I wrote and illustrated the Emma Portal story “Roman a Clef” last December and posted it today. This March Amazon released a First Read Kindle novel by Zibby Owens called “Blank.” The plot involves a young writer who, after having a successful first novel, is suffering from writer’s block, but she gets an idea for a new novel, and begins writing it. She’s well into the project when someone else publishes a novel with essentially the same plot. She’s under pressure to produce a new novel, and as a last resort proposes a book that is nothing but blank pages. Who would buy such a book? Is it possible Zibby somehow had access to my Microsoft account and stole the idea? I like to think that Zibby is colluding with Emma.