BUSTED! Plagiarists, Fakers & Literary Hoaxes

[Smilla]

Some good news from a few weeks back: Sherrilyn Kenyon is suing Cassandra Clare. (I don't exactly love the Slate write-up, but I needed a link I could load.)

Nothing activates my trigger switch like Cassandra Clare's plagiarism, so here's hoping Ms. Kenyon sees justice.

[ladyboy]

I just found out a dad at the school had an anti-James Frey blog and protested him at various readings due to his plagiarism. He brought mace to a book reading (he didn't use it, but still!). He's a kooky guy but I like him more for knowing this.

[Smilla]

...Mace? The dad or Mr. Frey?

[Auroranorth]

I think the Slate writer missed a few things, including that all those quotes from pop culture were not cited until much later, after the Pamela Dean plagiarism came out.

I thought City of Bones was pretty standard YA and nothing special. Also, it reeked of Draco in leather pants.

[ladyboy]

The dad who was protesting Frey.

[addison]

Good article about a new true crime book set in Baltimore that people don't believe is true. He uses fake names for everybody, recreates scenes that there's no way he was present for, recounts events that no one has ever heard of happening - it all sounds pretty made up to me. The tweets from the mysterious Twitter supporter are ridiculous.

[chonies]

Wow. That article was pretty breathless--the book sounds kind of fishy. Not impossible but kind of too perfectly scripted.

[addison]

Mar 15, 2017 18:29:08 GMT -4 chonies said:

Wow. That article was pretty breathless--the book sounds kind of fishy. Not impossible but kind of too perfectly scripted.

He should have just called it a novel and it would've been fine. People look even closer at nonfiction now after all the prior hoaxes.

[sumire]

I imagine you guys must've heard about this already, but it's too much fun not to link:
Did This Book Buy Its Way Onto The New York Times Bestseller List?

Other drips and drabs that may or may not have been linked in the main Pajiba article above:

Twitter with some sample text

Entertainment Weekly article: Handbook for Mortals: A YA literary agent breaks down the drama

This GoodReads discussion has screenshots of the deleted Blues Traveler tweets.

John Popper comments (and donates money to put good books in a needy classroom.)

[chiqui]

That woman's writing career is over. Unless she uses a pen name, James Frey style.