Posted on 02/13/2023 2:50:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
A romance novelist who once trademarked the word “cocky” was arrested after leading police on a high-speed chase through a Wyoming national park — but has been missing ever since her release from jail.
Faleena Hopkins, 52, was arrested Jan. 27 after leading cops on a 24-mile pursuit through Grand Teton National Park that only ended when officers used spike strips to deflate her tires.
While Hopkins is best known for her raunchy “Cocker brother” romance series that spans 22 titles, she also made national headlines in 2018 when she registered for and received a trademark on the word “cocky.”
The trademark spurred “Cockygate”...where Hopkins started to take action against other authors who wanted to use the word “cocky” in romance novel titles, which caused a huge upheaval in the romance novel industry and caused Hopkins to eventually surrender the trademark registration.
Hopkins’ missing-person profile said she was last seen in Jackson on Jan. 30, the same day she was released from Teton County jail.
“She is a white female, approximately 5’7”, 135 pounds, with green eyes and blond hair,” the DCI’s profile said. “Faleena has an infinity symbol on her left wrist, ‘Follow All Instincts’ on her right wrist, a lion face on her left shoulder and a hummingbird on her right ankle.”
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I recall reading a story where one can commit murder in Yellowstone NP in the sliver that is in Idaho and it is not illegal due to some technicality in the law. No doubt just a rumor, but I’d look there first anyway.
I wonder if she got her car (with the wrecked tires and wheels) before she went missing.
Now that is a blast from FR past!
With the increasing "wokeness" of the publishing industry, e-publishing may be the only way to publish and distribute works that are inadequately woke.
I know of some people who self-publish and promote their work on Twitter with excerpts.
At least high on the crazy axis. I’d need to see a picture for the other axis.
Very high on the crazy scale.
But I hear the chase scene and fugitive narrative of her next novel is going to be amazingly realistic.
The Grand Canyon is very pretty at this time of year.
LOL!
There is still enough actual diversity in the publishing world that if you actually have talent you will find a publishing company who will pick you up.
At the least your stuff will be POD.
Only e-book means you just are not very good.
“...and it is not illegal due to some technicality in the law...”
The wife has been complaining about going on a trip. That sounds like a pleasant area to take the old bag...err...the wife.
Very few left who will get it ...
Not guilty by reason of insanity?
You must be an old-timer around these parts to make that reference.
Real books or ebooks: if its fiction, then any democrat can write a book. They live in make believe most of the time.
I see what you did there...
Those eyes are in the crazy zone. Whatever the true hair color those pics look like a redhead to me. While not a stripper or hairdresser or called Tiffany maybe romance novelist should be added to the danger zone list.
Did she make any enemies in jail?
Fiction must make sense. Even more then real life because the author has complete and total control of the world. You can get away with "and a miracle happened" maybe once depending on what kind of book you are writing.
I was the beta reader on a novel and I sent in a polite suggestion that he shift the location of home base of both the hero and villain, neither which were relevant to the current story, because it would cause trouble down the road. I got a "thank you for your suggestion, now GTH".
He is now in the second book of the series and is running into the problem I predicted.
Fiction readers are tough. Fans are even tougher.
The last fiction book I read was “The Eagle Has Landed”, back around 89 (when I was 35). I had read very few fiction books before that. My father in law liked to buy books at yard sales, but they mostly needed to be WW2 related (he was B24 gunner, DFC, and other awards; considered to have a superhuman aim by his own crewmates).
He rarely read fiction, but picked up TEHL at a sale, to compare it with movie he had seen years before. After reading it myself I had to agree his assessment: spending that much time reading something that is fiction is for other people, not me.
And romance novels? I’d rather rake leaves all day. (But then, my lovely wife has met my romance needs for almost 45 years.)
That is Yellowstone the tv show.
They call it the train station. The Duttons would leave dead bodies there.
Most "non-fiction" is actually fiction.
Anyone who tries to tell you that they can remember exactly what they were thinking, or even more unlikely, what someone else was thinking at a certain point is spinning a tale.
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