How do people expect they can get away with it? One of the first things I remember in english class in grade school is that copying is wrong. And copying someone’s else work and saying it’s your own would get you sent to the principal’s office.

This is just sad and inexcusable in my opinion.

And she’s well past the point of imitating to learn, anyway. She’s published about 100 books.

Haven, thanks for coming by! It’s amazing how many people begin writing without a clue. Maybe sometimes that’s the best way to keep creativity fresh, but it doesn’t excuse ethical misbehaviour.

Kristen, it’s true. We just have to keep talking in hopes that people will eventually listen.

I have worked in the big magazines and so many of my success came from newspaper clippings on people about whom I’d produce even more newspaper clippings as I wrote about those people.
In a word, journalism is cannibalistic.
Dare one say plagiaristic?

I do think that this is very sad that people still think they can get away with this. Aside from it being illegal, have they not learned that people will at some point figure it out and you’ll have to pay (to some extent).

I personally feel her books should be removed. What she did was wrong. I hope she is a big enough person to own up to it, but as previous cases have shown, that’s not likely to happen.

Thank you for the great post Sela and the great resources! No author is safe when he/she puts their work out into the world, this is a sad fact, but it’s something we must do if we wish to be published.