On Illegal Book Downloads

Question via my contact form on my website:

Lisa G. asked: How do you not lose your cool entirely when you see your book being downloaded for free? All that hard work for nothing, I’d freak out

Sadly, every single traditionally published author has had to go through the experience of seeing links and torrents to free downloads of their books. It’s kind of a rite of passage, really.

At first, my blood boiled every time. The very first one I saw, for my debut novelSkylark, made me cry....