Gertrude,

Forgive me, but if you’re actually an attorney, you’re a lousy one.

1) You nowhere have cited any attorney-client relationship with the publisher and consequent authority to make demands on the publisher’s behalf. Heck, you don’t even identify the publisher by name.

2) You took THREE messages to me to even mention that you wanted me to take the cover down.

3) You’re asking — excuse me, THREATENING — me to take down a blog post from two and a half years ago, with no legal rationale.  My blog post says that the cover in question was to a book that was for sale at Amazon at that time.  Are you saying that my referencing the fact is somehow illegal?

4) There is no such thing as a “fake” or “counterfeit book cover.”  The fact that the publisher of the work that the cover went to was (by your unsupported assertion) not the copyright holder of the book in question, does not give you any right to curtail the display of the cover — which was, by your own statement, NOT part of the copyrighted material in question.

5) Which is it? Are you “Gertrude Silverstein LLP” or “Gertrude Stein Esq.”?  In what state are you admitted to the bar? What attorney uses a gmail account without any sort of email signature for her “official” email?

I think you better try again at this “acting like an attorney” thing, because this attempt was piss-poor.

(BTW, posing as an attorney to make legals demands constitutes “unauthorized practice of law.” That’s a for-real crime, just so you know.)