Eh stuff...and plagiarism

1. ganked from maia -- The History of the World in Admin -- as someone who has spent most of her working life in the administrative and operations departments of various businesses of varying sizes, this is fascinating, and most likely true. Evil Marketing people have ruled the world for too long now -- fire their butts and hire a good public administrator.
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I think this relates to the US and Brexit. Although, it should be stated that one of our Administrative Assistants/Clerk Typist is a heretrosexual male.

2. Netflix finally got around to cancelling The Punisher and Jessica Jones.. Hardly surprising.

3. What is it with "Indiana Jones" and DW today? Smartbitches had a question about an Indiana Jones like romance novel and someone else had a post about an Indiana Joney style sci-fi novel. Is something in the water? I remember writing a really bad novel about an heroine fashioned after Indiana Jones during WWII back when I was a teenager. Think a female Indiana Jones with a male damsel and male fatal. I flipped the genders.

4. ah... Another Plagiarism Allegation against another romance novelist -- why is it always genre novelists who get either targeted or reported for doing this? Most infamously it was Janet Daily who was accused and later confessed to plagiarizing Nora Roberts novels -- she overcame it before she died at 69.
(Honestly I don't think it would be that hard -- Roberts is a paint-by-numbers writer, it's not like her style is distinctive or anything. Be like plagiarizing James Patterson.) Then of course there was the The Cassandra Clare debacle -- where the writer allegedly plagiarized a Draco fanfic and got banned from fanfic.net as a result (not to worry -- she went on to write a best selling series "Shadowhunters" based on that plagiarized fanfic. LMAO.)

The latest culprit is Cristiane Serruya. And she's copying from Tessa Dare, Courtney Milan and Lisa Keyplas, among others. And fans found it. Apparently there's a CopyPaste app that can search a book and find phrases that are lifted from another one? Folks in the digital age -- don't plagiarize, people can catch you and humiliate you on the internet for kicks.

Again, I ask, why is it always women and in the fantasy and romance genres?

Hmmm..curious to see if there are any other cases -- I did a search.

* What Are Famous Examples of Plagiarism

Note some will surprised you. And they aren't all women, and none of them appear to be romance novelists. Huzzah! I sort of knew about Alex Haley, but thought that had been resolved in his favor...guess not?

* Still More High Profile Cases as chronicled in the Boston Globe

Talks about James Frey, among others -- more modern examples.

* Literary Plagiarism Scandals - goes into literary scandals, some of which got disproved.

Per the last link? Plagiarism isn't that easy to prove.

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