Monthly Archives: July 2011

The Bacon Cat Law of Internet Popularity

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Cora

I had a different post drafted for today. A serious post about German literature, linguistics and unusual narrative perspectives inspired by the awarding of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize yesterday. But then something happened. I went online and found that my … Continue reading →

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I accidentally corner the market for Strunk/White fanfiction

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Cora

I just went online and – as always – checked my sites for stats and new comments (replies coming tonight) and found that my stats had literally exploded over night. This site has already twice as many views at midday … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to… – and the magic of cartoons

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Cora

First of all, I’d like to point to Shape No. 8, the newest Pegasus Pulp e-book again. Steph Swainston is one of those authors where I sometimes wonder “Whatever happened to her?” When The Year of Our War came out, … Continue reading →

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Another story available in e-book form

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Cora

I’ve got another short story available in e-book form. Courier duty is not really one of spy extraordinaire Carrie Ragnarok’s top ten assignments. Ferrying an object from point A to point B – that’s stressful, but not very exciting. Not … Continue reading →

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A Plagalanche, toxic Westeros, responses to romance bashing, rape in fantasy, redneck bashing and Dallas remade

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Cora

Yesterday’s plagiarism post has broken the visitor record for this blog, largely due to a link from the VroniPlag press review. The VroniPlag press review also offers a link to this Spiegel Online article about the Althusmann case. Turns out … Continue reading →

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Nazis on the Bookshelf

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Cora

I really seem to be determined to violate Godwin’s Law today, because after the garden fascism in my last post, I now tackle unexpected Nazis on the bookshelf. Over at the Pegasus Pulp site, I have a post explaining the … Continue reading →

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Yet another plagiarism rant – and one about garden fascism

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Cora

Tonight, the German cultural TV program aspekte showed a good report about the German plagiarism hunters including an interview with Debora Weber-Wulff, a German informatics professor and plagiarism hunter. Debora Weber-Wulff also writes the English language plagiarism blog Copy, Shake … Continue reading →

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Romances are bad for women – again

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Cora

There seems to be another go-around in the eternal debate of “romance fiction is bad for women, because it might lead them to have unrealistic expectations of real life relationships”. Unrealistic expectations in this context often means “expecting to be … Continue reading →

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No blog today – well, almost

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Cora

Even though this is the first week of my summer holidays, it is turning out to be unusually busy with the newleaf reading yesterday, the monthly translators’ meet-up today (I met the guy who does the voice-over translation of important … Continue reading →

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Another Political Plagiarist, Bestsellers and Pulp Surrealism

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Cora

We have another case of suspected plagiarism involving a German politician. This time the suspected plagiarist is Bernd Althusmann, secretary of culture and education in Lower Saxony and president of the conference of German state secretaries of education. Since I … Continue reading →

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