I’m not a lawyer in real life. I do play one online so this means I know everything, and I’m always right. I’m going to attempt to make sense of all of this cockamamie issues of trademark and half-cocked lawsuit. If you’re an author and you haven’t heard of #cockygate then you need to examine…
A Dick Move: Trademark on “Cocky”
I have been fascinated, amused, worried, and angry over the continuing #cockygate saga. It basically boils down to this: author Faleena Hopkins successfully trademarked the word “cocky”. She has written a series of books (seventeen as of today) that involves a fictional family called the Cocker Brothers. First, let me get this out of the…
Authors Behaving Badly: Terry Goodkind Edition
Like many authors before him, Terry Goodkind found himself in a media sh*t storm of his own making when he posted on his Facebook page that the cover to his latest release Shroud of Eternity is “laughably bad,” and urged his followers to “Tell us what you think of the cover.” Of course, criticisms of…
Teaser Tuesday
ON THE EVE OF LOVE The Unwrapping Love Anthology was officially released yesterday. As of today, the reviews on Goodreads and on Amazon have been positive. I think this reflects the talent of the writers in the anthology, along with the hard word of the people behind it, PageCurl Publishing. The book has twenty-one unique…
