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Over on goodreads a reviewer, Ari Bookzilla, left a review of Shey Stahl's book For The Summer. She only got about 20% through the book before quitting because she kept finding dialog, paragraphs, passages and plot points that were alarmingly similar to the Twilight fanfic, Dusty (link goes to Pit of Voles), by YellowBella (a two author team of authors Mary Elizabeth and Sarah, with the former showing up in the comments of the goodreads review). In fact she has eight excerpts that she found and posted in her review just from that first fifth of the book.

The comments explode as a mix of people being shocked/angry at the plagiarism or defending Shey and the arguments between the two groups. On page eleven there is a twitter picture showing that Dusty was not the only Twilight fanfic plagiarized but a fanfic with the same title, For The Summer, shares more than the title with the book.

Shey denies plagiarizing anything and unfortunately any of this is already gone as she has gone on a deleting spree. Starting with all her books on Amazon, and there is a screenshot from her Facebook page as the dearauthor twitter has saved to view of her explaining that she removed them while she talked with a lawyer. She has also deleted her Twitter and her official website. Any contact with anyone on the matter has her repeatedly denying plagiarism or having even read the fanfic in question.

An old review is pulled up as in the comments there is mention that Shey was plagiarizing back when she was a Twilight fanfic author, with the pen name Jaydmommy. And it seems like she published the fanfic with the names filed off.

An editor that Shey used for her earlier works, Max, speaks up about finding one of her books, Delayed Penalty, with plagiarized material in it and having to pull out lawyers to get her name off of Shey's books when Shey refused to take out the passages. Max later brings up that after that happened she did contact Shey's next, and current, editor about Shey's borrowing of other's peoples work. The editor refutes this as after deleting a post about distancing herself from Shey she posted another to clarify things from her side of the story.

There is also an issue with Max claiming that the cover artist of Shey's books blackmailing anyone who is using her as their editor to refuse to do any work for them.

Since that initial review other sites have picked up the story and written up articles on it, such as dearauthor, who provide further examples. (There are other unrelated topics in the article so the first one is the only one that goes over the plagiarism.) Daily Dot has also written about it. The blog Snarky Cake is good to find most of the information in one spot but the sleuthing to uncover Shey's fandom history in the updates section highlights other incidents of plagiarism in her other works.

Author Jenna Bennett on her Twitter commented about the wank and gives us the "like wearing someone else's underwear" analogy about people writing fanfic. (Thank you anonmousey for pointing this out on the wank_report.)

There is also a little spill over from the latest goodreads wank about the changes in policy on the site, so any comments talking about goodreads deleting a comment or shelf is directed at that. The dearauthor article linked to has a rundown of it if you continue reading after the part about Shey if you are curious about that.