Robin York didn't plan to release her novel "Deeper" one week after revenge porn king Hunter Moore was arrested by FBI officials in Sacramento, California. But she's glad she did -- and she hopes both her book and Moore's arrest will help move the conversation forward about a practice that's still not wholly looked on as a crime.

"Deeper" is York's debut New Adult novel -- a genre catering toward those in college and in their mid-20s. (She's also a best-selling romance novelist under the name Ruthie Knox). The book centers around college student Caroline Piasecki, and how her world is turned all akimbo when racy photos of her end up online after breaking up with her boyfriend.

If the whispers of her classmates aren't enough, Caroline is also plagued by internal mutterings -- the imagined voices of those anonymous men on the Web telling her that her newfound public embarrassment is all her fault.

That self-blame was something York really wanted to highlight in "Deeper," as it was the aspect of the whole revenge porn debacle that she found most disturbing.

"I read a couple of articles about revenge porn and it wasn't so much the content of the articles that struck me as it was the comments on the articles, which some of them were supportive, but so many of them were just viciously victim-blaming," York told MTV News. "I wanted to write about a character who was struggling with something that really attacked her selfhood and her sense of self-worth. This just seemed like a way to get at that, but also gave me an outlet for all my anger about these comments -- the prevalent attitude that revenge porn is really the victim's fault."

While researching the book, York not only read up about revenge porn, but also talked to a cadre of college-aged students. They, too, seemed to tend toward self-blame when asked to imagine themselves in Caroline's situation.

"Even these women that were very, very bright young women that were going to the best colleges -- they're still saying, 'Well, I would feel like it's my fault. I shouldn't have done it,'" York said. "They were also telling me that this isn't really something that they learning anything about, like in orientation. They're not being educated about it, except the same education that we see about Internet interactions more broadly, which is: 'Be so careful what you do.' "

York thinks that the "just be careful" credo is a dangerous message to disseminate in a lot of ways because "it sets you up to believe that whatever happens next is your fault." She wants to, rather, put the blame on the people passing around these images.

Moore's arrest should go a ways, she thinks, toward cementing that blame. Still, there's a lot to be done. Although Moore was the proprietor of infamous revenge porn hub Is Anyone Up -- and has been dubbed "The Most Hated Man On The Internet" by Rolling Stone -- he was not arrested for revenge porn itself.

Instead, according to Time, Moore's 15-count indictment deals with how he paid accomplice Charles "Gary" Evens to hack into users' computers and steal naked photos -- the photos Moore displayed on his site.

His charges? One count of conspiracy, seven counts unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information and seven counts of aggravated identity theft.

Revenge porn, at the moment, is not a federal crime, although some states are working on laws to prevent it. California, where Moore was arrested, became the second state to pass such a law at the tail-end of 2013, after New Jersey.

York thinks California's newly minted law -- and Moore's arrest -- is a step in the right direction. "I hope that it's something that just through the course of his trial -- and hopefully punishment -- that it will get continuing coverage and it will help to [push] the issue more," she said. "I think we're right on the cusp of that, anyway. I live in Wisconsin and the state senate is looking at a bill this month, hopefully. I'm hoping that Moore will raise the profile of all that."

When it comes to her book, York says, "My hope is that it introduces readers who might not have given this a lot of thought -- or readers who already know what they believe about revenge porn -- introduces them to this character's perspective and allows them to understand that being a target of a revenge porn attack is a form of sexual harassment and it's extremely damaging. The focus when we're talking about revenge porn should really be on the person who did it."

"Deeper" is out now via Random House.