Is This Considered A Cliche?

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are a product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by M-A-COYNE

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We're like some messed up, twisted version of Romeo and Juliet. He's the eldest son and successor to the most powerful mafia. He's handsome, charming, and dangerous. I'm the product of a one night stand gone wrong. How is this going to work?

Jacqueline Doyle, known to everyone as Jackie, is a blunt, innoncent, completely ignorant to her surroundings seventeen year old. One day she unwittingly insults the most powerful Mafia leader in America and his wife. Instead of being "taken care of" the couple decides she would be perfect for their eldest son, Alphonso Venturi; and Alphonso finds himself agreeing. It's love at first sight for Jackie when she meets Alphonso, but when she finds out about his family and a dark secret that involves those she cares about, Jackie must choose between her "one true love" or her future. When she makes her decision, fate's not going to be too kind.

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I published my first ever book, Is This Considered A Cliche and I Blame It All On Brent! when I was fifteen on a site called fictionpress. I didn’t even think out my reasons for choosing fictionpress. I had already posted some stories on its sister site, fanfiction.net,  All I needed was a place where people could read my stories and hopefully give me feedback. Fictionpress is very easy to use. Once you sign up  and decide on a screen name, you can post stories chapter by chapter on your profile page. You write a summary for each story, and classify it by genre, which helps readers find their preferred type of stories. Readers can leave reviews, which are emailed to you and posted on the site with your story. That’s all there is to it: basically foolproof.

I don’t know why my book gained so much popularity. I’d like to say it’s because of the quality of the writing, but after editing those first few chapters a few years later, I can’t believe that. Maybe it was the plot, or the characters. The popularity wasn’t necessarily a good thing, however. The problem with a site like fictionpress is that your work isn’t officially copyrighted, and it’s a lot easier to copy and paste a story online than to do so with a hard copy. Is This Considered To Be A Cliche has been plagiarized at least four times and I Blame It All On Brent! has been copied at least eight times.

Earlier this year, there was this girl on wattpad who called herself Aamani Jacob. This person took I Blame It All On Brent! and copied it word for word. The only thing she changed was the title and the name of my main female protagonist. I was so angry that I took down I Blame It All On Brent! on fictionpress.

My readers alerted me to these copies in reviews, at which point I could email the site and the user and force them to take it down. Although all the plagiarizers backed off as soon as I emailed them, it’s still an unpleasant, scary experience.

I’m not the only writer who has had this problem. Many of the quality writers online are taking down their stories due to plagiarism. While I refuse to be scared away, I can’t blame those who are. Even if you want to write your own story but is to lazy to do so and you see a story that you like, that dosen't give you the right to steal someone elses. At the end of the day, it’s still our work.....

Hehe :) End of rant.. You may now continue with reading →