Comments on: Long ago, in a galaxy…wait a minute–it is now and just next door

By: Jennifer Leeland

Jennifer Leeland — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:56:44 +0000

Frankly, I’ve worn out my outrage button. Probably because I’ve seen so many people- authors/publishers/agents-who have not only survived accusations of plagiarism and dishonesty, but have thrived.
Cassie Edwards is still with us.
Janet Daily is still raking in royalties.
New Concepts isn’t out of business.
There always seems to be this attitude of “what’s the big deal?”
I don’t have a solution. I’m just frustrated that it makes so little impact when we (meaning the online community) point out these people who steal, who lie and who screw other people over.
Again and again, I’ve warned people about certain publishers and they go there anyway. I’m stunned that Cassie Edwards books are still popular.
I guess all we can do is continue to state the truth and help the ones who want to listen.

By: AztecLady

AztecLady — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:59:11 +0000

@Lori: Isn't that exactly what we are doing, right now? What the SBs and The Book Binge and AnimeJune and so many others are doing? We have a topic that fires up our imaginations, we talk about it everywhere--and we leave a trail to wherever we heard about it first. It doesn't diminish the impact of what each one of us has to say, does it?

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:37:43 +0000

The craziest part of it is that it’s so easy as a blogger to say “I saw this on Blog X and I want to talk about it here…” and then you can talk about it and not steal and omg, is it so hard to be honest and attribute?

By: Mireya

Mireya — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:19:04 +0000

I am going to be brutally honest, under normal circumstances (meaning your garden variety plagiarism incident) I wouldn’t have said a peep. This time around, however, what got to me was the bullying of the victims. That has me very disturbed and pissed off on behalf of the victims. Last night I found a couple of blogs that made me want to scream: one is saying that things “have been blown out of proportion” the other is supposedly owned by a Jr. High English teacher (not sure if male or female), that particular one was gleeful about the reaction from some romance related blogs and how they don’t want to play with one another any longer. They have the right to their opinion, however, neither one touched on the fundamental and very WRONG fact that the victims are being harassed. One thing is people under a certain age reacting in the very stupid (albeit predictable) way they have, another is to have full grown adults (one of them supposedly an English teacher) reacting that way. The irony is that one of them is doing a poor attempt at level headedness, without bothering to have all the facts straight and from the RELEVANT sources (aka the victims’ own blogs).

Either way, this has been disgusting, and every time I think I am over things like this, someone manages to reach a new low.

By: Fangs for the Fantasy

Fangs for the Fantasy — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:02:44 +0000

Same old excuses. I’m actually a little impressed by how MANY excuses they’ve come up with though – and I just boggle at some of them

How can you think plagiarism is your own work? Do they not recognise their own writing? Do they think they dream wrote it or something? And plagiarism just happened? Hoooow? It’s not like something random or accidental!

And I agree so much on the “lief to you”. So many people defend people simply because they like them no matter how awful their actions – and they cosntantly excuse the inexcuseable. We can’t just condemn the plagiarism of people we don’t know or don’t like – and, as you say, they’re lying to you as well. How well do we know the person we’re defending if their writing, the medium we know them through, is not actually their own?