Its been a long and hard road but its finally here!
Red Ribbons, book one of Forgotten is going to finally be available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover! I don't have the date set just yet but once my proof arrives and I check it over, I will be letting you guys know! Im so excited for this! Its been almost ten years since I wrote the book and this journey to making it publish ready has been a task and a half. With doing so, if you purchase the hardcover through my website (because I will have it listed), you will have the option for me to add a page in the book with a typed, personalized message to you, from me! I am so beyond excited for this and I can't wait for you guys to finally get to hold Red Ribbons in your hands! Cheers! Anna
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Just launched a merch store!
https://anna-koski.myspreadshop.ca/ Let me know if you guys want any more designs added and I will be sure to put them up! Cheers! Anna Shadow of the Beast is going to be published!
It should be out by Dec 25th of this year. I am so excited, the hardcover editions now have a special look to them that I can't wait to show you. Also, Broken will be getting it's own hardcover edition! I am so excited because I have been wanting to do hardcover for it since I first published it but I didn't have a publishing platform that provided it. Now I do! So it's going to be amazing! Love you all! Cheers! I was given the amazing opportunity to do an interview with NFReads.com! I accepted and it just went live! You can find the interview here:
https://www.nfreads.com/interview-with-author-anna-koski/ I had a lot of fun with the interview and I hope it lets people get to know me a little better because I do like sharing with my readers! In other news, I just updated the site to show all of the books I have on wattpad currently. I did finished book 3 of Modern Cliches, which leaves a singular novella left for that series. Yay! I am working on Twisted Dark #4, Little Red, I'm getting close to wrapping up with the writing (not the updating, that will continue for a bit) for it which will take me to book SEVEN of Forgotten. Can you believe it? I've reached seven novels of that series! Only two more after A Handful of Daffodils and then the series is done! Which is absolutely amazing! Then I am still dabbling with Flint Strike, so some chapters for that might just be coming onto wattpad. Then there just might be a Fae romance and another sci-fi romance on the horizon. Kind of exciting! I hope this finds you all well and safe from the craziness of this world we currently live in. Love you all! Cheers, Anna Coming Feb 29th, 2020, book one of the Twisted Dark series, Witching Moon, will be available for purchase! Please watch for updates about price and locations where you can purchase the ebook, a paperback copy, and a hardcover option.
Cheers! Anna Hi guys! This is just to let you guys know about my current plans!
So the release date for Witching Moon has been pushed back until November/December to make room for current projects. One of which is a humor novella series. Book one: https://www.wattpad.com/story/69926070-kill-me-now-modern-cliches-1 Book two: https://www.wattpad.com/story/143037481-f-ck-me-modern-cliches-2 As well as me writing book three of the Twisted Dark series! That one is being released within the coming weeks. Currently it is on wattpad will be released chapter by chapter but I hope it will receive a warm welcome like the rest! That is about it for now! Hope to talk to you all soon and happy reading! Just wanted to drop in and let you know that the prices for my ebook and physical book have dropped!
Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/Anna-Koski/e/B077X3Y4SS/ The ebook is now $2.99. The physical copy is now $11.00. So I hope that this makes someone's day! Hey guys, so this is going to be a long post but there is a lot I need to unpack. I haven’t really updated you guys on how I have been and how things have been going and that was done deliberately. I didn’t want you guys to worry unnecessarily over me or my life so I kept quiet. This also explains my less than stellar response rate on my comments. I apologize greatly for that, I really do but I hope that once this is all out you will have a better understanding as to why.
Since December I have been having headaches that have grown in frequency and severity. These weren’t like my migraines, which are still being managed with my medication along with my depression, they were new. I stopped having headaches about two months after I started my anti-depressants. So the reemergence of them was concerning but I tentatively ignored it but kept an eye on them. Well they got worse and when January came around I started experiencing serious pressure in my head that never went away and midway through the month my vision started to go funny on my right side and I started having issues with my balance as well as my cognitive function, especially around words. As you might tell, that was concerning, so after about a week of experiencing the new symptoms (Just to make sure they were continuous and not a one off thing), I went to the doctor. I explained my symptoms and he grew concerned as well. I completely blame him for putting the thoughts in my head but he sent me for testing to see if I had any masses, lesions, cysts, bleeds, or aneurysms with the stamp semi-urgent. So I had to wait just a little under two weeks to get my scans, which I spent terrified that I was immanently dying because I was bleeding into my brain or that I was going to die due to a brain aneurysm that would burst. As I said, I blame my doctor for putting those thoughts into my head in the first place. I understand that he was just letting me know what the tests were for but when your head is acting strange and you know something isn’t right, well that just means you think of the worst possible scenario and hopelessly play it in your mind again and again until you practically make yourself sick. So I get my scans done, which they reassured me that if anything was immanently wrong that they wouldn’t let me leave the hospital. They did so that meant I wasn’t going to immediately die. So of course my stressed out and anxious mind immediately jumped onto tumors. What if I had one? What if it had been growing insidiously inside me for years? What if it was a cancerous tumor? I was stuck with these thoughts for about a week total. Which I blame my doctor’s office for. They were supposed contact me to let me know when the report was in and did not, so instead of getting a doctor’s appointment last week I had to get one this week. So I had the weekend for my brain to do that anxiety riddled song and dance about asking very ridiculous questions about a tumor that may or may not exist. (If it did I decided I would name it Taba. Why? Because if I could not laugh at the situation, I was going to utterly ball my eyes out.) So that leads us all the way to today. I had my appointment and, take a big deep breath of relief, because my scans were normal and everything was fine. I had no tumors, no masses, no cysts, lesions, bleeds, or aneurysms. Happy day! … But that then leads me to where we are now. We still don’t know what is officially causing my symptoms. At this point, my doctor and I can only play a game of elimination. We have the big and scary options and things out of the way but now we have to try and figure this out. My doctor’s first thought was inflammation. Now that isn’t inflammation in my brain like viral meningitis, so don’t get scared. He thinks it might be that something in my sinuses are causing an unrelenting pressure against the membranes around them. Which, in turn, would cause them to inflame due to irritation and then a domino effect would follow. To conclude, as my doctor said, that I essentially might have a small amount of pressure on my brain and eye due to inflammation of membranes around my sinuses and it is the reason for my symptoms. Does this explain most, if not all of my symptoms? Yes. Do we know for sure that this is the cause? No. As I said, we are playing a game of elimination and we have to push forward and see. He put me on sinus tabs, to help reduce inflammation, if there is any. We shall see in a few days if that helps reduce the symptoms. If it does, then we have found the cause and can treat it, if not we move onto the next idea. So that is where I am currently. I still feel terrible, still have headaches, still have unrelenting pressure, still have vision issues, still have balance and slight cognitive issues. But I don’t have a tumor named Taba, my brain isn’t attempting to act like a fountain, or blow balloons with my blood vessels or white blood cells. I’m safe from the big and scary things and that is enough for me right now. So don’t worry, while my symptoms are still scary for me, I know that I am going to be okay because there isn’t anything wrong with my brain that could seriously impair or hurt me. As I said, that is enough for me at this point. I need to just keep moving forward because things will be better and get better. My new blogsite is now up and running!
annamlkoski.wordpress.com Go there to see some of my weird inner thoughts and listen to me ramble! I have become aware of some issues within the writing sphere about copyright infringement and plagiarism. However my issue isn't what you might think. My issue is that people don't seem to understand what this actually is within fictional writing and are speaking about it as if they do. This is causing serious backlash in a lot of ways. So I am writing this to define what plagiarism and copyright infringement is and perhaps teach something to help us become better educated writers and authors and how we can protect ourselves and our work. So let's begin! First of all, to clear up some misconceptions about copyright. Copyright protects the expression of ideas and not the ideas themselves. So if you write a story and someone takes it word for word and claims it as their own, or takes chunks and uses it in theirs. That is copyright infringement. It doesn't matter if they changed a few things here or there. They still copied your expression of that particular idea. However if someone sees an idea, like let's say a mute and abused omega (just to be REAAAAAAL cliche) in your story and they write that into their book or base a book off of it. That's not infringement. Nor is if you have an Alpha named Damien who is bitter and egotistical in your story and someone writes a bitter and egotistical Alpha named Damien in their story. That is not copyright infringement. Well unless the character's history and current means are word for word like yours, then it is but the same name and similar characteristics is not. Neither are some quotes or sentences. It gets even more away from copyright infringement/plagiarism if the person was not aware that your work existed before they wrote yours. That happens to be a coincidence and you can't claim anything on that regard. Which is explained in depth in numerous places as well. Wattpad's copyright page: Copyright only protects the physical representation of an idea, not the idea itself. Unfortunately, similar plots or story themes may not constitute copyright infringement. If you are unsure of whether a work infringes your copyright, we encourage you to seek professional/legal advice before submitting a notice. https://support.wattpad.com/hc/en-us/articles/204471770-Reporting-Copyright-Infringement Wikipedia: Copyright does not cover ideas and information themselves, only the form or manner in which they are expressed. For example, the copyright to a Mickey Mouse cartoon restricts others from making copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works based on Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of other works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are different enough to not be judged copies of Disney's. Note additionally that Mickey Mouse is not copyrighted because characters cannot be copyrighted; rather, Steamboat Willie is copyrighted and Mickey Mouse, as a character in that copyrighted work, is afforded protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright Copyright House: Copyright doesn't protect: Ideas, methods and systems cannot be protected by copyright. Section 102 (title 17 of the U.S.C.) of the Copyright Act states, “In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work”. To protect an idea, method or system you need to patent it. https://copyrighthouse.co.uk/copyright/what-copyright-doesnt-protect.htm Copyright.gov: What does copyright protect? Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html University pages: In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work. https://ucomm.wsu.edu/what-copyright-does-not-protect/ As authors we need to completely understand our legal standing within copyright and how we can protect ourselves. This includes knowing what infringement is and NOT accusing someone of plagiarism when they haven't done so. So if someone used a similar idea as yours and you publicly call them out and shame them for stealing. They legally didn't steal anything and your accusation is actually defamation and libel. That causes an entire legal mess that is NOT good to deal with cause you can and sometimes will, get sued. or even charged with cyber libel in a criminal court. https://www.newmediarights.org/business_models/artist/what_are_penalties_false_copyright_infringement_claims https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/are-false-accusations-of-copyright-11292/ http://mcgradylaw.ca/Publications/Defamation_paper.htm http://www.legalline.ca/legal-answers/defamation-laws-cyber-libel-and-the-internet/ Now I'm not saying you don't have legal recourse to protect your work because you do, its just that you need to make sure you are 100% correct and proven right with evidence before you can approach this issue. You need to learn how to protect yourself. I'm not shaming people. I'm truly not. I honestly want to educate people because I am seeing so many people accuse others of copying and plagiarism when there isn't any and its hurting the community and writers in general. We are above spreading lies based out of misinformation. We write for a living for goodness sake! We should live and breathe random researching instead of just throwing things out there without any factual basis. We are better than this. Its not enough to feel cheated in some way, its not enough to gather a legion of followers, its not enough to publicly call out the person you are accusing. You need to have undeniable proof that is supplemented by side by side comparisons of both your stories, and legal advice on how to proceed. Many legal sites offer free consultations if you have questions, if you feel someone has taken your writings use these resources and act professionally and maturely. Your actions are a direct reflection on your claim and your case. Please, for the love of all that is holy, educate yourself because right now I feel like this: And that is no bueno.
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