2008 Asshat Countdown #2: In her own words – not!

The name Cassie Edwards first graced this blog on January 7, 2008 shortly after she was outed as a serial plagiarist by the Smart Bitches, and for several months afterward she provided a source of unintentional hilarity both on this blog and across the whole blogosphere.  Here is an NY Times best-selling author who apparently invented cut-and-paste some time in the mid eighties.  This is a woman whose plagiarism is so rampant that someone can, in less than half an hour,  find a smoking gun just by using Amazon’s “search inside” feature and doing a little Googling.  A woman who seems surprised and hurt when people point out that copying wholesale passages out of your references and claiming them as your own is not a good thing.

Of course, the most snarf-inducing part of this whole episode were the ferrets.

I mean, if you’re copying didactic descriptive passages from non-fiction nature writers for your characters’ post-coital pillow-talk, you’re just asking for public mockery.