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?

Accusing someone of plagiarism rightfully is so nerdy and ugly and mean.

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.

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?

hasn't stopped anyone so far ....

Now you people made me go read some of the CE threads over at SBTB, and I'm flabbergasted by the commenters who seem to think that it was wrong and mean for a reader to google passages from the CE ferret book.

As if there's some other magical, telepathic way to divine plagiarism.