Publishing has become a merciless industry these days.
Crime author Patricia Cornwell responded to ‘cyber-stalking’ by insisting on enforcement of a 2000 injunction against author Leslie R. Sachs who began writing on his Web site (which one of our readers has tracked down,thanks SarahL) that one of her novels, “The Last Precinct,” had a plot much like the one in his “The Virginia Ghost Murders.”
She has asked the court to force him to stop writing “defamatory and contemptuous” material about her on the Internet, including calling her racist and claiming she stole part of his novel. Washington Post reports.
Makes you wonder….here’s his blog…I think
The REAL Patricia Cornwell Biography – Her Crimes, Bribery, Scandals and Mental Illness –
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From the guy’s web site: “Dr Les Sachs is one of the most highly educated citizens from the United States.”
Well ok then! Everything seems to be in order here!
Why is he harassing Patricia Cornwall? Shouldn’t he be annoying the crap out of some poor librarian somewhere?
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It would be hysterical if the guy weren’t serious… Because he’s serious, it’s just plain scary. My favorite line: “extremely bizarre, right-wing, fascist and Neo-Nazi lesbian”. Like he needed to put the term “bizarre” in that adjective line-up.
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I am suprised that Cornwell filed suit. Left alone no one would take the authors website seriously. In fact it would probably get no hits. Now it is getting thousands of hits and the guy is clearly a loon. If you search his name on Google you will come up with some letters that he wrote to academic journals that show up in JSTOR.
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“Shouldn’t he be annoying the crap out of some poor librarian somewhere?”
I’m sure he is doing that as well.
Cornwell or Cromwell?
Just checking.
Re:Cornwell or Cromwell?
oops much obliged.