Scunnert

There's a new word for some of you; to find out what it means then read on. On Saturday night I was driving my cab in Elgin (yes I still get out there) and a young lad pointed to the pictures on the dashboard(check out J W Murison on Facebook photos)and pointed to one of the cards I have displayed there. 'Oh The Kilted Cowboy,' he spouted, 'I got a copy of that for free.' Of course I was immediately on high alert and asked him where he got a free copy of my book from. He realised who he was actually talking to and clammed up. He became very evasive eventually mumbling something about Google. The following day I Googled The Kilted Cowboy and sure enough there were free electronic copy's in any damn format you wanted, there was even a review! Stunned I tried to download a copy; to my surprise it wouldn't let me. Oh no, to get a free copy of my book you had to pay them $30 dollars and then pay a monthly subscription. WTF! Who the hell are these people? I hold all the copyrights to my books, no one else, they haven't asked me if they can sell copy's of it, where the hell are my royalties? These were just some of the questions I posed to the company in an Email. Of course I received no answer from the grinning fat thieving bastard, who is more than likely sitting on Malibu beach right now with a piña colada in his hand while some hottie plays pogo on his tiny stick. God it makes me mad. Here I am a struggling author with my feet barely out the gate, working seventy hours a week just to keep a roof over my head and some fat thieving bastard is already stealing my work!!!! It makes me so bloody mad. As for the fellow who tried to cheer me up by saying 'At least the book is good enough to steal.' You're going to end up a pedo in a future novel somewhere. Its not that I don't appreciate your thoughts in this matter but this isn't a Gnome some thieving little shit nicked from the bottom of your garden. This is an accumulation of hundreds if not thousands of hours work; not to mention the time and money spent on the novel; money I will never recoup if some arsehole con-men are giving it away for free allover the world. As for Alice who left a memorable review for the book 'Oh thank you for this book it was awesome.' No Alice don't thank them, thank me, they never wrote the bloody book I did, they only stole it. I certainly hope you are getting your moneys worth from the subscription though. Of course you could have saved yourself a shitload of cash if you had bought the book straight from Amazon.com after all it is only a single dollar to buy in kindle form. Ach well I suppose you all know the meaning of the word scunner and scunnert now. The Kilted Cowboy