>>Isn't she awful? But women keep buying her books. That's how it goes. My agent is a bestselling Romance writer. She knows how to write what sells. I am a Mainstream/Literary writer, which means my books are hard as hell to sell. But a really good literary novel will outsell a lot of the other genres if you are lucky.
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>I've come to the conclusion that nowadays there are only two kinds of publishing: Daniele Steel and vanity press. And I've gladly put my stuff into the latter category, with zero advertising, no paper... on the Lulu :).
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>Just in case it happens again that I cannot prove being the first with an idea. I'm a bit blurry with the dates so I can't seriously claim that someone stole my stuff... but then I also don't care if it never happens again either.

The problem is, if an author writes something similar but has never visited lulu, they will never know you think they stole your stuff! :o) I've only visited it once courtesy of you. It looked like an interesting site and I meant to return and read, but never got around to it...