I have no interest in reading Nora Roberts's books, but she sounds pretty damn awesome as a person here.
You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 7:38:05 am PST #4651 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Toddson - Jan 10, 2008 7:46:16 am PST #4652 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Nora Roberts speaks from experience - there was a nasty mess a while ago when another author plagairized one or more of her books. And, yes, a number of other authors as well as fans attached NR for making a fuss.
And I'm STILL boggled by the ferrets.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 7:47:40 am PST #4653 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am just amused that her characters seem to be well versed in obscure wildlife articles, given that they keep quoting them verbatim.
Kathy A - Jan 10, 2008 7:49:00 am PST #4654 of 28342
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
craptastically researched Irish Thoroughbred
That was her first book, IIRC.
Susan W. - Jan 10, 2008 7:50:59 am PST #4655 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
It was Janet Dailey who plagiarized Nora Roberts. It hurt Dailey's career but didn't destroy it. She's still published, but she's not as big of a name as she used to be AFAICT.
JZ - Jan 10, 2008 7:57:57 am PST #4656 of 28342
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I am just amused that her characters seem to be well versed in obscure wildlife articles, given that they keep quoting them verbatim.
Obscure wildlife articles published a century-plus after their own deaths, no less. Truly, her characters are marvels.
I'm boggled both by the CE defenders and by the people saying, "I guess I just don't understand exactly what plagiarism is or how to avoid it." There was even one ten or twenty-post threadlet going on about how it seemed really weird to call it plagiarism since some of the works might have fallen out of copyright so what did it matter anymore? To all of that I have no words, my own or anyone else's, just amazed and outraged sputtering.
Toddson - Jan 10, 2008 7:58:51 am PST #4657 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yes ... and I've sneered at her books every time I see one ever since.
But NR was also hurt - definitely emotionally, possibly financially - by the people who leapt to JD's defense. If I recall correctly, they kept telling her she was being mean ....
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 7:59:08 am PST #4658 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think it would be funny if, in the fantasy future where I am a published author, someone accuses me of stealing all my jokes from some guy named "Polter-Cow" on the Internet.
Miracleman - Jan 10, 2008 8:01:22 am PST #4659 of 28342
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I think it would be funny if, in the fantasy future where I am a published author, someone accuses me of stealing all my jokes from some guy named "Polter-Cow" on the Internet
Oh, don't think we won't. You dead-bovine thief, you.
P.M. Marc - Jan 10, 2008 8:05:14 am PST #4660 of 28342
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
That was her first book, IIRC.
As a racing-mad teen, it made me want to write a long, annoying letter detailing everything she got wrong, which was almost everything.
In that pre-Google era, accurate information on horse racing and breeding rules and regulations was still not hard to come by, drat it!
But I suppose I can forgive her for it. Mebbe.
(Yes, it is my Bullet Proof Pedantry!)