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by June Bennion
20th February 2014

Has anybody experienced authors following them when joining this website?

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Hi June. I agree with the above to a large degree, but there was the case of a famous author who was acting as a judge in a short story competition and later published a collection himself and several of his pieces bore striking resemblances to competition entries which he had dismissed prior to the short list. I believe he was successfully sued.

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Paul Jauregui
21/02/2014

Hi June, may I ask if you have had this experience? if not on this website then maybe on another. Like Adrian I think it unlikely that a successful author would get anything from following people looking for direction in nearly all aspects of the publishing world. Regards Paul.

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Paul Garside
21/02/2014

It's unlikely that authors would follow me or any would-be author. There's nothing for them to gain by doing so.

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