Could not disagree more. The only way you're going to lose a plagiarism case is if you actually did plagiarize the other work. If they wanted to...
I agree with Evelon. It's a hard reality to learn that people who write manuscripts are a dime a dozen. It's hard to realize that the months you...
I see a lot more crap will be available via ebooks. Big publishers will be the big winners since overhead is cut, and returns are almost nill....
Actually, what was "picked up on" was not that it was you in disguise, but rather the underlying tone of the hypothetical person. I really didn't...
Word Whisperer, you can't come into a room of writers, tell them that one of their peers is a lying thieving bastard, and expect to just get warm...
I see I wasn’t the only one who picked up on it, Mistalus. So let me explain my previous comment. See, the number of wannabe writers who think...
Can't be sparkly vampires. It wouldn't fit with the timeline the op suggests, and that publisher (Little Brown) didn't accept unagented...
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WW, you need to look up the copyright infringement cases against Stephen King, JK Rowling, and Stephenie Meyer. I won't re-cap them all for you,...
No, in the rare occurrence that a paper manuscript is submitted, it's shredded/recycled if it's rejected. The other thing that is odd about this...
This was the things a lawyer should have told MM. The simplest answer is usually the right one, and what MM is suggesting is so complicated that...
sorry, english is my second langauge and sometimes I lack subtlety and tact. you have my apologies. I am writing from an iphone right now, but I...
"writing for the market" is the only way to be sure you will not hit your target. By the time you see what the market is, you have missed it. If...
WW, there are a lot of assumptions you've made that I have to admit, sound very, very fishy. Let me list them for you: 1. 8 years after you send...
I half agree with you, Kat. The problem with forums like this is that people often think that if you have a lot of posts, you must know what...
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