Move Over, ‘Meerkat Manor’

While it is awful that your work was plagiarized I find it insulting that you belittle and generalize about the romance books and call them "trashy" and "bodice rippers". One author and one author's book hardly represents the entire industry.

This is my first visit to Newsweek online, and I can only guess that this admittedly intriguing article was distributed over six pages to discourage rural readers with dial-up connections from reading the magazine.

This is my first read of a Newsweek posting, and I can only guess that distributing this admittedly intriguing article across six separate pages is a ploy to discourage rural readers with dial-up from reading the magazine.

Why am I not suprised, in a world that thinks Wikipedia is a credible source (read their home page if you have any doubt). The biggest part of this, lightly touched on by the author, is that the practice of 'cut and paste' without credit is rampant in HS and College, and it is an excepted practice!

It's only wrong if you get caught...

Hmmm, did I miss the ferret's bombing Israel or anywhere else or talking about Arab oil? This was a great and hysterical read on plagerism.

Hmm, I didn't see anywhere in the text about ferrrets bombing anything. Perhaps I missed that part. Anyhow, it was a hysterical read on plagerism, especially the comment..."Wow, that was hot!:

um, I thought this was about the ferrets.

umm,wasn't this about ferrets?

I'd like "esbee" to know that although I am sorry he/she has been the victim of piracy, to say 'the Chinese steal art' is the same as saying, 'the Americans are hypocrites'. Don't make sweeping statements. Discipline your language - refrain from tarring an entire ethnic group with your antagonistic brush.

the Chinese steal art from hard working American artists and copy it brush stroke for brush stroke or through the miracle of the internet and printing, just cut and paste it straight into their item to sell on ebay and other places...mine was lifted and is selling on many items...and other than stop that auction i cannot spend all my time looking for that image
there are no teeth in the laws, besides I got bigger things to worry about like the USDA program tht wants me to tell them everywhere i take my horse...see nonais.org for more info on that travesty....

Oops. Sorry for the double post.

found out a while ago that Ms. Edwards was in the hotbed for some of her novels when there was an article on how Nora Roberts basically says, "stealing someone else's work is a big fat NO NO." Yet to see it even clearer in this instance really makes me wonder about the rest of her novels as well. She's a prolific and YES best selling romance writer. She's been writing for YEARS. Although I have never read her- and now I most certainly will not. I like cheesy romances, I like fantasy, I like good thrillers. I will read anything that looks good. The link for the Nora Roberts statement and story was through MSN in their Entertainment, Books and Arts sections, but I don't recall it offhand, so I can't accredit it like a NORMAL, EDUCATED, MORAL person should.

As a student, I learned you give credit where credit is due in all your papers. How could she not know that? How could she consider herself a writer and not have learned that? Any style manual like the Little, Brown Handbook or the MLA Style Manual will say the same thing and tell you how it should properly be done. She must not have taken any ENGLISH COMPOSITION classes in JUNIOR HIGH OR HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE FOR THE MATTER AT ALL. So she can say, "Oh I didn't know." But that is one lousy excuse to say.

In this age of instant information through search engines off all kinds, plagiarism is sure to abound. That's why teachers have the technology to look for such things in students' papers. Maybe editors and publishers should have that as well.

Just my thoughts.

An incredible story!!
If your anger has abated, you've hit upon something--using the medium of romance novels to advocate for environmental issues! Edwards' publisher should re-issue the paperback with an epilogue informing the reader, IN YOUR WRITING, of the challenge faced by ferret in competition with cattle.

Wow...its pretty darn bad when you have to plagarize to write a trashy romance novel. Makes the rest of us who work for a living suffer heaving bosoms of jeaousy.

So Very glad you could ferret out the truth. Cassie has been writing for a long, long time and I am sure knows better. She just happened to get caught with her big girl panties down. Your sense of humor aside - she messed up big time. Beware - there are a gazillion women and men reading those trashy romance
novels. The hate mail will pour in. Cassie needs to say sorry and donate money to a ferret rescue group or you. Have to go now........my boobs are heaving, I am gasping for breath, mindless, wanton and just your plain ole hussy.......

maybe you can take the plagerist to court for royalties and then use the that money for some sort of Ferrat aid. Heck you may not need to even involve the court, she may want to do it simply not to lose anymore face.