I WAS A VICTIM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT AND COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Some grifter on SoundCloud tried to distribute my latest novel without permission or payment. I quickly took care of this, and it’s time to talk about combatting this ongoing intellectual property theft and deception.

Bangkok circles, the fifth novel in the acclaimed NJA Club Series. A grifter on Soundcloud thought they could get away with stealing my property and money. It’s easy to get rid of this variety of dumbbell crook, who openly exploit their thefts.

I recently published the fifth novel in my NJA Club Series, titled Bangkok Circles. To my great joy, it quickly became my most popular and best-selling novel; I feel like the songwriter who finally started seeing some decent royalties.

Sadly, these days, behind every artist stands a crooked grifter looking to make money or publicity or followers by distributing someone else’s work without permission and without payment. The most notorious of these thieves are the Peoples Republic of China, most easily accomplished through TikTok, their main tool for intellectual property theft. (One of many reasons I support banning TikTok in the US.)

I have abandoned attempts to promote my work through the myriad of promotion sites and services that bombard every author with offers of best-seller status (whatever that actually means) for a reasonable price. It took me a while to figure this out out, but here’s the truth: virtually none of them produce anything close to enough sales to justify using them. In most cases, your book winds up hidden among hundreds of others…