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Stealing My Heart
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A Total-E-Bound Publication
www.total-e-bound.com
Stealing My Heart Anthology
ISBN # 978-0-85715-048-6
Stolen Memories ©Copyright Carol Lynne 2010
Stealing Rain ©Copyright D.J. Manly and A.J. Llewellyn 2010
Hotwired Heart ©Copyright Jaime Samms 2010
The Magic Thieves ©Copyright Serena Yates 2010
Stealing Michael ©Copyright Jambrea Jo Jones 2010
Dragon’s Eye ©Copyright Stephani Hecht 2010
Cover Art by Natalie winters ©Copyright March 2010
Edited by Claire Siemaszkiewicz
Total-E-Bound Publishing
This is a work of fiction. All characters, places and events are from the author’s imagination
and should not be confused with fact. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, events or
places is purely coincidental.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form,
whether by printing, photocopying, scanning or otherwise without the written permission of
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Publishing. Unauthorised or restricted acts in relation to this publication may result in civil
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The author and illustrator have asserted their respective rights under the Copyright Designs
and Patents Acts 1988 (as amended) to be identified as the author of this book and illustrator
of the artwork.
Published in 2010 by Total-E-Bound Publishing Think Tank, Ruston Way, Lincoln, LN6 7FL,
United Kingdom.
Warning: This book contains sexually explicit content which is only suitable for mature
readers. This story has been rated Total-e-burning.
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STEALING MY HEART ANTHOLOGY
Stolen Memories
Carol Lynne
Stealing Rain
D.J. Manly and A.J. Llewellyn
Hotwired Heart
Jaime Samms
The Magic Thieves
Serena Yates
Stealing Michael
Jambrea Jo Jones
Dragon’s Eye
Stephani Hecht
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Foreword:
First of all, we’d like to thank you for your purchase of this anthology. The proceeds will go
towards the purchase of advertisement against the illegal downloading of copyrighted
materials, specifically, electronic books.
Writing is a craft which demands a great deal from its practitioner. It is often a painstaking
effort carried out in solitude.
Authors don’t count their hours, like in other kinds of labour, for if we calculated our salary
per hour, we’d probably fall into a depression, but even that would never be enough to make
us stop writing.
Writers have a compulsion to write. We are artists, like any painter or sculptor, we need to
create.
When someone reads a book and enjoys it, they probably don’t think much about the
process, and they’re not supposed to. The best books are those that appear as if they wrote
themselves.
But they don’t.
There is a living, breathing person behind that book. And that person needs to eat and pay
their bills, as unglamorous as that may sound.
Each time someone illegally downloads a copyrighted book, they affect an author’s salary.
That means the author, readers love to read so much, that author who takes them away from
their everyday lives and gives them those moments just to escape, may be struggling
financially. Illegal downloading meant that the author’s work is being stolen, passed from
reader to reader without the author ever seeing a cent of royalties from those downloads.
I’ve heard all the arguments for illegal downloading; including everything on the internet is
there for the taking, and it should be free to use. But that’s just not true. The internet is a
marketplace. It’s the place you can go to purchase what you want. You may have it delivered
directly to your doorstep, like something off eBay; or delivered to your personal computer,
like a book or a software program. If something is offered for free, it’s free. But if something
wears a price tag, it means it’s for sale, like any book in a physical bookstore. It also means
that there are people expecting to receive payment for that book: the publisher who keeps the
website where the books are stored, the editor who makes the copy clean, the artist who
contributes to the cover, and the author who created the work.
How many times have you passed along a paperback you have purchased? We all do it,
without giving it a thought. But there is a difference between lending your novel to your
mother, and downloading copies of an eBook for free to post it online so that countless others
can download it as well, sometimes thousands of people within days.
Some argue that maybe illegal downloaders can’t afford to buy a book, or they represent the
ones who wouldn’t buy an eBook anyway. I figure if a person has enough money for a
computer, and the internet, that person can afford to pay for an eBook. And it’s not at all fair
to the readers that take money out of their pocket and pay for their books. Should we reward
those who steal a book by letting them get away with it, while penalizing those readers who
are honest and respect authors? If you knew that you could shoplift in one store and get
away with it, would it make sense to shop at the store across the street where you had to
pay? If we don’t take a stand against illegal downloading of eBooks, there will not be any
new books published to download, illegal or otherwise. eBook publishing is a business. It’s
not a charity.
Electronic books are the future. A great many of us writing in the industry today started
writing eBooks when people scoffed at the idea. No one would buy these books! Well, people
aren’t laughing anymore. Even the major book publishers are now investing in the eBook
industry. Big name writers are jumping on the bandwagon. Ebooks are profitable,
environmentally responsible, and economical for the reader. And the industry will continue
to grow. eBook sales are already surpassing print sales. Laws will become stricter, and
eventually illegal downloading will be more difficult to accomplish. It has already started.
People have been fined, closed down, and cut off from the internet for copyright theft.
Illegal downloading sites are now scrambling their files, naming them different things,
making it difficult for authors to find their books and demand they be taken down. If you
need assurance that these people are doing something illegal, their actions to hide their
activity speaks volumes.
If you as a reader truly love an author, if you get enjoyment from that author’s work, and
look forward to the next book, then fight illegal downloading wherever you see it. If a writer
isn’t making enough money to pay the bills, they will have to take on more unrelated work.
That unrelated work takes the writer away from their craft, which means the author you love
so much may no longer have enough time to do what you want them to do; write.
I hope you enjoy this anthology. It is a labour of love, and of hope. We hope that readers
respect writers enough to keep them writing. Unlike illegal downloaders, we’re not asking
for anything for free, we’re only asking for what we’re due.
Thank you.
D.J. Manly (on behalf of Authors Against Copyright Theft)

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