It continues. Now #CopyPasteCris is claiming it‘s the fault of her ghostwriter(s) but another ghostwriter has stepped up and said that when they worked for #CopyPasteCris they were given material they assumed was the author‘s and told to make it more complete. And they also weren‘t paid, which appears to be a real problem for ghostwriters (as well as underpayment). There are updates from Courtney Milan and several other people.
DGRachel Does this happen in other genres? To quote Supernatural‘s musical episode “there‘s too much drama in the drama department!” 6y
jpmcwisemorgan @DGRachel There have been various plagiarism charges over the years in over genres (including some journalists) and other genres have their own blow ups - there have been some things in YA, I think. I follow a lot of romance writers because they‘re fun to follow so I end up seeing a lot this sort of thing. KU doesn‘t help because people think romance is easy so they cobble together stuff and get click farms and game the system. 6y
jpmcwisemorgan @DGRachel There‘s an article under one of my other posts about an author who lied about having terminal cancer, that‘s not in the romance genre. I think that sort of thing has popped up quite a bit the last few years. Most of the nastiness I see about #ownvoices tends to be in YA and scifi/fantasy - although it does show up in romance discussions. 6y
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jpmcwisemorgan @DGRachel I think it depends on who or what you follow because I think there‘s a lot of “stuff” happening that doesn‘t make it outside of a community. 6y
DGRachel Interesting. I follow a bunch of authors but I don‘t spend a lot of time on Twitter so I miss a lot of drama, apparently. 😂 I think I usually only hear about things when you post about it. 6y
jpmcwisemorgan @DGRachel Not all authors get into this sort of thing. And, as @LibrarianRyan pointed out elsewhere, this looks to have some ties to some of the KU scamming that happens. It‘s unfortunate because that ultimately hurts readers. This is bringing up some of the discussion around ghostwriters, and apparently that‘s another whole mess of basically people writing entire books for almost nothing and being take advantage of. 6y
jpmcwisemorgan @DGRachel I‘m also obsessed with Twitter. 6y
DGRachel Yeah, I had no idea of all the bad stuff that happens with KU. That was insane when I saw some of it. I appreciate your Twitter obsession-I get the best gossip without having to sort through ALL of it. 😂😂😘 6y
jpmcwisemorgan @DGRachel I didn‘t know about KU until #cockygate but I wasn‘t totally surprised because I‘d stumbled across books I now know were stuffed with extra content to game the system. I try to weed through all the drama to get at the parts that effect readers the most. There are so many great authors to read that I figure why not be able to weed a few out? 6y
DGRachel I saw that they‘ve identified at least 23 authors and 26 books so far that this Christiane person plagiarized. 😱 6y
jpmcwisemorgan @DGRachel Yes. I have the list. There‘s also some speculation that she‘s using a pen name - all her social media and website have been taken down. 6y
DGRachel This is when I wish a Litsy would let us comment with gifs because I know there‘s a good one out there with someone eating popcorn 🍿 and that‘s totally how I feel at the moment. 😂 6y
jpmcwisemorgan @DGRachel Oh that would be great! 6y
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