…an Author’s lament… where Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow and modern pirates differ…

…I’m not much into watching movies… neither on the big screen nor on television… I suffer from a prevalent writers’ disease… I generally, and unwittingly, find myself boringly ‘solving the plot’ ‘way, ‘way before the final credits… the exceptions are films which are either chewing gum for the brain, which I enjoy immensely, such as the Die Hard offerings with Master Bruce Willis, or the pleasantly ‘let it roll and make me laugh’ presentations of ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean’…

…the characterisation of Cap’n Jack Sparrow is nuanced up so deliciously by Master Johnny Depp that the story line is a far secondary consideration to this ol’ Scots Jurassic movie-goer… but that’s where my affinity with pirates begins and ends… I’m a self-publishing author (yeez may have noticed!)… and like so many thousands of my fellow scribblers, my WURK is the result of many long hours, days, weeks and months of pouring my creative heart and soul into my Jack Calder crime thrillers… how galling it is then, to acknowledge that hundreds, if not thousands, of pirate sites steal our books and pass them on to readers who may or may not be aware of their illegal complicity in these sales… I use the Blasty program in an effort to minimise  the theft of my titles, but I know, like the Hydra, the more that get cut down, even more rise up in their place, usually the same operators switching to yet another name to peddle their stolen goods… it is NUTHIN short of flogging counterfeit products… someone else’s labour purloined… sadly, the practice is widespread, and the only means most of we writers have to counter effectively without the huge costs of suing, is attempting to persuade the reading public NOT to download pirated books… please share the message… pirate book downloads are THEFT… see yeez later… LUV YEEZ!

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