Not that this doesn’t happen to me all the time, but this is probably the highest level plagiarism I’ve been a victim of so far.<\/p>\n
I have a copy of James Patterson’s Violets Are Blue,<\/em> published in 2002, and I knew it involved “vampire crimes,” but I never got around to reading it. A vampire forum recently posted a short excerpt from the book with the comment, “note some of the references.” Well, I noted the references, and golly gee, they did sound familiar.<\/p>\n From Chapter 27 of Violets Are Blue<\/em> (2002):<\/p>\n From my article “Real Vampires,” published in FireHeart<\/em> No 2, Fall, 1987, and republished online (not by me) in 1997:<\/p>\n And…<\/p>\n From Chapter 27 of Violets Are Blue<\/em> (2002):<\/p>\n From “Real Vampires:”<\/p>\n Ummm…yeah. Mr. Patterson, shame on you. You don’t even have the decency to mention my name, like Susan Hubbard does in The Society of S.<\/em> A hugely successful writer like you, and you can’t even slightly rephrase your source material? I am not impressed.<\/p>\n (EDIT: I ran a search and found this<\/a> from 2005. Clearly, Patterson is not only a plagiarist, he’s a seasoned and unrepentent plagiarist. Hmmph.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not that this doesn’t happen to me all the time, but this is probably the highest level plagiarism I’ve been a victim of so far. I have a copy of James Patterson’s Violets Are Blue, published in 2002, and I … Continue reading