Stephanie Meyer Accused of Plagiarism
5 Aug
From MTV News:
There are some things you can always count on in one of today’s modern vampire novels: a breathless, cross-species love affair, bone-breaking lovemaking, lots of smoldering eyes and buckets of spilled blood. But, according to TMZ, an author named Jordan Scott claims she saw a few too many similarities between her 2006 vamp tale, “The Nocturne,” and “Twilight” scribe Stephenie Meyer’s 2008 book, “Breaking Dawn.”
In a cease-and-desist letter obtained by the site, Scott’s publisher claims the fourth book in the “Twilight” series has “striking and substantial” similarities to “The Nocturne,” part of a trilogy that 21-year-old musician/author Scott began writing when she was 15.
The letter claims there are a number of coincidences in the plotlines of the books, including a wedding, a post-wedding sex scene, a woman becoming sick because she’s carrying a child with “evil powers” and the death of a main character. The letter from a lawyer for Scott also claims that “both the ideas and in many instances the text” of the two books are very similar.
Among the examples of the similarities is a scene in which a main character is ill from carrying a child with dark powers. In Scott’s book, the description reads in part, “Her face was so pale, it was frightening; and there were beads of sweat pouring down her forehead. She couldn’t even stand, she was so weak. … She was violently ill, vomiting and scarcely able to catch her breath.”
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Sounds bogus to me.
Haha, this can’t be serious.
I mean, it’s plagiarism, because they both include a wedding followed by a post-wedding sex scene (Isn’t this what happens in real life?)?
And because there’s an unborn child with evil powers? (Like this has *never* been done before.)
And because a character dies? (This is the stupidest one.)
It’s obviously just an attempt to make a bit of money. There’s no chance of Scott winning, though.
well thats stupid. i think its a big publicism scam because now both authors are gonna see even more copys
This really is stupid…besides, Breaking Dawn is based on her original sequel, Forever Dawn, which she wrote waaaay before this other person published her little e-book, so technically Stephenie could be suing HER for rights.
This is really stupid, but it also proves Stephenie Meyer’s idea unoriginal.
Oh brother. I agree, all of those things have been done before. No book IN THE WORLD can be original all the way through. I’ve read many books that are similar to each other. I’ve written stories and later on read books that are exactly like my story. Jeez.
One more thing. There are so many vampires out there, it’s ridiculous. DRACULA CAN SUE YOU ALL!
Plagiarised or not, Meyer’s plot was the only thing fans could credit (Her language was… don’t even get me started) and now, it has been proven unoriginal.
And seriously, sparkling vampires?
This is ridculous. Breaking Dawn was a bad book, what I read from Scott’s book was bad too. Though I have a dislike for Stephanie Meyer and her literature, Scott here is just looking for attention.
Stephanie Meyer’s story copyright of her original story is WAAYYY before Scott’s.
So literally Meyer could be sueing Scott.
Peanut Is right. All books have a similarity these days. So if all writers were sueing each other for small similarities without any strong cases, no one would be writing!
Unless you were the first person to write a story about vampires its completely pointless!
Ditto what everyone said.
I would just like to add that I think Scott (a pretty bad writer from what I’m picking up on) is upset that Meyers (an almost worst bad writer) wrote a book that is exactly like every other freaking “original” vampire tale, and that it became famous instead of all the other freaking “original” vampire tales. Boohoo, so Stephanie Meyers coincidentally and probably accidentally beat her way up the New York Time’s Bestsellers list. Jordan Scott can get over it; it’s not like either of them have talent. Maybe as writers (this is controversial), but not as plot-makers.
It somewhat brings up the question “if you’re going to plagiarize, wouldn’t you want to take something that’s actually good?”
hahaha, love how she was accused of copying a FIFTEEN year old’s writing. Now do you believe she stinks? =]
~JFW1415
Ha this is so Stupid, anyone who’s written a vampire book is plagiarism of dracula By Bram Stoker.(Probably the only good vampire book I’ve read.) I think both have got to get over themselves neither can write well.
Wait a minute….both of them had a wedding and post-wedding sex in their books? Woah. Because those things are so unusual that Meyers must have taken the idea from somewhere else.
I love the two snippets from the books-two beautiful examples of cliche! Heehee.
LOL did you guys go read the comments on the mtv site? The fans amuse me. “Meyer doesn’t need to plagerise! She’s got too much talent!”
Mmhmm.
But yeah, this is still bull. Meyer may or may not have come up with her plot on her own, all vampire novels, and novels in general, have simularities to others, and scott won’t win the suit. What (s)he will get, however, is publicity. I’d never heard of The Nocturne before. Now I have. Even if I was a diehard Twilight fan (ick) the knowledge that the book exists would be there. In fact, the twilight fans complianing about this will probably just extend the knowledge of the book further.
Maybe that’s what Scott wanted. Or maybe (s)he really thought they had a case.
Hah.
Smeyer’s novels are just recycled cliche’s so I’m not surprised some one is trying to sue her. There are similarities between the two novels there’s nothing substantial for Scott to win the law suit. I think the author of ‘Follow Me By Moonlight’ has a better case.