Similarities
Similarities document
The document below is an extract from the court briefing that lays out the similarities between my works and the Crave series.
Excerpt from the Similarities document:
“Both tell essentially the same story in the first-person voice of an approximately seventeen-year-old girl from San Diego who arrives in Anchorage, Alaska after an accident kills her family members. Her last words with her family were in a fight and she feels guilty. The accident was in a type of car that crashed and fell a long distance. She suffers panic attacks and anxiety from the trauma of her loss. She now lives with the only two family members she believes she has left who are both supernatural witches which she doesn’t know because she has been kept ignorant of the magical world. She will later learn that she has a maternal green-eyed grandmother (and is the descendant of a twin goddess through her) and a father / grandfather (with smokey-gray / smoke-gray eyes who is the voice she hears in her head talking to her) both of whom are alive in each work.
The heroine believes she is human at the beginning of the story in both works. She is halfwitch by blood though she is something different. She is a creature not seen in their world in ten generations (BMR) / 1,000 years (Crave series) who can shift forms, has magic in her blood, and whose very purpose is to restore the balance among the warring factions of supernatural creatures. The war between the supernaturals threatens the human world and has caused serious storms. The heroine is a queen and a unique being whose kind are protectors of all creatures, including humans, and they don’t take sides (BMR) / can’t be swayed (Crave) by either side in the strife between the supernaturals in order to protect the balance.”
Similarities within a scene example
Sample of a scene comparison between BMR drafts and Crave, book one. Note the choreography. This scene occurs between the heroine and two guys who are supernatural creatures, which she doesn’t realize when she sees them. It’s winter in Alaska and cold, and the guys aren’t dressed for the winter weather. They remind the heroine of “80’s rockers.” This sequence occurs in the first BMR drafts toward the end of the story. It is then moved up to the first big action scene in the subsequent drafts toward page 50, and is also the first big action scene in Crave toward page 50.
KEY:
Yellow indicates identical or almost identical words used within the same comparative sentences
Cream indicates similar words or similarity of meaning within the same comparative sentences
Pink indicates page number proximity within 50 pages of the same events occurring in both books. Crave is 571 pages; the various versions of BMR vary between 400-600 pages.
The Indices
The following list of character indices index and demonstrate similarities between my works and the Crave series.
The character indices
Heroine’s Female Nemesis Index
Read the overall summary of the books index here:
The language indices
BMR x CRAVE language index - Exhibit 46
BMR x CRUSH language index - Exhibit 47
BMR x COVET language index - Exhibit 48
BMR x COURT language index - Exhibit 49
Articles about this case
Harvard article on similar plagiarism
Click below to read about a situation we believe is analogous with only 24 plagiarized and paraphrased statements — where the book was pulled by the publisher:
Read number 181, pages 46 and 47
Katy Waldman interview
Click here to hear an interview with Katy Waldman who wrote the New Yorker article about my lawsuit. The last 30 minutes of the podcast are where you can hear what she thinks.