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.
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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."
Susan W. - Jan 10, 2008 7:50:59 am PST #4655 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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!)
Frankenbuddha - Jan 10, 2008 8:05:39 am PST #4661 of 28342
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
If I recall correctly, they kept telling her she was being mean ....
Like the girls who picked on them in High School?
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 8:11:18 am PST #4662 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Accusing someone of plagiarism rightfully is so nerdy and ugly and mean.
Toddson - Jan 10, 2008 8:18:27 am PST #4663 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And, on the SBTB site, they had a plagairism expert of some sort who'd looked at the examples (or perhaps only one or two) and say it did look like plagairism ... and someone posted accusing him of slander.
It's very fan-girly in there.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 8:18:57 am PST #4664 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I wonder how one becomes a plagiarism expert.
Dear God, plagiarism is a fucked-up word. -iari-? Are they trying to make sure that only people intelligent enough to spell it can accuse people of it?