At times my books pop up on various piracy sites. As someone first told me it was honestly kind of exciting – "I've made it! Piracy worthy!" For those who have found themselves in similar situations.. how did you react? #books #writing #piracy

@ruralgloom I've had some short stories that were in collections pirated, and I'm fine with it. I got paid for writing it, I don't have royalty rights, the publisher may be out of business, idr, and in any case it meant that more people maybe read it and enjoyed it, and I put words in people's heads, and how freaking cool is that!

@MissConstrue Yes, that is fun! As an indie author especially Discovery is the tricky part. How do you get your stories to people? I already record things and place on bandcamp, share pieces with lit zines, and submit books/ebooks to regional libraries. Ideally those downloading are in places where buying would not be easy or even possible.

@ruralgloom I've decided that it's not worth worrying about 🙂I don't know if my fiction is there on piracy sites or not, but I do know that my programming books are.

I just decided that it's not worth wondering what to do since then I'd be investing all my energy into that instead of doing the things I enjoy.

@f Yes, another good point. Like the Stoic Fork of Epictetus ­– "Is this something I can control?" I'm not planning to act myself. It does feel like it'd be a lousy new job to scour the internet for links like this. Better things to do!