I sometimes do a Google search on my pen name and I always get a ton of links to sites that claim that you can get my books for free – provided that you register and give them your credit card number.

It’s so depressing.

Not because I know my books can be stolen and put out there, but because it is so easy to be fooled by these guys and lose a lot more money than you hoped to save.

And the number of those scam sites seems to increase every time I run the search.

When I first started publishing, I filed a lot of Copyright Infringement reports, and in most cases, it does work. Particularly with large companies like YouTube and Amazon. But then you have all those smaller sharks that never answer, never list their email and generally don’t want to follow the rules.

But what can you do?

Get pissed and swear at your computer, vowing to never write another story?

Or simply laugh at them since they are showing the cover for one story while using the title for another story?

On a good day, I pick the latter.

But today, I think I’ll just stop writing altogether since it’s not worth the fuss (Amazon has just blocked one of my books again. I should probably start writing about cute kitties instead…).