Happy New Year!

In my search for "Happy New Year" look who showed up! I don't see where he fits the search words but, he makes me happy and it's New Year's Eve so, from Madeline Moore to everyone out there, my extra special Happy New Year pic:

xoxo Mad

Merry Merry and Happy Happy

'Tis the season when even the grumpiest blogger must bow to the pressure of the masses and say, "Merry Christmas" or at least "Happy Holidays."

Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays!

And Happy New Year, too.

I should post a picture of something festive here but instead I will direct you to the brilliant Mil Millington's Xmas card. He wrote the hilarious book Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About and his Christmas card is much funnier than anything I can come up with at the mo.

Hey, I've got stuff to do, man!

Enjoy the funny read and pretend I wrote it but don't pretend I plagiarised it. Or you can just accept that he wrote it and I sent you a link. Either way, my gift to all of you:

Mil Millington's 2011 Xmas Card


Peace, people! I mean, honestly . . .

xoxo Madeline

My Car and Me - A short short silly silly story

I was hanging out at Kristina Wright's blog admiring her babies and her work ethic, not necessarily in that order, and I realized I missed blogging. So here I am!

Hmm. A few moments have passed while I tried to think of what to write about.

Well, this week I had to purchase a new muffler for my car. No, you silly Brits, I don't mean one of these:

Such a beautiful painting by Kristin Kemper which you can buy here

and I'm not talking about the brolly, either, as you Brits call an umbrella, or in this case three umbrellas from
playle.com:

So we're perfectly clear, now, that I'm not talking about this, which I would have been much happier purchasing:

Correct?


I'm talking about this stupid, expensive ugly essential thing:

which you may purchase here

It ate up all my earnings for a week of tutoring writing students.

This blog has already made me remember why I took a break from the blog.

Here, this helps:

You can see more of the same here

So I was pretty grumpy about spending money on car parts until I got home and found this in my trunk:

And then I felt much better.

The End

xoxo Madeline Moore

My Trophy is Here!

What a beauty! I won this amazing award, hand-crafted in Brazil, for my story "Get Up, Stand Up!" which appeared in the Logical Lust e-book and book The Cougar Book, edited by Jolie du Pre.

Thanks to Kristina Lloyd for representing me at the "Night of the Senses" Awards Ceremony. Thanks to Tuppy Owens and the many other folks who made the event a wild and wonderful and weird celebration of S-E-X.

This event supports the charity "Outsiders"

Outsiders is a unique charity which provides:-

• a private and safe club for physically and socially disabled people where they can gain confidence and support each other in their journey enjoy sex and find a partner. The Club is a microcosm of acceptance in a hostile world.

• the Sex and Disability Helpline which is free to callers and people who email from all over the world.globe.

• The Sexual Health and Disability Alliance for health professionals to support each other and learn more about sexuality and disability

• campaigns and projects to improve the personal lives of disabled people and improve their acceptance as sexual partners

Outsiders was founded in 1979 by Dr Tuppy Owens who is also the promoter of The Night of the Senses. It is a registered charity No 283350.

Hurrah for Tuppy and the Outsiders and The Night of the Senses and Kristina Lloyd.

Hurrah for my very own flying penis.

xoxo Mad

Plagiarism and Bella0Rose

I am a professional writer with more than one deadline to meet. I also lead a full, enjoyable life with Felix Baron: writer, lover, and friend.

When I was alerted to the fact that my story “Be A Door,” which is presently to be found on page two of “What’s New” on the literary erotica site Oysters and Chocolate had been appropriated by someone named Bella0Rose I joined Fetlife.com to investigate.

Sure enough, my story, now titled “Door” and the name of one character changed, was boldly listed under “Writing.” To add to the sting, she responded to the positive comments she received from admirers of the tale thusly:

thank you i did enjoy writing it .. it is from some experiences and a bit of fantasy mixed in with the story.

I have a contract with Oysters and Chocolate that agrees not to publish the story anywhere else for a period of time. Even if Bella had republished the story, crediting me and Oysters and Chocolate, she would have been in violation of my contract.

But that isn’t what she did. She plagiarised my story.

I alerted Fetlife.com and Oysters and Chocolate.

I created groups to discourage Bella0rose and other plagiarists like her (as it turns out most if not all of ‘her’ writing is plagiarised from another source) from cutting and pasting the work of real writers onto their sites.

Real writers get paid for using words in a way that captures the imagination, awakens the senses and impacts on readers. It’s hard work.

Cutting and pasting is something any child can do.

I asked Bella0rose for a public apology. Instead I’ve had 3 private apologies. None of them admits that she stole my story. She continues to insist that it was not her intention to plagiarise me.

Here are the apologies:

1) I would like to send my apology to you if my story is like yours. It was not my intention to take your story and make it my writing. Please accept my apology, I am sorry.

2) I am truly sorry as I was not trying to use your work and I was not intending to plagiarize your work. When I put the story on my profile I did not put where I had found the story or the author and I did not state that I changed a character’s name that is where my mistake lies and for this I am truly sorry.
I have corrected my mistakes and again I do apologize.

3) I again state that I am sorry for not referencing you and where I saw the story, I made a mistake. I took down the story immediately. This is my 3rd apology to you I can do no more or less but to keep saying I am sorry.

If by “immediately” she means once she’d been caught, well, that much is true.


I realize that for some people, their on-line life is the only real life they have. I don’t want to get her kicked off this site. I don’t care about her one way or the other. What I care about is my work.

All three apologies do not address these questions:

If you didn’t intend to plagiarise my story why did you change the title and the name of a character?

If you didn’t intend to plagiarize my story why did you accept the compliments you received on its quality by replying, “thank you i did enjoy writing it .. it is from some experiences and a bit of fantasy mixed in with the story.’

It seems that it isn’t possible to get through to her. She is in the wrong but she continues, in my opinion, to deny it.

Here is what my colleagues and I do when we read a story we really like:

We post on our blogs or on facebook: Wow. Shar Azade (for example) has written an amazing story. It gave me shivers – in a good way. Read it here: link.

We don’t show our enthusiasm for each other’s work by cutting and pasting it onto our own sites and giving it a new name. That is not admiration for another person’s work.
It is plagiarism.

Plagiarism is against the law.

I’ve yet to receive a public apology from Bella0rose and when/if I do, it will be this blather about not intending to steal the story. That’s not an apology. It’s a lie.

As a professional writer, I can’t keep explaining this to Bella0rose. I have work to do.
All I can say is that she should be heartily ashamed of herself. She is a thief. There are laws against what she did.

The next time Bella0rose hears from me, it will be through my publishers or my lawyer.