Personal blog of christian
writer & fallible mom
Katy McKenna Raymond
in Kansas City, Missouri
Katy is represented by
Rachelle Gardner at
WordServe Literary
Read more Katy at
LateBoomer.net
Recent Posts
- Soul Train
- Live Out Your Dream And Discard The Box
- Tears In A Bottle
- From The Young Mom I Once Was, To You
- I Can’t Help Falling
- What A Difference Ten Years Makes
- The Next Best Thing To Robert Redford
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Where Have All The Years Gone
- Fun With Kiki Cullen
- Stuck On Mom
- Ten Years Later, Our Girls From Northern Ireland Remembered
- The Thrift of Grief
- Job Security
- The Party’s Over
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Half A Million Little Dollars
If you haven’t seen this story, you should.
Honestly, what are people thinking when they sit down to claim a hefty $500,000 advance from Little, Brown? Do writers really imagine that the technology doesn’t exist to discover whether or not they’ve plagiarized? How does a chick get herself into Harvard without knowing she shouldn’t copy chick lit from the chick in front of her?
James Frey messed up big-time, claiming fact where there was merely story. But this gal? In my opinion, this is even a more agregious literary offense.
But, hey. Who am I to judge? I don’t even like it if I think I might have copied myself.
Whoa there. That’s eerie! Why oh why would she do that? Thanks for this link, Katy!
Posted by relevantgirl on 04/23/06 at 08:28 AMNow there you go. Now I am going to feel guilty when I steal your words, “I don’t even like it if I think I might have copied myself.”
Take Care
MichaelPosted by Michael #2 on 04/23/06 at 10:48 AMThis isn’t half as bad as your spelling of egregious.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 04/23/06 at 06:58 PMBob—Yeah. I did that at 7 this morning, and then left the house until tonight. I’ve been looking at it cross-eyed ever since, thinking something wasn’t quite right…Thanks for pointing out my error. I will pay my publisher back the huge advance and we’ll call it even. ;)
Posted by Katy on 04/23/06 at 07:03 PMRelevant Mary—I will be interested to find out the whys and wherefores. Imagine being offered an advance like that while you’re still in high school, and the pressure that might result. That’s all I can think…
Take Care Michael Number #2—Aw, heck, it’s OK just this once…Ha! :)
Posted by Katy on 04/23/06 at 07:31 PMThat is AMAZING. I am in shock.
Posted by kathryn, dym on 04/23/06 at 11:38 PM
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