Tag Archives: plagiarism

A Tale of Two Presidents

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Cora

Yes, there’s some ranting about German politics behind the cut, so just skip if you don’t care:

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Cora attends a mall motorbike show and contemplates getting an e-reader

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Cora

This afternoon, I visited what was billed as a motorbike show at a local mall. Now mall motorbike shows rarely compare to dedicated motorbike shows for obvious reasons. But this one was such a bust that they should just have … Continue reading →

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And yet another plagiarism case

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Cora

Yet another plagiarism case has popped up, this time concerning uncanny similarities between Lenore Hart’s 2011 novel The Raven’s Bride and Cothburn O’Neal’s 1956 novel The Very Young Mrs. Poe. Both novels deal with Virginia Clemm, cousin and teenaged bride … Continue reading →

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A local author done good, a plagiarist speaks out, Scalzi on literary snobs and the problems with classic and modern SF

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Cora

The local newspaper Weser Kurier profiles Bremen writer Corinna Gerhards whose children’s book Mondläufer debuts today. I met Corinna in the creative writing workshop at Bremen university. I couldn’t find an Amazon link for Mondläufer, so here is the publisher’s … Continue reading →

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Plagiarism is not Art – Q.R. Markham, Helene Hegemann and the Excuses of Cheaters

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Cora

There is more information on the Q.R. Markham plagiarism case: Thriller author Jeremy Duns, who was duped into blurbing the novel and running an interview with Q.R. Markham on his website, speaks out about discovering the plagiarism on his blog. … Continue reading →

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Yet another plagiarism case

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Cora

We have a new plagiarism case and this time it’s not a politician but a thriller author named Q.R. Markham whose debut novel Assassin of Secrets was found to be so heavily plagiarized that the publisher withdrew it from sale. … Continue reading →

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A new sales venue, emotional writing, plagiarism, women in epic fantasy and awesome feminist cartoons

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Cora

First of all, I have an announcement: Pegasus Pulp e-books are now available at OmniLit/AllRomance ebooks. If you need one of the more exotic e-book formats (Palm, Microsoft Reader, Rocket) or are an international reader who wants to avoid the … Continue reading →

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Legendary Literary Grudge Matches

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Cora

Spats and grudge matches among writers are nothing new. Indeed, writers and storytellers have been quarreling with each other and with their audience for as long as humans have been telling stories. In the online SFF community a fight breaks … 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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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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