I Write My Own Books!

My name is Julia Schmeelk and I write my own books. In the world of Indie Publishing, there seems to be a rash of plagiarism, also an entire culture of people writing for others, collecting a fee per word. (These are called ghost writers and are usually grossly underpaid and under valued) I am not involved in any of that.

For those that wonder how I wrote so many books in such a short time, the answer is that I didn’t. I wrote the NewEarth Series over a period of six years during the summers while I was teaching. I spent the last two years editing, refining and bringing them out. I currently have the first six released. The seventh is with my editor, the eighth is headed that way soon.

I am a strong believer in intellectual property. I own my ideas, my stories and if they are published it should be under my name. A pen name is fine as long as it does not misdirect to cover for theft of a story, or chapters from a book. In this electronic age of cut and paste it takes some work to keep hold of intellectual property, but imagine what it would mean to lose that.