Move Over, ‘Meerkat Manor’

maybe you can take her to court for royalties and then use that to fund some sort of Ferrat aid program

Not having done a google search myself, being somewhat lazy today, it strikes me that before the Darwinain theory of evolution, the world was thought of as a static and unchanging place, and no one even imagined a land bridge, much less what may have crossed it. And if they perhaps did, it would not have been in a post-coital moment. And why anyone reading a romance nove would care about the nocturnal habits of ferrets is beyond me. There are nature books out there for that. Can you now put historical romance novelist on your CV?

She must get paid per word? Or was she trying to elevate her craft by tossing in a bit of educational material?? I'm so glad you can have a sense of humor about this. I love the sheer nonsense of it. Notice the cover describes her as a New York Times bestselling author? Better investigate that, too!

I'm sorry you were plagiarized, but except for that, this is hysterical! It belongs in "News of the Weird". Does this "author" (copier?) seriously think that people who read trashy romance are interested in facts about ferrets? Did she do any research about the land-bridge theory and when it came into existence? How could she possibly become a writer without knowing she has to give credit to her source....we learned that in
elementary school!
Thanks for the laugh! Personally, I find the ferrets more interesting than the very unbelievable Indian/pioneer woman relationship.

Wow, who'da thunk it!
Ferrets in a romance novel?

I'm more in shock that a pioneer woman in the 1850's could discuss the land-bridge theory. Whatever book she read that in was a hundred years ahead of it's time! WOW!!

I'm more in shock that a woman in 1850's Dakota region could say she read about the land-bridge theory in a book! That theory didn't come to be widely accepted until the 1930's!

Being a freelance writer, I have great sympathy for Mr. Tolme and great disgust for Ms. Edwards lack of ethics. However, I have also a keen resentment of Mr. Tolme's apparent need to add some humorous "oomph" to his otherwise droll tale by using the community of Wall and the area of western South Dakota as a punching bag and punchline to one of the oldest varieties of put-down humor - the citiy folk mocking the small town. I was born and raised in Detroit, have lived in cities such as San Diego, Cleveland and Indianapolis and I have come here to Rapid City by choice because I prefer the atmospher of small towns to those of big cities. I know both kinds of communities well, by first-hand experience and I would choose Wall over New York City in one of their proverbial New York minutes. And, Mr. Tolme, if the hotel you chose to occupy was indeed "dumpy" (I can't imagine which one it was), I'm sure that you would have found very fine and 'normal' accomodations at any one of the several national chain facilities that are in Wall.

While I have every sympathy for Paul Tolme, and even more for the plight of the black-footed ferret, I'd like to point out that while there are a lot of "schlocky romance novels" like the one under discussion, there are also a lot of witty, well written, and well researched romance novels out there as well. Next time Mr. Tolme is staking out a shy species, he should take along a Georgette Heyer Regency romance to keep him entertained during the wait.