Gene Fournier

The Authors Guild is a plaintiff in the current lawsuit against Meta that’s been going through the courts since 2023. If your books were used by Meta from the LibGen pirated network you will be automatically included in the class action portion.

Sorry! Two of my books, too. It’s so disgusting.

A mere million dollars per copyrighted book holder. That would stop it.

Two of mine, too. I agree. I’d like to see a corporation death penalty.

I signed. They stole two of my books. I favor a corporation death penalty.

The country needs a death penalty for corporations.

Both actions disgust me but trillion dollar Meta stealing my books (yes, they took two of mine, I checked) and feeding them to their pet AI secretly makes me want to demand a corporation death penalty.

While waiting for my editor to get back to me on my new book, I picked back up my old WIP that’s been hanging around for years. I’m editing it again and see hope.

Anybody else have old unfinished manuscripts lying around? Give them another look. You may get surprised. I’m 33k words in and happy!

For me, it's the opening to The Old Man and the Sea.

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

He was nice. Normal? Hard to say. He was at our screening for “Fraternity Row” because his son, Scott Newman, was in it. We had to supply him with a cooler filled with Coors at his seat since that was the only beer he drank. I will say his blue eyes were truly mesmerizing.

I'm waiting for my editor to finish line editing my latest novel, LOST DIARY so I can begin the nightmare of querying. Yes, I've already finished my basic query letter, my synopsis and selected my dream agents from Query Tracker. I know how the next few months will most likely go...

I showed Paul Newman where the men’s bathroom was after a screening. I shared the stall next to him and made some meaningless conversation. He was shooting Slap Shot at the time.

My Newest Novel is Off to My Editor

My newest novel, "Lost Diary," was loved by my beta readers so I sent it off to my editor. She returned it with suggestions. I did a big rewrite and dropped my word count by 2,600 words. What a struggle! On the plus side, I got to remove lots of unneeded words.

Award winning Contemporary Women’s Fiction that you probably missed.