Author has trademarked common word; threatening other authors over its use

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    mental picture of nipples with angry faces ...
     
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    cheery cheesecake?
     
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    GOD! I proofread my posts, God damn it! Cherry cheesecake! Cherry!

    Urgh! I hate typos.
     
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    I only asked, because I've seen typos in her "look inside" pages on Amazon, so I was wondering if it was her typo.

    (sorry) xx
     
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    At least he wasn't offering cherry chapstick!! LOL
     
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    Don't worry, I'm annoyed at myself, not you. The most glaring error I found was a sentence that began with "I can tell by the way his eyes travel down my blouse..." and then she goes off on a tangent about her backstory and never actually says what Drew can tell. I do that all the time, THAT'S WHY YOU PROOFREAD!
     
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    and have editors. The page I'd read, (which was a page one) had the closing speech marks missing.
     
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    Yeah. "Natural quality" and all.

    I feel like this thread would have ended a long time ago if the books hadn't turned out to be such a joke.
     
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    :superlaugh:

    That really did make me laugh out loud!
     
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    FYI, her just shy of two hour rant, is still up on the FB page authors behaving badly, if you want to watch it.
     
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    Update from Sam, the font designer - someone aught to set up a go fund me for his legal bill so that he can pursue this as from what I've read, money is the only thing standing in his way.
     
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    :superlaugh::supercool:
     
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    Future episode of 'Will It Fit'. :p
     
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    Unfortunately, it happens. A 26-year-old teacher I subbed for a couple-three years ago got busted for bonking with two different senior boys. She waited till they were 18, but jumped the gun and did it before they graduated. Major miscalculation on her part . . .
     
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    Maybe she was thinking about the Chiltern Hills.
     
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    I had another look. They're not even "mountainous abs". They're "ab-mountains". I wish I was joking.
     
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    FFS that’s even worse! This is hilarious: for some reason all this time I was thinking pecs, not abs! Pecs might almost make sense but would still be cringeworthy, but just now when it hit me that it’s abs...wtf Faileena?

    If the guy was hot his abs would be plains! Not mountains! Clearly Faileena (ha—my autocomplete knows Faileena now) failed geography. Or geographical sex 101.
     
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    According to a gay friend of mine, the valleys between extremely chiseled abs are sometimes known, in those circles, as
    cum gutters.
     
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    "You gave my monster abnormal abs?"
     
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    FFS Don’t tell Faileena...
     
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    Or if he is just a mountain?
    insane-body-builder-7.jpg "And on your left is Mt. Man Meat. And coming up on your right in few blocks...":p
     
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    That made me laugh out loud and go eeeeewww at the same time!
     
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    I'm sorry, but that is one huge turn off.
     
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    Yep - and I've been watching that video, listening to her talking about how it's "real people, dealing with real problems" and "reaching people's hearts" and I mean, come on, it's porn! Also, how she does more than one draft and has proof-readers! *Snort*
     

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