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Wait, wasn't Cassie Edwards that person who was featured on fandomwank awhile back as a fan-author who'd managed to get a book deal?  And she made a big deal about taking all of her fics down?  And she had to change her pseudosurname to something other than her fandomsurname?  And she was a raving bitch to everyone?

Or was that someone else?  That name rings serious bells for me, and I don't know why.

Also, note how utterly SHOCKED I am that a former fan-author has been accused of plagiarism.  Shocked, really.  See this?  This is my shocked face.

Also, Sydney is slowly winning me over. In part because she has stopped trying to force Darwin into playing with her.  I took her for a brisk one-mile walk (and then came home and got D and took HIM for the same brisk one-mile walk, and I sweartogod, a few weeks of this and I'm gonna be a size two).  And FINALLY everyone in the house has CALMED DOWN.  If I didn't have to do laundry and clean the kitchen, I would be getting a nap.  (I got an MA for this?)

...But she still smells like the shelter.  Which smells vaguely of pee.  Might have to give her a bath even though she's seeing the groomer Friday.

Also, my husband needs to stop calling me "Dog Wheeeeeeesperer Jr."
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Because I'm a geek like that, I've been following this story for a while. This article makes me a happy Bunneh.

I mean, really.  People bust their fucking asses to write something original, and a plagiarist gets a $500,000 two-novel book deal?  I don't think so.

I think the thing that bugs me most about plagiarists is that they seem to think everyone around them is dumber than a box of rocks.  They insult the intelligence of everyone around them.  I mean, all the way from my students (kids who could barely string together a coherent sentence for in-class writings suddenly compose papers worthy of publication -- riiiiiiiiight) to fanfic plagiarists (copying off other ficcers AND published works -- and they think no one will notice), and now this.

How in the HELL did she think no one would pick up on this?!?!

For that matter -- why hadn't anyone noticed SOONER?

(And, dude, if I were one of her professors, I'd be going through her assignments with a fine-toothed comb.  If you've got balls enough to plagiarize something like The Princess Diaries for a $500,000 book deal, you've got more than enough balls to plagiarize essays and research papers.)

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