Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
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.
I am just amused that her characters seem to be well versed in obscure wildlife articles, given that they keep quoting them verbatim.
craptastically researched Irish Thoroughbred
That was her first book, IIRC.
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.
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.
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 ....
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.
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.
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!)
If I recall correctly, they kept telling her she was being mean ....
Like the girls who picked on them in High School?