Good News and Bad News

15Mar08

Right now it’s raining cats and dogs while the sun is shinning bright. It suits me and the mood I find myself in.

I’ll save the good news for last…so the bad news:

Earlier today I was made aware of the fact that one of my one shots had been published on a different writing archive site, renamed and given credit to someone else. They changed the names of the characters but that’s all they changed. Needless to say I was angry and sadden by this. However I wasn’t surprised, I was waiting for something like this to happen. I was able to contact the admin of the site, explain my situation and within the hour the story had been taken down. And the guilty party’s membership had be revoked. I’m not going to say which site and the username, just to give them some respect, although they gave me none. But as I always say Karma is a bitch.

So what does this mean to my readers? Well for one Locked Away and Changing Metamorphosis updates will cease effective immediately. This suspension is open-ended. Until I can find a more effective way of protecting the documents. I’m not to worried about them because like I’ve said they are rough first draft chapters. There will be changes to them, when I start to get them ready for sending out to be published. I will still post one shots and various longer one shots. As far as the short stories from the poll go, I’m still going to post them on FictionPress, because I said I would.

I can’t say what’s going to happen to the site as of now. I honestly don’t know if I want to keep it up and running. It’s not as easy to update it as I would have like. And the whole point was to have a place to post draft updates. It sucks that this happened. I’ve only had the site for less than 5 months.

I thank the reader who brought this to my attention and if the guilty person is reading this then…shame on you.

And what about Jade. Well that’s part of the good news. I finished it last night. I don’t know what to do about posting it, I want to post the final chapter. Because it’s an important thing for all of us. You guys have been with me for the most part of it. Four long years I’ve been working on it and 1 year I’ve been posting it. So that’s some time invested on both sides.

So what happens now? Well I’m going to sit on Jade for about a month, then send it around the critiquing group before I start draft 2. During that time I’ll continue to work on Locked Away and CM. But I’ll also work on the short stories. I hope to keep in touch with you guys via here, email, and FictionPress. I’ve gotten a total of 20 more response to the new one shots and the short stories. Most of those responses are to a sequel for Natalia, which I’ve been working on all day, in between dealing with this mess. So look for it sometime tomorrow.

Again I want to extend my sincerest apology, when I figured out what how I’m going to get the last chapter of Jade out. I’ll let everyone know.

-Juni Lyn

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