Plagiarism Sucks

I read an article today about the overabundance of plagiarized stories on Amazon. These are books by self published authors, something I plan to be. An author, not a plagiarizer.

I was shocked. People were basically stealing short stories from message boards and simply putting their own names on them. Who does that? Jerks!

Thankfully some people discovered this was happening and reported the culprits.

This is exactly why I will not be publishing full stories as anything but a book. Sure, I will keep posting short stories here on my blog, but they are just writing exercises done in the spur of the moment, not in depth novels.