The Real Deal

Hello dear friends and readers, 

It was brought to my attention today that an unscrupulous person is posting on Twitter, promoting a download link for a PDF e-reader copy of my 'Spirits of Nature: Shamanic Coloring Book'.

{In fact her whole Twitter feed is bursting at the seams with rip-offs of other peoples books}. So sad.  

Please don't settle for anything less than The Real Deal... 

I find it really sad when people do that, instead of creating something uniquely their own, the best they think they can do is to steal and market other peoples art like it's theirs. 

It was definitely a strange moment having to sign in to Twitter, {a social network I don't use and don't actually want anything to do with}, just to try to deal with this intellectual property theft. A bit like the archetypal Hero's Journey, where the initiate has to crawl down into the belly of the Ugliator Monster to face and deal with the challenge it presents. Sometimes you've got to go in deeper, to get out... You've got to get closer to the fire, to put it out, as they say.

I reported the post and the poster's account to Twitter.  True to their reputation as being the lowest-common-denominator, nasty underbelly sewage-pond of the internet world (with no-ethics-to-speak-of) they weren't at all interested. They couldn't see an issue and they continue to enable and allow this sort of behavior to go on unchallenged on their platform.  

From an energetic standpoint, counterfeits rarely look or feel like the real thing. The integrity has been compromised. And it's not only bad Karma, but it's illegal to steal another persons intellectual property.   

Here is my response to the @winfacli Twitter post:

** Polite Public Service Announcement** 

I'm sorry but I cannot guarantee the quality of what you might be getting if you put your credit card details in to the linked site via that Twitter post to get this 'Download' they offer... it may be just a part of my book, or it might not even be my book at all...

Here's a link to my website page for my real book... http://catherineathenalouise.com/spirits-of-nature-shamanic-coloring-book -- showing a couple of the pages inside and some of the lovely reviews readers (and colorers) have given. 

And here is the link on Amazon to get the genuine article... https://amzn.to/2RkNj7y

Thank you for supporting handmade, artisan books and the hours of work that goes into making them. 

Love and Blessings, 

Catherine Athena x