Even the ferrets agree…plagiarism is bad.

Either because people know I think ferrets are the source of all things funny, or they are aware of my deep ire over plagiarism, the following article landed in my e-mail inbox yesterday from several friends: Move Over ‘Meerkat Manor’ by Paul Tolme, the victim of the Cassie Edwards plagiarism scandal. Tolme is speaking out…with [...]

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Taken, borrowed and lifted

Today, CNN reported an AP story about allegations of plagiarism made on the Web site www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com against author Cassie Edwards. The article gives a side-by-side comparison of a passage from one of Edwards’ novels and then a reference work, and the implications are fairly damning. Having never read anything by Edwards*, I’m not so much [...]

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