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Hello Willy,

Will you please remove my poem, "A Sand Song", from your online site. It is a work in progress and needs revision.

Incidentially, Ni Deaghain is my name "Dean" translated in into Irish. However I use it in published works as there are just too many Linda Dean's.

Thanks so much Willy. Have a grand day!

Linda Dean

Pleasant enough. In response, I sent her our standard form letter concerning post-submission changes...the one that says it would require a $5 payment via PayPal. Her respnse to this was a little less pleasant.

It you charge authors for removing their writing then you should post that on the website. Had I had read that I would not have shared my work. I have been working in publishing for 35+ years as an Editor and a Publisher. I am very educated on all facets of copyright law, including international and on the internet.

I hold all copyrights on "A Sand Song" and rescind any right to the website "Dreamagic" to display, post or publish my work. If you fail to remove my work immediately I will contact the attorney for my publishing company regarding copyright infringement.

I strongly suggest you contact your attorney so s/he can verify what I say is true.

Holding my poetry hostage to make a buck leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Of course, we clearly state in our submission rules our policy concerning post-submission changes. We also state...and this is a valid contract...that by submitting poetry to the WPC, one agrees to abide by our rules. I responded to this rather threatening email by suggesting, a bit rudely...I do not like to be threatened, especially by idle threats...that she should read these rules, since she obviously had not, even though it is difficult to get to the submission page without first going through the page that lists the rules. Oh, yes, since she is rather forward about listing her credentials, I suggested that her education had left her a little short. Besides, threatening a copyright infringement lawsuit over a five dollar charge seemed a bit over the top, doncha think? Here is her response to that email.

Uneducated? Why not look me up on Facebook? You certainly do not know how to respond to an adult and professional inquiry.

I have taken the liberty of having my data compilations department forward your response to the thousand or so contributors' to the Dreamagic website. You do not present a very sympathetic picture but a very laughable one.

My attorney will be filing a class action lawsuit for the respondents along with a personal lawsuit for international copyright infringement. When we win you will be required to pay all legal costs.

You might also want to start paying for the privilege of posting the authors' works.

Please send me the name, address and contact information of your attorney. It will be more cost effective for you in the long run if we do not have to expend the research efforts. You have 5 business days to comply or we will add punitive damages to the legal complaint.

And just so you know: You misspelled the words tantrum, and yourself, along with displaying more than one grammatical error. Psychological projections of your own lack onto to others claiming they are uneducated are pathetic. Sad really.

Sincerely,

Linda Dean
Editor and Publisher
Seattle City News

Wow! Now she has REALLY got her underwear in a bunch. I suggested she "unbunch" it and simmer down. Class action lawsuit? Forwarding my email to all of our authors? Oh me, oh my. All of this for FIVE LOUSY DOLLARS? She is also really dragging out her credentials at this point. Editor AND publisher? Must be a vanity newspaper. My response to this one was suitably rude, since she was actually beginning to amuse me with her tantrums and antics and I wondered what threat was coming next. She continued...

Also, Willy the brilliant, there is no such word as "unbunch." Perhaps after consulting with an attorney you might want to run out and buy a dictionary. Buy one for Gypsy too! Cutsy names those: Willy and Gypsy. Not to mention, oh so intellectual!

If your attorney is worth his wage he will tell you that it is not too smart to try to pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel. Not only will you be defeated, you will be humiliated.

I fear I couldn't resist making a bit of fun of her at this point. She is SO in need of a session on anger management. Seems to have too much time on her hands as well, since she goes on and on. Here is her latest...and I hope last...effort to intimidate and frighten me. Note that she has engaged an Irish friend as well. Being partly of Irish descent myself (mother was a McLaughlin), I know those Irish folk can be quite feisty. On the other hand, the threats have now become so out of control, the insults so nasty, that I thought I should share them with the world. Since I have been "forbidden" to contact her again...I wonder what if I did, would she then threaten me with a criminal stalking charge? On the other hand, you, dear reader have not been so restricted. Please drop her a line and tell her what you think of her behavior whether or not you agree with her about me. You can reach her at Linda Dean - seattlecitynews@msn.com. Oh, you might say a few words to the thug she enlisted as her accomplice. He can be reached at Liam Meagher - editor_dublinpress@online.ie.

I forbid you from ever contacting me again. You are a filthy mouthed bullying coward. You are a fraud and a cheat. You are blocked from my e-mail address. My attorney will be in touch.

Note: the following emails from her Irish boyfriend were included. Although they are addressed to us, we never actually received them.

Dear Linda,

I am forwarding to you the e-mail I sent to the Neanderthals, the 7thgrade, less than literate drop-outs, if indeed, they attended school at all. Perhaps we should send the 5 dollars to the old and derelict sods. Andretrieve our beautiful and authentic works from their cheesy website.

Maybe they could spend it for another gallon of Gallo. Is is Gallothe winos drink in America, is it not? I would bet the desperate oldfools even voted, for the other ignorant simpleton, Bush. That is ifthey can read better than they can spell.

At any rate, my colleagues and I had a great laugh at the dinosaurlike dissertation the old drunk tried to give, explaining theintricacies of the internet. I take it you forwarded it to Bill andMelinda for a laugh? Grand idea about forwarding to the the IRS the bragging old Bastard'se-mail. Time for an audit since he's doing so-o-o well. But the verybest news the lower class wimp reported was that he is 72. Not longnow until that piece of lower class trailer trash excrement leaves the earthand we are absent his/her polluted evilness.

Regards, Liam

Followed by:

To whom it may concern: I received a very disturbing forwarded e-mail from an associate ofmine. I am researching the poems you have posted online belonging tomy authors. You are a disgusting and mentally ill person begging for a realitycheck. You are also a thief. You are being sued for Internationalcopyright infringement. This is a crime. In both Ireland and theUnited States. Do not respond to this e-mail. You are blocked. You will be hearingfrom many different attorneys. Imagine being locked up in prison withnothing for company than your deranged mind and vile mouth. A fair andjust outcome.

Sincerely,

Liam Meagher
EditorDublin Press

Seems he has credentials as well. Seems to have trouble separating his words given he claims to be an editor. You can infer from his emails that she and he are conspiring to do me in. Gypsy suggests that I don't aggravate these folks any more, since they might send a hit-man or a leg-breaker to do what their words cannot do, scare me. What do you think? Oh, one more thing. If you do choose to write either or both of these fine upstanding folks, please CC me and Gypsy.

Thanks to all the poets who have made the Web Poetry Corner the success it is. Without you, it would be just-another-nobody-looks-at-Web-site publishing a couple of poems from Paul Larsen, the man who suggested it more than a decade ago.

Cordially,
Willy Chaplin

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