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They're PISSED.
From the Harvard Crimson:
We find both the responses of Little Brown and their author Kaayva [sic] Viswanathan deeply troubling and disingenuous.
Go. Read the whole thing. It's pretty awesome. He even threw in a plug for McCafferty's new book. (Which, since yesterday, has jumped up 8 spots on the Amazon Sales Rank list.)
Did you see the Today Show segment? As much as I loathe the Perky One, she really got a zinger in at the end. And could KV have said 'genuine/ly' more?
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I'm enjoying the idea that they spelled her name wrong on purpose. (I don't think it's true, mind you, but I think it's funnier.)
Posted by: c.c. | 26 April 2006 at 02:29 PM
I do love a literary scandal. I wasn't really buying her whole "I internalized it" excuse and that's when I thought it was only 7 instances of plagarism, but 29-40 as The Perky One (love that) reported?! Wow, I say her books need to be off the shelves and in a shredder. Sorry but that's not a 'genuine' mistake :)
Posted by: iliana | 26 April 2006 at 03:06 PM
McCafferty was just at my library today promoting her new book. Came in like a pro and carried herself with all kinds of class. I'm a children's librarian but I'm seriously considering reading, "Sloppy Firsts" after seeing her handle the Daily News as well as she did.
Posted by: Fuse #8 | 26 April 2006 at 08:23 PM
Maybe we should begin treating writing the way we do with patents. You could licence a bit of text that you really liked from an author and use it for your own product.
Posted by: steve | 27 April 2006 at 03:57 PM