Be Careful!
Be Careful! Bees with honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
Literary Agents are using synopses of aspiring writers, mixing them up a little, using AI to build in the gaps and giving the stories to their pet writers and shark tank writing rooms, then selling them to the likes of Netflix and Marvel.
In Bee My Agent; Blood and Honey- A Hack Writer’s Assimilation, I wrote this plagiarism into the book. I was suspicious of a Literary Agent - who is also a CEO of a major literary agency - but my dreams and hopes of gaining entry into the industry clouded my reasoning. So I protected myself and my work. I also opened a metanarrative with this agent, writing it into the work and predicting this agent would steal my work and synopsis, which I shared only with him. This book was directly written about his theft, but I couldn’t tell him that at the time.
I had a good idea that he had already stolen some of my work, Including Buried at Bedlam: After the Black, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt, and even considered it paying my dues, but he went too far, as abusers always do.
Towards the end of writing Bee My Agent, I attended a writing course filmed by this agent. On the course we were encouraged to share work and ideas. We spoke about the Bee My Agent premise of Perfectionism from the protagonist, Shaun Wojciechowski. In the book, Shaun is an underrepresented and vulnerable, working-class writer with the disability of mental illness, traits which I share. The agent, Malcom Callaghan shares many traits with the agent in question, such as misusing his trust, stealing from synopses, feelings of grandeur, questionable relationships, and insufferable smugness.
Bee My Agent starts with a one-page prologue of Shaun mad at himself and obsessing over a mistake he made in a written message which he sent to the agent. This foreshadows this theme of Perfectionism, which I can’t say too much about because its just the very beginning of the copied work, and it starts in the prologue. I’ve attached the prologue below for you to have a read. I will say that switching honey for cream is such a lame rip-off and so insulting. It shows that the fake writer really didn’t get the work she was stealing.
I really can’t take you through every step yet, because this case is going to be a legal battle. I can only say, that on the course, I made sure not to share the synopsis with the group as I didn’t want them getting any blame and I didn’t want the agent to be gifted plausible deniability. After I didn’t share the synopsis, the course manager then prompted me to share it many times, I never did, I found this telling also.
The other thing about the course which was a little strange was the fact that most of the participants were bots that didn’t participate in the course, and it was really just a few videos with one comment from a young assistant at the end of the course. I did find the pitch week useful, especially the help and input from the few other people on the course. The only feedback I got was, “Preschool sounds American, nursery would be better.” Which was a point already raised by a lady on the course with me.
I shared the synopsis only with one person, the agent in question. I made sure that the agent knew of this by telling him that this was exclusive to him. I can tell you, that I shared several emails, a PowerPoint and a query plus synopsis with this agent. I can tell you that the whole skeleton of the book, has been lifted and reworked with elements of my other works, most notably, Buried at Bedlam: After the Black and Bloodborg: The Harvest novels mixed in, with different characters and names of locations. It’s so blatant that its shameful.
These works have been shared with this agent with trust that he would act professionally and honestly and not in a criminal and abusive manner. What makes this violation much worse is that I write books for a therapeutic and cathartic release, after many traumatic events in my life. Indeed, whilst participating on the online course, I had to leave to travel to London because a military brother had just committed suicide. The Agent knew of my struggles and made a conscious decision to abuse my work. Because of my vulnerabilities, he underestimated my resolve to catch him.
I write very complex emotions and traumas into my books, which have been raped and boiled down to a writer tossing them onto a discussion table, ripping them apart and putting the bits they want into a writing AI tool to produce a book in which the woodenness is palpable, like she (The fake writer) doesn’t even relate to the text and doesn’t understand the severity of what she is writing. It has zero sensibility and emotions, apart from a few cool descriptions of weather, which sound very Me like.
I would have handled this very differently, but when prompted about this, the female writer again quoted my website of where she came up with the idea and hinted that ideas can be copied. She was boorish, and blatant about her theft, without admitting it. She later apologised on a post.
She was correct in her careless and callus remarks, single ideas can not easily be copyrighted. However, whole synopsis, reworked, shared with an agent, and discussed on that agents course platform, is a direct copyright infringement. But really the worst is the mocking tweets. This is a crime, against someone with a disability of the mind, and they mock it. This is psychological abuse.
I will dissect every page and show how my synopsis has been worked into a character story of a global brand, branching into the literary world with a crime series. More some, I believe the disjointed woodenness of the narrative hints at a quick AI writing tool, with masterful editing. I will give her that, the editing job is brilliant and the writing flows excellently. But she has edited my work, with the help of AI.
This isn’t the only infringement, I have proof that a “writer” in the same company as this agent, used my synopsis in a shark tank writers room for an episode of a Netflix show, but that will be investigated also.
I can tell you that Netflix seems to be a place where stolen goods are taken. Perhaps because Netflix doesn’t vet them, perhaps because Netflix pays well, I don’t know. What I do know is that my work as appeared on Netflix a number of times and I’m seeking legal representation in the UK, The US and in France. I don’t blame Netflix or Marvel or any publisher for handling stolen goods, I blame the thieves. However, I would hope that Netflix takes precautions and stops working with these repeat abusers.
I am happy to discuss these copyrights infringements and the smog unprofessional behaviours of these criminals, with Netflix, Marvel, Penguin Random House and all other involved parties and victims.
My speculation of what happened is, a massive brand was branching into the literary world with a crime series. They approached some big agents. Over drinks, the thief in question said something like, “I have a pet writer who can write that for you, and she lies.”
So the branching out company said, “Go ahead, but we need it done on the quicky.”
The female pet writer was out of her depth and sinking, couldn’t make it work, (she has spoken about it not being easy to work with this massive global brand in interviews), so she got a little hot under the collar, had a few too many wines in the hotel room with the agent, with or without clothing and condoms, and he said something like,
“Relax, I have an idea, I’ve got this ambitious dyslexic and mental case young writer with grand ideas of hybrid comic like universes with dark adult literary books and I’m sure we could get away with taking advantage of his work. I’ve stolen bits from his work before and he didn’t complain about it. We’ll print some of his stuff off and sit around the office to see what we can steal. In the meantime, don’t tell my wife.”
Obviously that is a comical enactment of what these two abusers did, however, I bet it isn’t the first time, and I will be investigating her past works of fiction. As for the Agent, I have a few more suspicions which will be investigated. One of which is The Creator film by 20th Century Studios, which is awfully alike a mini synopsis I shared with an agent of the same company.
For now, I’ve informed Netflix of one case, and I will inform them of others. I’ve informed Penguin Random House, the pet Writer and the Agent. I am willing to come to early settlements, so long as they don’t play dumb and don’t try to lie to me anymore. If they make it arduous work and stressful for me, I’ll be making this case the biggest scandal the literary and film industries have ever seen.
Serious commercial copyright infringements can constitute a criminal offence in the UK of up to 10 years imprisonment. I’ll be asking for the maximum because of the Anti-Competitive Behaviours, Market Manipulation, Barrier to Entry, Impact on other Aspiring Writers, Abuse of Power and Legal Protections abused, namely Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1989, which protect individuals against discrimination and psychological abuse. I’ll also be asking for substantial compensation and damages arising from the broader consequences and difficulties caused by these cases.
The smug agent, is probably laughing, sharing some meme about how he’s better and more enlightened then us, or about his fake pseudo moralistic stances, which are skin thin. He is probably thinking he is untouchable because he is a CEO. If so, He hasn’t been listening to a word I’ve said, and he deserves a rotting cell.
If you are mentioned in this article and want me to take it down, or to remove your company name from it, great, show me the evidence that you have taken steps to amend these crimes and I’ll work with you to right the wrongs in low key settings. Hell, I’ll even discuss written projects you might like to look at. Or I’ll commission work for you, without any theft. 6 months and I’ll have film, show or books ready to be green lighted.
If you are one of the abusers, don’t take this message lightly. Don’t think you can roll me. It will only lead to further complications.
Your Sincerely,
M.W. Wolf Ltd
Check out my website, and the M.W. Wolf Megaverse of Fiction for more awesome stories which you don’t have to steal because you can just contact me, via the website, and cut out the smug criminal.
https://www.mwwolf-fiction.co.uk/
PROLOGUE OF BEE MY AGENT
Dear Malcom Callaghan of Callaghan & Milson Agency,
I’ll be your honeysuckle if you’ll be my honeybee!
That’s how I got myself into this sticky mess… one bastard sentence, closed with one bothersome exclamation mark! “I’ll be your honeysuckle if you’ll be my honeybee!” How sickly. Everyone in my creative writing class said never to use exclamation marks. Why didn’t I just listen to my peers?
Because I thought I knew better, that’s why. I did a Winnie the Pooh bear; my head was stuck up in the honey pot. Oh bother! Even old Mark Twain warned of using them. Twain reportedly once said that using exclamation marks in writing is like laughing at your own jokes. But I just gone and did it, didn’t I! Anyway, laughing at your own jokes is absolutely necessary if you’re as lonely and desperate as I was when I wrote that damning sentence. But still, I get it, really I do. No excuse for that sinful exclamation mark!
I mean the sentence is creepy enough alone without making it jump out at the agent. I did, however, eventually “get” my agent, I got him good, but not in the conventional sense! You’ll not see me doing one of those cringy “How I got my agent” YouTube videos. Allow me to explain and I promise not to use anymore grotesque exclamation marks!
This is my “how I got my agent” confession story. How I came to be the new me.
