the romance novel plagiarism that keeps on giving

[cimorene]

Cassie Edwards apparently also plagiarized her author's note and stole from Longfellow, a Pulitzer-winning novel, and the Encyclopedia Britannica.

The author's note, guys. WHAT.

Comments

[brownbetty]

aaaaahaaahaa the more that comes out, the more I want to have a:

Cassie Edwards, a professional author, has generously taken time out of her schedule to better help us understand the tricky ethical concept of 'plagiarism,' and how it differs from 'inspiration.' As a token of thanks, here is a passage of Edwards' writing for you to be inspired by. Prizes will be awarded for those whose inspired works most closely hew to Edwards' words, with special consideration given to greatest number of consecutive words one is inspired by.

[brownbetty]

Of course, the problem being the difficulty of getting a sample of Edwards' books to work from. I wonder if my library has anything of hers?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I'd think they probably would, from what I've been hearing about her sales...