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[shadowkat]

1. Somebody actually did THIS??
Are they insane?

[Apparently an amateur writer decided to fabricate quotes from various famous/best-selling authors promoting their work. And got caught. Because of course you would. The author found out, and wrote about it in his blog - telling folks - don't do this. ETA: read the comments - apparently the poor amateur writer may have been scammed by an online review site - that told them that Scalzi had reviewed their work and provided that quote.]

I googled and apparently this isn't as rare a thing as one may think?

"Jonah Lehrer has resigned from his brief tenure as a staff writer at The New Yorker after he admitted to fabricating, and then lying about, Bob Dylan quotes used in his latest book, Imagine: How Creativity Works."

- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/07/jonah-lehrer-resigns-from-the-new-yorker-fabricating-bob-dylan-quotes.html

Hmm, considering subscribing to the New Yorker again or New York Magazine.

2. Taking tomorrow and Friday off.

Mother: Why?
Me: Doctor's appointment, I don't want to deal with the rain and the doctor and the commute.
Mother: Oh, and Friday?
Me: Supposed to rain. Am bored at work. It's a way to make the time go faster.

There's a lot of steps on the commute. About 16 flights or so it seems.
At least I get exercise?

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I know, in this day and age of easy searching and tracking, how is it that people think this won't be discovered?

[shadowkat]

Idkr? I also don't know if scammed - why the writer didn't check it out more closely? She was advised by friends too - per the comments. Apparently some people knew who the writer was. (I googled to see if anyone else had done it, and found the idiotic staff writer for the New Yorker, which I found more shocking. I did not find the person who did it to Scalzi.) I remember when I self-published or non-traditionally published my novel - and all the sites promising to provide "reviews" or "blurbs"? I checked them out and thought, scam! It's also why I don't read books based on what other writers think of them. There's no guarantee the writer read the book, that the blurb or quote is true or if true, means something else entirely in context. I ignore the marketing and determine if I want to read it - based on what's on the back cover, and a synopsis or blurb, and a sample. I also go by recs from folks I know or who are on DW.