Author's Note: Yesterday someone tried to pass my writing off as their own.

(apologies for my language but I am still quite angry and hurt about it. It is a HORRIBLE feeling to have something so important to me stolen and trampled all over. I feel violated to put it simply.)

They added a bit (90% of it was my writing) of their own shitty writing to my work, changed "Mac" to "Daryl", AND THEN submitted it to an innocent story blog on Tumblr, specifically asking for their user name not to be included in the post. Once the story blog gave me the username so I could inform other writers of what they're doing the coward deleted their blog.

I've added links to my author's section that lead to the posts on my personal blog which contain all the evidence and the name of the guilty blog.

A WARNING TO MY READERS: If I ever see a single line of my writing used anywhere again I will stop writing publicly. I am not letting it get me down this time because I really don't want the rest of my respectful readers to suffer because of one asshole.

But I will not put myself through this a third time if it happens again.

A WARNING TO ALL REEDUS WRITERS: In light of posting a very angry author's note to the story that the content was stolen from, I have been informed by a fellow writer that many other writers in the Reedus fandom have had their work stolen recently. All with the same 'delete and disappear' scenario.

And Tumblr's staff has informed me there's nothing they can do about it since the submitter blog deleted itself and the innocent blog respectfully deleted the stolen content right away. So this asshole just gets away with it.

This person will most likely make a new blog, steal more writing, and submit it as their own to another innocent fic blog.

Look out for writing you recognize and if possible inform the rightful owner.

AN APOLOGY TO MY READERS: I normally never post author's notes without a chapter attached. I am sorry. But I needed you all to be aware. I am also sorry for the multiple false update emails to those who are subscribed to multiple stories of mine.

This author's note will be deleted and added to the original chapter of each story once the next chapter is ready to be posted.

Thank you guys for reading and respectfully enjoying my work!