Ages ago I set up some google alerts and then promptly forgot about them.
So imagine my surprise when this month one pings into my inbox with the notification that my works are on another website. I go look and it’s one of those pirate ebook websites.
My short story is printed in its entirety; including my copyright.
It’s one of the free ones, so they aren’t stealing from me. And in any case after years of listening to other authors, there’s not a lot you can do about these pirate sites. They work, and exist, just to collect people’s credit card details. If someone is silly enough to give their details to one of these dodgy sites rather than pay for works from legit sites, that’s their issue, not mine.
Read. Enjoy. All I can hope is that I may gain a fan or three from it.