Every author or blogger’s or photographer’s dream. The success story behind Linda Ellis over one poem is where dreams are made. When Every Author’s Dream Becomes Everyone’s Potential Nightmare It’s all in what they do, how they use it, and how they treat others. I am sure that all religions have their own commentary about money and greed. “The love of money is the root of all evil” 1 Timothy 6:10. Nobody can serve both God and mammon - Matthew 6:24 (paraphrased). She doesn’t serve God, she serves mammon. Her credibility is gone as far as I am concerned. Now this is not a post about religion, but the general public holds people with that profession of faith to a higher standard (or did?). But I will tell you that this sweet GA peach is rotten to the core. I live further south than Marietta, so that goodness she’s not near me. Georgia is my home state by the way, so what I will be writing about today is embarrassing to me as an author and as a Georgian. Linda Ellis is the author of the inspirational poem “The Dash”, owner of Linda’s Lyrics LLC, and the trademarked phrase “Live Your Dash”. I have so much info from research it is running out of my ears about the trolls, my individual situation, articles, commentary, and the works. I will be writing a series on my blog Newbie Author’s Guide about these topics in great detail, and I will write about the two trolls I am dealing with here on this blog and an introduction to what how these schemes work before that. ![]() I’ve dealt with bullying all my life and I won’t stay silent about it so others can get screwed. People have been scared into shutting up. The silence, unawareness, and sheer ignorance of people on various sides are the reasons why some of the schemes have perpetuated as long as they have (nearly a decade for some) and has continued to grow. I will be going public about this as the trolls don’t like being called for what they are and don’t want anyone talking about their bullying tactics, and they definitely don’t want their schemes being made public. But I didn’t, and I found fatal errors in his case so it would have a high chance of being thrown out should it ever go there. One troll has a totally bogus case, and the other went totally overboard and accused me of things that I never did–and if I would have been stupid enough to ACTUALLY do the things he accused me of, then I would be a complete idiot and deserved whatever was coming to me. So it’s time for a public awareness alert since the schemes are still prevailing and I had never heard of them until I got sucked in–twice. ![]() However, they sometimes get it right as you will see coming up. Sometimes the artists themselves are the perpetrators and use tactics to deceive and entrap people so they can allege they committed copyright infringement and collect money. Both artists and the general public are being harmed in these schemes. They are in it for the money and don’t give a frickin’ frack about protecting copyright interests of artists or the rights of the public. Copyright trolls will target anyone whether or not they follow the law or respect the works of others. ![]() I no way in any shape or form support copyright infringement of any kind since I am also an artist and a creator of intellectual property and try my best to respect the work of others, but that in itself doesn’t keep me or anyone safe from copyright trolls. I do my very best to try and follow copyright laws the very best that I can as most people do. ![]() I never had a problem before–ever–and I have been blogging for almost 5 years and I have written a lot of content. But I do have firsthand experience dealing with these types of schemes since I have been hit twice on two different websites I own by two different copyright trolls THIS YEAR. I came to know about copyright trolling and extortion schemes on another issue and do not have firsthand knowledge of dealing with those issues with that poem. The poem and the aforementioned topics are intertwined, and it not the worst that it gets. I may have heard of it spoken of in another book but I can’t remember which.Ĭonsidering the prevalence of the poem, I haven’t heard of it before until I began researching other unrelated topics: copyright trolling scams and extortion. I haven’t heard anyone talk about it in the author world, but if it has been spoken of, it’s not in the circles I am in since I am a YA fiction author and occasional nonfic, but not a poet. If not, it is supposed to be an inspirational poem about the dash on a headstone that goes between the dates of birth and death and what people choose to put there is up to them. Has anyone ever heard of the poem “The Dash” by Linda Ellis? No, it has nothing to do with The Incredibles character (that’s what came to mind for me or something related to the Flash). Linda Ellis at her Best (or worst) Image Credit: Robert Krausankas
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