On Friday, May 10, The Guardian reported that a copy of Charlene Harris' final Sookie Stackhouse novel (novels the HBO series True Blood is based on) was leaked online.
I think it's really sad that people do not respect the intellectual property of others and leak it out where it can spread around and deny the author due compensation that he or she deserves.
This one gets worse though. Some of the supposed fans who read that leaked copy unleashed a flood of horrible things. Including death threats and telling the author how they thought she was horrible because she didn't write what they thought she should have written.
Here is the link to the full article - Charlene Harris Threatened.
Let me put this as straight forward as I can. THERE NOTHING ACCEPTABLE ABOUT THAT BEHAVIOR. I don't care if it is just words. IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Is that clear enough? The character's an author creates belong to that author and the author is allowed to do anything at all that he or she wants to do with those characters, no matter what anyone else in the world thinks about it. The character's an author creates do not belong to the readers under any circumstances. If a reader wants characters to behave a certain way - then they should write their own books, but NEVER threaten or harass an author.
I just had to share that. Authors have a passion for writing, and for creating, and very often the direction a story takes can be a surprise to the author too. When I write, I have a base idea of the direction of the story. As I write, I often find that the details take surprising turns as I make my way through the base path in my head.
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