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| Writing Scandals 5: Jumi Bello Schnujo's now Cujo -- Run! asked me about writing scandals. What a great topic! I thought I’d covered those I know about, but I recently learnt about another one because the author in question submitted to a publisher I know… This is the story he told me. Jumi Bello In 2022 a new author was being touted as getting ready to release her debut novel through a prestigious mid-sized publisher. And then… nothing. Well, turns out the publisher discovered just in the nick of time that she had plagiarised huge chunks of her novel. And not from small, niche authors, but people as well-known as James Baldwin. She decried the decision, then blamed her mental health struggles, but none of that worked and the novel remained unpublished. So she wrote an essay about her experiences and about plagiarism… Ready for this? She also plagiarised chunks of her essay about plagiarism, including from the site plagiarismtoday.com! The story is still ongoing, but one question yet to be answered is how the publisher discovered it at the last minute after it had got through the reading phases and even editing without any alarm bells being struck. As for the publisher I know? Jumi apparently submitted a short story to an anthology, he recognised her name and decided it was not worth the risk. Although, he hastens to add, she wouldn’t have been accepted anyway. The writing, he reckons, just wasn’t that good. |
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