It's a dirty word, one I hate to to see used, especially via email in my inbox.

But it happens. Too often. But it happens.

With the amount of talent on this tiny little corner of the internet, I thank the skies it doesn't happen too often. But when it does, my heart goes out to authors. Not to sound overly dramatic but, its like seeing your child get kidnapped you know? With the amount of time, care, and yes... even love, that some of the authors here put into their stories, you can surly call them your babies.

Which makes us moderators what? Baby-sitters? Nannies? LOL! Ok let me stop... this isnt funny. It's very serious. My point is, we're family. A community brought together by a common interest. When one of us is wronged, we're all wronged.

In the recent situation that occurred, it was an author on fanfiction.net that wronged us. She took several stories from one of our authors and I believe a few from another one of us, possibly more. She has apologized for the plagiarism and confessed that out of the 43 stories she had posted, she had only written 8.

I repeat, we are a family. I hope you all agree with me on that. If you ever, ever, ever see any story belonging to our community posted on any other site, do not hesitate to contact us.

This situation was resolved in a very non-messy way. It was the offended author's email to the plagiarist that cleared everything up in the end. But its always best to let us know so we too can contact their site moderators as well.

Ok, I think that's all I wanted to say. Hugs and high fives all around for the happy ending. :)