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

Not sure on the cost, but it was designed by Set Sail Studios.

 

It's already been done!

 

@big soft moose

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fettucine-Holliday/e/B07CWDSV1Q/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1525891736&sr=8-1

 

I dunno, chickens sounds pretty funny to me... Look how well Chicken Run did...

 

You can do it! I have faith!

 

Also, I found this in the UF group that I joined recently on Facebook. It was done by Ilona Andrews team and it might be helpful as it relates to #cockygate.

http://www.ilona-andrews.com/psa-typical-industry-practices/

 

Looks like Amazon is listening to RWA:

 

Well I'm not surprised, if you write that quickly without giving it a proper amount of time to settle, and then edit, that's what you get.
I may not know that much about this business but I do know that much.

 

I'm not defending this particular author, but I do want to refute these statements. There ARE writers who can produce excellent books in a month. For example, L. A. Witt, a bestselling and award winning author who has about six pen names because she writes too much for one pen name, publishing at least a book a month. Her books are NOT rough first drafts and are as good as some writers could produce in a year. She's just fast and writes cleanly (and full time, which helps).

I'm not that fast, but it doesn't take me anywhere near a year to write a polished and well-edited book. Three months is plenty, even though I work full time. Some people write rough drafts and spend lots of time polishing them, other people write first drafts that don't need much polishing. Both are fine, but it's short-sighted of people in the former camp to say that since they can't do the latter, nobody can.

 

That's fair enough, my apologies. Perhaps it's too easy to see the way you do things and paint everyone with the same brush.
A month is some writing though.

 

Via Twitter:

 

I haven't picked up this particular author's books, but I know it's a trend in Indie writing to write shorter novella's and call them books. I've been in a few writing webinars where the author who's giving the talk actually recommends it. The result is novella's that are maybe 25,000 to 45,000 words being passed off as full-length novels. People want to devour a particular authors books, but they don't want to spend days doing it.

It's changed the way a lot of writers critique too. When I started writing my prose were long and heavily descriptive. I'd been doing a great deal of reading in series like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time and the like. My writing now is much tighter, and quicker paced. This is largely due to the feedback I received early on. Attention spans aren't what they used to be.

 

I've noticed this as well, and it's an excellent point.

 

Fair enough,

 

Thanks, BayView. Totally missed this browsing the forum on my phone and posted the same thing after you did

And way too freaking big now that I'm on my computer!

 

Neither of these things is true. You can get a trademark in a typeface used by others, and people get trademark registrations for words in common usage all the time. The issues here are whether she 1) violated a license agreement relating to the typeface (and whether that provision of the agreement is enforceable); 2) whether she was entitled to a registration at all on this particular word in relation to her good; and 3) whether her attempted enforcement of the registration goes beyond the scope of protection offered by the registration.

 

You can't get a trademark registration for a one-off title like you can for the title of a series. When enforcing the mark, however, it's not so clear. If you wrote a one-off called "Harry Potter and the [whatever]" I don't think JK Rowling would have any difficulty enforcing the mark despite the fact that you wrote a one-off and not a series. If, however, your use predated Rowling's use (or her filing date, in many cases) then she shouldn't be able to stop you.