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1. Where I talk Wales into meeting me late tomorrow afternoon at a cat and rat cafe in Brooklyn. There was a story on NY1 about how they use pet rats to help acclimate the kittens and befriend them.
ME: There's a cat cafe in brooklyn heights I want to check out. We can do tea or coffee at the cafe where you can play with kittens and weirdly rats.
Wales: Wow. How sick is that? Cats and rats. Ok.
ME: Okay found it, it's in Brooklyn Heights -- (I send her the link.) But I wouldn't bring your cats (which are feral) because they'd probably eat the rats.
She calls me. (This was texting.)
Wales: Okay, you've intrigued me -- this is a life-long fantasy of mine. I've always wanted to see kitties and rats get along. And I really want to play with friendly kittnes. Can we do this!!!
Me: Uhm okay - but I may have to do laundry at 12 noon - because best time to do laundry.
Wales: We can do it while you do laundry.
Me: Won't work -- it only takes two hours to do laundry and you sort of have to go in and out..
Wales: How about 3PM -- where do you want to meet?
Me: How about at the cafe?
Wales: I will be there. We can do dinner after. This is so cool.
Afterwards, we'll go eat, maybe stop by an ice cream place opened by a top tier Indian (India - India) graduate of NYU and Johns Hopikins Business School and Ice Cream Making school -- who has created Indian flavored ice creams and opened a shop in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. NY1 had a story on both -- and I was about to jump to my soap, but paused to watch the story.
So...will update you on what happens after we go.
2. Hmmm...SmartBitches does a podcast with the readers who researched the plagirism case "CopyPastCris" and tabulated the number of books the writer plagirized -- which is more than 50 books and counting.
( somewhat insane story about how two readers have managed to figure out that this individual has cleverly plagarized over 85 romance novels and counting...without any personal gain or direct investment. )
They make a good point about how the romance genre gets no respect, and it should because it's about interpersonal relationships. True. Female specific genres get traditionally crapped on by people.
Seriously, it's an interesting listen.
Why You Don't Plagiarize Nora Roberts and what she went through with Janet Daily who did it
Robert's response to Copy Paste Cris
I don't understand why folks do this.
And... Apparently there are people out there who write a book, sell it, then sell their work to someone else, they repackage it and sell it as their work... Alrighty, then.
The information age has created that.
And Claire Ryan created Similar Works logrithym where you can discover if someone has plagiarized your work. I know people were doing this in fandom back in 2008. See, it's not a good idea to try and plagiarize in the digital/technological age -- where there are coders/programmers out there who can create programs that can catch you at it.
And here's the list of books that were plagiarized.
ME: There's a cat cafe in brooklyn heights I want to check out. We can do tea or coffee at the cafe where you can play with kittens and weirdly rats.
Wales: Wow. How sick is that? Cats and rats. Ok.
ME: Okay found it, it's in Brooklyn Heights -- (I send her the link.) But I wouldn't bring your cats (which are feral) because they'd probably eat the rats.
She calls me. (This was texting.)
Wales: Okay, you've intrigued me -- this is a life-long fantasy of mine. I've always wanted to see kitties and rats get along. And I really want to play with friendly kittnes. Can we do this!!!
Me: Uhm okay - but I may have to do laundry at 12 noon - because best time to do laundry.
Wales: We can do it while you do laundry.
Me: Won't work -- it only takes two hours to do laundry and you sort of have to go in and out..
Wales: How about 3PM -- where do you want to meet?
Me: How about at the cafe?
Wales: I will be there. We can do dinner after. This is so cool.
Afterwards, we'll go eat, maybe stop by an ice cream place opened by a top tier Indian (India - India) graduate of NYU and Johns Hopikins Business School and Ice Cream Making school -- who has created Indian flavored ice creams and opened a shop in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. NY1 had a story on both -- and I was about to jump to my soap, but paused to watch the story.
So...will update you on what happens after we go.
2. Hmmm...SmartBitches does a podcast with the readers who researched the plagirism case "CopyPastCris" and tabulated the number of books the writer plagirized -- which is more than 50 books and counting.
( somewhat insane story about how two readers have managed to figure out that this individual has cleverly plagarized over 85 romance novels and counting...without any personal gain or direct investment. )
They make a good point about how the romance genre gets no respect, and it should because it's about interpersonal relationships. True. Female specific genres get traditionally crapped on by people.
Seriously, it's an interesting listen.
Why You Don't Plagiarize Nora Roberts and what she went through with Janet Daily who did it
Robert's response to Copy Paste Cris
I don't understand why folks do this.
And... Apparently there are people out there who write a book, sell it, then sell their work to someone else, they repackage it and sell it as their work... Alrighty, then.
The information age has created that.
And Claire Ryan created Similar Works logrithym where you can discover if someone has plagiarized your work. I know people were doing this in fandom back in 2008. See, it's not a good idea to try and plagiarize in the digital/technological age -- where there are coders/programmers out there who can create programs that can catch you at it.
And here's the list of books that were plagiarized.