and Rachel takes to the car instead of the home

Megan’s freedom comes but it’s bittersweet

her two angels are off to their drummer’s own beat

But for now we celebrate our life day to day,

in chaos and messes, in music, writing and play

Enjoy your families and the holiday cheer.

Merry Christmas to all, see you next year.

Pirates, Arg!!!

So, I have my book title on Google Alerts, and a couple weeks ago, it came up on this weird download site. It looked suspicious, so I sent it to my publicist at HMH. Turns out, it was a pirated version of my book available for download!!!! For free!!!!

I mean, not cool. My book is only $7.99. Cheaper for ebook. And I'm a poor starving artist!!! lol.

On the other hand, I was almost flattered that someone took MY book and felt it worthy enough to pirate it and give it away for free. haha. I mean, I'm a nobody and my book is just a little quiet thing still trying to make its way out in to the great big world.