Popular romance novelist, Cassie Edwards, is at the centre of a row about plagiarism.
A book blog (Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books) has accused her of lifting passages of text from (non-fiction) books and magazines.
Cassie has replied that she does research for her books but didn't know she was supposed to credit her sources. She added: "when you write historical romances, you're not asked to do that."
Edwards has written more than 100 novels in the last 25 years and has won the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement prize.
[Via Yahoo]
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