Nora Roberts actually commented and supported the Smart Bitches, whereas Jennifer Crusie is handwringing at the "bashing," despite agreeing that Cassie Edwards should, indeed, go down for plagiarism.
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Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2008 12:28:55 pm PST #4620 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Toddson - Jan 08, 2008 12:34:12 pm PST #4621 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It won't be quite as much of a fuss as the Dailey/Roberts thing because she lifted factual passages, with some minimal rephrasing, rather than pretty much an entire book.
And I think Jennifer Crusie's comment was more to the point of they have been bashing Edwards for quite some time for bad writing (it was something along the lines of "did Cassie Edwards run over your dog?").
Still ... ferrets?
Amy - Jan 08, 2008 12:34:46 pm PST #4622 of 28342
Because books.
Go P-C, keeping up with the Bitches!
I have no idea if Edwards truly plagiarized, although the evidence looks pretty damning, but the whole thing is just so sad and distasteful. It's like a junior high schooler who doesn't know she can't quote sources verbatim in her research paper.
She wrote a few books for Kensington under our Zebra imprint, and we used to shamelessly mock her, after the fact (i.e. when the editor who acquired her books was long gone). Desire's Blossom was the one we used to mock most -- the Smart Bitches review of it is here, and it's pricelessly snarky. Her books were everything that made romance mockable.
Toddson - Jan 08, 2008 12:37:37 pm PST #4623 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Amy - I haven't read any of her books ... are they the sort that make you wish for the quality and class of "Big Spankable Asses"?
Kathy A - Jan 08, 2008 12:41:55 pm PST #4624 of 28342
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Ooh, Kensington. Aren't they the ones who have shut Dara Joy down because she broke her contract and wrote an SF romance for another publisher?
Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2008 12:45:04 pm PST #4625 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And I think Jennifer Crusie's comment was more to the point of they have been bashing Edwards for quite some time for bad writing (it was something along the lines of "did Cassie Edwards run over your dog?")
Right, but then one of the Bitches did a search to show that they A) don't mention Cassie Edwards all that often (proportionally) and B) actually focus on her even less.
Go P-C, keeping up with the Bitches!
Or keeping up with Cleolinda and therefore F_W. Although I first saw it linked by 'Suela.
brenda m - Jan 08, 2008 12:53:44 pm PST #4626 of 28342
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Amy - I haven't read any of her books ... are they the sort that make you wish for the quality and class of "Big Spankable Asses"?
Pretty much, IME. At any rate, I don't recall the raunch level, but general quality-wise, they really are bad. Or so I remember from a gazillion years ago - how long has she been putting these out?
Toddson - Jan 08, 2008 12:56:41 pm PST #4627 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Someone said she'd written 100 books ... possibly an exaggeration.
Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2008 12:57:31 pm PST #4628 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Toddson - Jan 08, 2008 12:58:37 pm PST #4629 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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