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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Oklahoma
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Plagiarisim train wreck in progress
Check out Lanaia Lee. She has some problems. The biggest being that she took a book that was already published changed some of the names, changed the title and self pubbed it.
Yes. She self published it. Here is the blog where I first heard about it. And if this is a redundant post I apologize. |
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fiddle-dee-dee
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Behind you! Boo.
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Jeez. She could have at least changed a word here and there.
That takes some chutzpah. |
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bananaed
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: oontz oontz oontz oontz
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She (or her ghost writer) didn't even manage to change the names all the way through. The name "Alexander" still shows up in the changed version.
And I'm not sure if she knew she self-pubbed it. She used an "agent" whose sales were to PublishAmerica. If she's actually the victim of multiple scammers, I feel sorry for her.
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Super Duper Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
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That's very durrrrrrrrr. Also, I generally get bloody annoyed by the mini-bios people write about themselves in 3rd person.
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Kickin it old school, posers beware
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Through the looking glass.
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I don't know why she doesn't take down her web site...she's getting trashed in her own little message board and chat-box thingie. It's an awful thing to see...
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Watching Bollywood action scenes.
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Look up!
Posts: 8,393
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I do pity this sad woman, bound to her wheelchair, mourning the loss of ten children, raised by a dark witch, trying to gain some sort of validation by stealing other people's work. How very sad.
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Oklahoma
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Like her physical issues change the fact that she is a thief.
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 937
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All I can say is, Wow!
Although some of the comments on Dear Author are incredibly funny, I agree with the last ones. 1) She is either a delusional and/or incredibly gullible woman who got suckered several times over (In which case, I still have very little sympathy) OR 2) She is a raving scam artist who has abused another authors work, and offended every person even remotely connected with wheel chairs, children, stroke victims, married people, hypertension disorders, females, males, people who can read, and/or jack russell terrier owners. That's a pretty big list to accomplish in one fell swoop. |
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just a little
Join Date: Jul 2007
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I love this from the "Top Ten" comments:
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Oklahoma
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![]() **snerk** I don't see what the point is. What gain can you have, especially in plagiarizing such a well known author. |
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A Work in Progress
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Oregon
Posts: 9,926
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She totally ripped off Nora Roberts a while back.
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 937
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Wait...oh god(dess). They just added Wiccans to the mix...
See...before it was just a general "i'm disgusted to be in the same Genus as you" seeing as I don't own any jack russell terriers.... but now. Now, it's personal. |
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Oklahoma
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I missed that one... |
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blue eyed floozy
Join Date: May 2007
Location: St. John, Kansas
Posts: 7,746
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i am female, have hypertension, own a jack russel terrier and am preparing to be offended!--s6
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just a little
Join Date: Jul 2007
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See, I had no idea who she was. LOL. Now I know she has mental problems: http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:...ient=firefox-a Wish I could blame all my weird behavior on never-before-heard-of mental problems, but unfortunately, I'm just responsible. And I'm sorry. 'sniff. |
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just a little
Join Date: Jul 2007
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And quit dogging me or I'll have another stroke & there'll be blood on your hands! wee PS -- so sorry! I plagiarized that poor woman. Please ignore my above comment. (taken from above link) |
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Luftmensch Emeritus, A.D.D.
Join Date: Feb 2005
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This is truly sad, though there is a strong possibility that her stroke may have left her a bit mentally disabled as well. That might account for the lack of touch with reality she seems to evidence.
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Watching Bollywood action scenes.
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Look up!
Posts: 8,393
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From her website:
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The message board at the site linked is filled with hate mail, and the message boards at her private site are filled with spam. She's been outed, and could face charges...though I kind of doubt it. I think the interesting part of the train wreck is probably over.
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 937
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From DearAuthor.com:
"Velma Posted: Oct 11th, 2007 at 4:18 pm 112 Things are getting more interesting: her publisher is apparently incapable of telling the difference between your blog and Making Light, and is now threatening you with lawsuits and “wiccan” tenfold retaliation there. It doesn’t bode well for Lee or Pillsbury." God(dess)...somedays it is hard to know I share the same breath as these people, let alone that we check the same box on the religion questionnaire.... Someone really needs to come up with a way to excommunicate Wiccans from the path... Ya' know, so we could all point and say, "She was too crazy for us, sorry. You can have her back." |
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ageing savage
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: the sticks
Posts: 4,718
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I'm leaning towards believing that this woman got totally scammed. |
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 937
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that's Mt. Blood to you, missy
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Watching Bollywood action scenes.
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Look up!
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bananaed
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: oontz oontz oontz oontz
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Scammed twice. That is just so wrong.
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Watching Bollywood action scenes.
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Look up!
Posts: 8,393
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It just occurred to me that MeowGirl's tag line applies *even more* to plagiarized work, but in a different way...
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----------------------- ![]() Acoustic guitar. This is absolutely beautiful: https://lonneys.bandcamp.com/album/s...sis-in-spheres ^^ Help this guy fund a new project - and get CD's and stuff for yourself in the process.
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