Did Suzanne Schwalb and Peter Pauper Press Rip You Off?

I went to Barnes and Noble today to see if I could find a copy of this awful thing, and there it was, right by the registers. I didn’t want to give my money to rip-off artists, so I took it to the Starbucksoid region in the middle of the store and wrote down* all the names. (It’s a tiny book, so this didn’t take too long.)

Look at this, just look at it:

See that there on the back of the title page? Where it says “© 2010 Peter Pauper Press”? That’s these assholes claiming that they own your words. They have a Twitter account, too, and so does the “author” Suzanne Schwalb. If your name’s on the list below, you might want to send some @-replies their way. At least.

Here, then, are all the people who unknowingly “contributed” to this adventure:

• abigvictory
• adamisacson
• adtothebone
• Agent_M
• Aimee_B_Loved
• AinsleyofAttack
• amazingsoup
• apelad
• awryone
• badbanana
• BadPeggyOlson
• baileygenine
• bcompton
• bliccy
• CathleenRitt
• chumworth
• cleversimon
• cluckcluckers
• darthvader
• DieLaughing
• Edgar_Allan_Poe
• expat_erin
• fireland
• hodgman
• hoosiergirl
• hotdogsladies
• hotheadred
• jaboud
• Jessabelle2o7
• joeschmidt
• joeschmitt
• johncmayer
• JohnRossBowie
• katefeetie
• kitson
• larry_david
• LILWAYNESWORLD
• luckyshirt
• LucyRcardo
• MamitaMojita
• mhawks
• michael_bay
• michaelianblack
• mikedoe
• MODAT
• MRSMOLTZ
• myracles
• nictate
• NOTcwalken
• owenburke
• pagecrusher
• paulfeig
• pheend
• phyllisstein
• robcorddry
• robhuebel
• scottsimpson
• SeoulBrother
• sniffyjenkins
• tehawesome
• texburgher (Back cover)
• TheEllenShow
• tinafey
• trelvix
• zeldman
• zolora

*Typed into a spreadsheet on my iPad. What.