I am currently in the process of weeding my writing portfolio of old tales and pricesless gems. Sadly, the future of my writing online will be slim pickings, as I would love to actually have some of my work published. I can't have it posted here if I plan on doing so. Nevertheless, I will eventually have some work posted here to read. Just keep in touch.

All contents are © Rebecca G. Jones. I handle plagiarism with a loaded gun, so please read this before you think about pulling anything.

    My novel, which is currently going through the editing process. I can't really go into detail with much of the plot, other than this teaser image:

    On Copyrights

    For a general walk-through to copyrights and copyright protection, I suggest that you read the information provided at this website. But for those of you who don't like to read long sectional spans of information, I've provided the "cliffnotes" version below.

    001. MY WORK IS MY BITCH

    As the owner of every portion of this website, including ALL writing, graphical work, etc., I own the copyright to it. This means that I am the only person who can use this work. You are able to read it on this site, and you are able to link to the work as well, but you cannot feature my stories on your website or Facebook profile or whatever it is the kids are up to these days. I wrote it, you didn't. If you want your own copyright, then you can go and write your own poem and then brag to me about how you're the only person that can touch it at night.

    002. CREATIVITY RAPISTS

    If you want to do anything with my work, such as using it for an art project or some doo-dad, you need my permission first. I don't see why you would, as my work isn't exactly insightfully quoteable. However, if you take without my permission, you're violating my rights and raping my beautiful words. Also, copying my work and claiming it as your own is considered PLAGIARISM, which really just means that you're a cheap douche. It doesn't matter if you steal one sentence or my entire portfolio, it's still plagiarism and I am still going to take my billy club like a battle-axe to your sides until you're pissing blood.

    003. HOW I FIND YOU

    A copyright lasts for the life of the author, and then for one plus fifty years after the author dies. So even if I'm dead and you feel like being lousy and you plagiarize my work, my rotting corpse will still haunt you in your wet dreams.

    I use Copyscape to search the Internet for unauthorized copies of my work. So if you have anything of mine lingering around on your website, I will find you. What happens then is I will ask you to take the work down. If you don't do that I will contact your host and inform them of the copyright infringement. And most hosts cringe and get all uneasy about that kind of stuff.

    The Last Word

    There's that fucking idiotic quote about how "there is no better flattery to a writer than someone who steals their work". It's really more of just a rabid pain in the ass. The one time it happened to me, I just fired off an email to the chick's host and her entire site was then removed.

    You only get real joy out of what you do yourself. Even though you might feel good about stealing somebody's writing and getting away with it for a day or two, the fact is that you DIDN'T write it. I have no idea how people get a thrill out of being praised for something they had nothing to do with. It's not as though anyone's going to give you a six-figured giant check for posting some swiped fiction on your website. You too can experience your own joy if you harvest most of your life doing that you find joy in. Unless you're so thrilled by stealing, you klepto.