Scammers, Plagiarism and Witchcraft, Oh My
Posted by Casey on October 17, 2007
What happens when a blogger exposes a really stupid case of plagiarism? Well, a major drama filled with ever changing excuses, threats of lawsuits, and witchy curses. Not to mention a lot of entertaining comments from the literary peanut gallery.
My favorite part of this whole thing is when the scamming agent wants to sue the blogger, Jane (a lawyer), for exposing the plagiarism.
Jane emailed the agent with: “I don’t understand why you are emailing me. If you have a lawsuit, have your attorney contact me.”
To which the agent replied: “Don’t worry, when the papers are ready, you will hear from him, trust me. We had no clue this person [the author of the work that was ripped off] or his books existed until last week when YOU posted it. I asked you not to and YOU did, now we have this huge explosion going on and it started with YOU.”
In other words, she wants to sue Jane for publicly spilling the beans that the Prologue of the book Of Atlantis is actually the opening pages of Dark Prince by David Gemmell.
Her myopic stupidity leaves me speechless.
It all starts here . . .
continues to here . . .
Victoria Strauss — Christopher Hill Redux
and is discussed in greater detail here . . .
and more as the comments spill into October 17th . . .
How to Fling About Legal Insults Like a Lawyer, Part 1 of Many Parts
Claudia said
um… wow…
Janine said
Actually, it wasn’t the scamming agent who sent those threatening letters to Jane, it was Lanaia Lee, who hired that agent and who claimed she wrote what was actually Gemmell’s writing.
Casey said
Hi Janine,
I got the above exchange from comment 284 to Top 10 Tips for Plagiarists: