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	wickedchild 2008-04-19 02:18 am UTC (link)
	What is it about the name Cassie, fictional or otherwise, that makes the bearer of said name infinitely stupid? At least Signet woke up and realized what a hack a she is/was. Note: Not all Cassie name bearers are in fact stupid, just the ones I've come across in my life. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kaen 2008-04-19 08:27 am UTC (link)
	The craziness of other Cassies is the reason I've decided that if I ever get a book published I'll either do it under the name 'Cass' or my initials. It just feels like the right thing to do to ward off future insanity. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eleutheria 2008-04-19 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	You prophecy doom only to get ignored for long enough, crazy you would be, too. /Yoda (Reply to this)(Parent)

melannen
2008-04-19 09:47 pm UTC (link)

When I was a kid I had a series of girls' mystery novels called The Cassandra Mysteries about an average middle class girl with a boring name who got a pen pal and decided to pretend to her pen pal that she was a debutante named (what else?) "Cassandra!".

Then it turns out that her pen pal is an *actual* rich debutante, and they have these globe-trotting adventures together (funded by rich pen pal) wherein "Cassandra" is solving mysteries and meeting hot guys while trying desperately to keep the deception going.

I've never heard anyone talk about them, but I sometimes wonder if more of fandom read them than will admit to it. :D

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	thrynrose 2008-04-20 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	raises hand I totally read those. A lot. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sneer 2008-04-19 02:30 am UTC (link)
	I keep meaning to mention this: at least five each of three of her "Savage (whatever)" novels have been sitting in the paperback rack at the grocery store for months now. They never seem to go anywhere. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	limyaael 2008-04-19 03:18 am UTC (link)
	I counted twenty different Cassie Edwards books, each with multiple copies, when I was in my local Kroger a few days ago. None of them seem to be selling, even when placed in the "Number 1 Bestseller!!" slots. If I go tomorrow, I plan to see if all the same ones are still there. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	evilsqueakers 2008-04-20 03:01 am UTC (link)
	I'll look at my Krogers tomorrow when it's grocery shopping time, too. I always pass by the books, even if I'm not getting one. Where else can you get a Harlequin for like 25% off because you have a free Plus card? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	somnambulicious 2008-04-19 05:41 am UTC (link)
	Maybe she needs a new tactic. Instead of Indian/white romance, she could try her hand at black/white romance, and instead of "Savage [Whatever]," the titles could be... ...could be... ...I'm just going to stop right there. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mercutia 2008-04-19 04:56 am UTC (link)
	I can't be the only one who had a nice little pang of schadenfreudy glee. Indeed you are not. (Reply to this)

	somnambulicious 2008-04-19 05:35 am UTC (link)
	"Writing my Indian romances is my small tribute to those beautiful first people of our land who have suffered so much injustice," Edwards writes on her home page on Penguin's Web site. Er, thanks, but no thanks. Really. (Reply to this)

	brennalarose 2008-04-19 07:06 am UTC (link)
	To Ms. Edwards: waves Bye, Cunt Rollup! DO forget to write! To the Author of the Article: It's Smart Bitches WHO LOVE Trashy Novels. Plz to be getting that right, kthnxbai. throws confetti and serves cake (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gunshou 2008-04-19 11:44 am UTC (link)
	It's Smart Bitches WHO LOVE Trashy Novels. Plz to be getting that right, kthnxbai. Except for where it's not? http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ shrugs (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2008-04-19 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	I had thought they were going for the website name rather than the address, hence my pedantic annoyance. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gunshou 2008-04-19 02:45 pm UTC (link)
	I was hoping they were similarly named snarkalicious sites. ^.^ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smashingstars 2008-04-19 08:42 am UTC (link)
	In a phone interview in January, the author told The Associated Press that she indeed "takes" material from other works, but said she didn't know she was supposed to credit her sources. She then asked her husband to get on the phone. Charles Edwards said the author got only "ideas" from other books and did not "lift passages." Good grief. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2008-04-19 01:56 pm UTC (link)
	...I will suppress my annoyance with women who play "TEE HEE AH'M SO CUTE AN' DURRRRRR" now. Just ugh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gunshou 2008-04-19 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	Right. Why did her husband have to speak for her? Does he know all the big words to stymie the poor reporters? Blergh. (Reply to this)(Parent)

pfeffermuse
2008-04-19 03:38 pm UTC (link)

By way of Smart Bitches, The Christian Science Monitor ran an amusing article on 16 April about Paul Tolmé and the popularity he's received from the plagiarism of his article on black-footed ferrets.

Should I be amused or sad that with the Cassie Edwards debacle and the SVA/RVD vs. JKR/WB trial that fandom has proved to be better at reporting than any of the mainstream media?

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	sparkysrevenge 2008-04-19 04:07 pm UTC (link)
	You should be amusedly sad. Clearly, I think we've found a new career for cleolinda. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	harumph 2008-04-19 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	And, at least in the RDR/SVA debacle, less biased... or at the very least, not prone to comparing SVA to freaking Harry Potter good GRIEF. Now, if we could just get the Smart Bitches to make a similar Pie Chart of FAIL for CE, my life would be complete. (Reply to this)(Parent)

particle_person
2008-04-19 07:33 pm UTC (link)

Hm, fandom and cleolinda have proven better at aggregating and organizing information, but it's also true that much of that information came in the form of articles from the mainstream media.

I think where there's a narrow topic, fandom does a better job at reporting. For instance, the Leaky coverage of the JKR vs. RVD trial was great because they could sit there all day and concentrate on just that trial. I imagine the MSM reporters were both less motivated to get the story at all, and less motivated to get it right.

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	evilsqueakers 2008-04-20 03:03 am UTC (link)
	You can be amused, I sure as hell am. (Reply to this)(Parent)

harumph
2008-04-19 04:14 pm UTC (link)

In the Smart Bitches discussion of the article, SAM, one of the CE supporters/wannabe internet lawyers has popped up claiming that CE being dropped from Signet has nothing to do with the Bitches' investigations and plagiarism allegations and the bitches had better shut up or they'll be sued for slander ZOMG!

To which Nora Roberts and others respond with a good ol' fashioned smackdown. God, I love intelligently snarky (while still being classy) authors. :D

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tetsuki
2008-04-20 10:42 pm UTC (link)

Heh, you'd think she'd give it up after being bitchslapped so bad the first time around. But noooooo -- according to her, high school students do it, too, so it must be right! And Nora Roberts used to be a sweet woman and now she's just a bitch!

This really makes me want to buy a Nora Roberts novel, which is odd because I never particularly cared about the romance genre. :D

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smashingstars
2008-04-21 03:14 am UTC (link)

Hot cookies, that thread on SMTB is getting wankariffic. Plus that SAM lady keeps insisting all this plagiarism stuff isn't what she was taught in college:

All we were required to do was to put quotation marks around any information we used from books, magazines, and newspapers. They didn’t start requiring credits and footnotes until after I had graduated.

Er... I don't want to know where she went to school.

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	smashingstars 2008-04-21 03:17 am UTC (link)
	Never mind, the drama is over - I had an old tab open and didn't realize I hadn't refreshed the page. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	I'm a bad person raised by hyenas tofuknight 2008-04-19 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	And who’s gloating? It’s not as if the woman is being hung in effigy or anything. - Nora Roberts Oh can we? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease? And then light it on fire? It’s not about being happy to see an author’s career hit the skids. -Jill Sorenson When she's a plagerizing bitch it is. :D (Reply to this)

	evilsqueakers 2008-04-20 03:28 am UTC (link)
	How much do I love Alyssa Day (Alesia Holliday)? Just a little more than ginormous amounts. And I can't be the only one that's glad they changed the layout, right? It's easier to read comments now. Thank goodness. Poor SAM. It must be painful being that willfully blind. Or Cassie Edwards. Possibly both. Take your pick. (Reply to this)

	mistressrenet 2008-04-20 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	I think We need a poem. (Reply to this)

	izzygal 2008-04-22 12:33 am UTC (link)
	Frankly Signet needs to get off their high horse I mean they published her shit for YEARS - that's what they should be ashamed of :) (Reply to this)