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

I wonder why she’s not yet gone after the author of “Cocky Author”?

 

@cutecat22 They can take 50 Shades away, but PC Fairy Tales are hilarious.
There is something wrong with the people who wrote those revs on that image
you posted from goodreads. It just comes off as strange, and that is saying something
coming from me.

 

It's been a long time since I read the PC Fairy Tales - I might just have to dig it out. That was the first two pages I came across when I searched Fettucine's book, I may have to go and read it ...

Judging by some of the stuff I've seen on the net and on twitter, there are a number of readers who are blatantly staying away from her books and reading anything and everything remotely related to C*cky by any other author.

 

I uhhh...I....well...ummm, I've got nothing.

 

Is she for real? Seriously?

 

Oh, good, God!

https://faleenahopkins.blogspot.com/2018/05/romance-author-faleena-hopkins-on.html

She really hasn't got a clue!

She apparently contacted three authors before this started, surely by their response (and one was a friend of hers) she should have known she was tramming down the wrong road???

 

I got lost Midway through, what the hell was I reading! Was Miss Hopkins blogging to herself? Either way she comes off as a complete nutcase. This is stuff mental people do, has she lost it.

 

What the fuck was that?

Meanwhile, the Special of the Day in the cafeteria is coq au vin.

And the rooster's family want their fucking trademark back.

 

Suzan Tisdale reminds me of my mother.

 

IDK what the hell I just read, but somebody has their head buried in the sand
(or up their own ass).

It is quite funny to watch Miss Hopkins backpedal like their is no tomorrow.
Seriously she is just doing it to get attention, and sound like a self masturbatory
twat. Almost told her I think her writing is shit in a comment on her blog.

 

I find it quite interesting that the open letter has been on her blog for a day and not one person has left a comment on it. From either a fan in her corner, or one of the authors out there allegedly bullying her.

Yeah, I find that really strange.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks she's back peddling at the beginning. But the whole thing reads like the first half is saying "I done wrong and I know it" while the rest of it is saying "but I ain't gonna do anything about it so suck it up!"

There is soooo much she could do - even at this stage - to rectify the situation and go back to being an author writing books, only now, more people know her name. And if she does rectify the problem, then there will be a large number of people who may give her the benefit of the doubt and turn into new readers/fans.

Maybe this HAS all been one huge publicity stunt that has not yet quite ended ... if it is, then it was either a genius move, or professional suicide!

 

It was a genius move into professional suicide.

But yeah it seems odd that nobody has left a comment on her letter.

 

I found real actual footage of her baiting the mob for fun or profit:

 

I am thinking about just leaving Psychostick's Hokey Fucking Pokey link as a comment on her blog.
Should I?

 

Nope, just like with the video, I lasted about ten seconds.

 

In addition to the theory I posted way, way back somewhere in this thread, I wonder if she's working with some hotshot idiot of an attorney who went pro bono thinking he could make a name for himself by turning shit on its head. I've seen that happen in other areas of entertainment. Usually by someone smart, though, which doesn't seem to be the case here.

 

I don't think she's ever mentioned an actual attorney, although she has mentioned a law firm, but only in the C&D letter that was posted.

 

Ah. I remember now. Thank you. It's hard to keep up with all the shit hitting the fan. Back to my original theory of there not being one at all. This story's had some legs, that's for sure. Usually it would have been over by now.

 

I think a lot of that is to do with the fact that she just can't seem to accept that she's in the wrong. Books, authors, the written word have been around for hundreds of years, and the first trademarking system came in around 1857, so if what she did was somehow "OK" to do, then a lot of us would've been doing it by now for ourselves.

I don't think she fully understands copyright or trademarking, and I think her fast rise (because lets face it, she has achieved quite a chunk in just a couple of years) has actually gone to her head, to the point that she thinks she's in the same league as people like Jamie McGuire, J K Rowling, E L James, Stephenie Meyer, and Syliva Day to name but a few. The trouble is, she's not up there with these people, not even close.

If it's fame she's after, she's not going to get it. Notoriety, yes.