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Sometimes the planets align perfectly.

That they think it’s okay to taunt us like this makes me very motivated to find a way to make it clear that it’s not.

Wow. Can that feather be construed as a quill pen?

Maybe they ‘did it for the lulz’?  And even if they didn’t, I’m sure laughing! 

Also, is anyone else disturbed by the pleasantly curly font and white feather wrapped around “Savage”?  Doesn’t seem very savage to me!

speechless

Good lord.  Who do I write to, dammit?

I doubt they will have a two for one special…

Two Savage Wrongs never make a Savage Right.

Seriously, who do we write to?

The irony, it burns.

And:  So Weird - one of my dreams last night featured an argument with someone for not understanding why I’d be infuriated about Cassie Edwards.  (I think it has to do with the fact that my local Borders has had her books featured on an end cap for the month of February - every time I’ve seen it it’s made me mad.)

That was the first time I’ve been able to open up the tracking document...Holy Cow but that’s some depressingly impressive work!

The cover that snarked itself.

At least, unlike the cover of Falcon Moon, no one had the chutzpah to put “never before in print” on the cover.

Omg! Here you witches go again on another hunt. You’ve just insulted millions of Cassie Edwards fans beyond the pale for if there is a disturbance in the force do they not burn? This must raise the percentage of posts about Edwards pre-witch hunt to o.9%! Blah blah snark is evil blah blah blah story from my snarky past blah blah you’re obsessed etc.

So, who is going to take one for the team and actually read it?

Is Dorchester saying “come and get me Bitches?”

Talk about having brass ones.

So… who do we write to?

I actually picked it up in the library last week.  Made it through the first chapter and gave up.  I couldn’t be bothered to look for the “intimate” passages.

How did she ever become a best-seller?

Ya know...I have never in my life considered burning a book. I’m tempted now. REALLY-REALLY tempted! I’ll send a Purple Heart to whoever takes one for the bitches and reads it.

KTG said it. This be the cover that snarked itself.

And the irony? It really is all too deeeeeelicious a bargain for the value price of $4.99!

Where are the ferrets ? Somebody read this and tell us where they are.

Jill

Oh! I thought for a moment that was the title of your Cassie Edwards PDF document. 

And even she’s getting the no man-titty cover treatment now?

Bookstores end up returning soiled books for full credit. “Soiled” certainly describes the Cassie Edwards reputation and oeuvre.

As for whom to write to, her publisher, and Edwards herself, either directly or in care of her publisher. The letters should start “You ought to be ashamed...”

But alas, neither is.

All right.

*rolls up sleeves*

I’ll read it for the Bitches.

*winces*

Do I have to buy my own copy, dudes?

Barely-topical, but I ran across a Cassie Edwards book in a thrift store, and decided to thumb through it to see if I noticed any tone shifts that might’ve indicated plagiarism. (It wasn’t really interesting enough to do that for very long.)

What I remember, though, is that whoever dropped off the book had left in a bookmark-- a cardboard strip from the top of some sort of blister pack that hangs in drugstores.

For yeast infection ointment, in an economy 3-pack.

I don’t know what to infer from that, but I bet someone out there might just have an idea.

...well, I managed to wade through Savage Quest (2007); results are here. (Note the obligatory Paul Tolme material toward the end.)

I looked this up in my Byron program to see if it was a reprint.  It appears to be new.  And it seems she doesn’t have one out this month, she has THREE:

Savage Wrongs, Savage Lies and Savage Darkness.

Go figure.

Diane

Sorry, I don’t understand what’s wrong with what looks to me like a very innocuous cover. Yes, I know about the whole Cassie Edwards brouhaha, but what has that to do with the cover.  Confirmation word:your65.  Not for a while yet.

but what has that to do with the cover?

*cough*The title*cough*

Lilith - you are more woman than I!

I know this is pretty obvious and has been covered before, more or less--but it’s freakin 2008. The pub is still allowing “savage?” (which is worse, the titles or the plagiarism? Oh, right, because CE is part savage. And these are historicals. I’m waiting for wetback love or kike longings or mick nights or kraut passion (the last three I would be eligible to write with a free pass). I’ll write The Kike and the Kraut and see if my editor likes the idea.

I’m not even very politically correct, but I believe in not being insensitive.

I still don’t get it.  ALL Cassie Edwards books are called Savage Something.

I’ll write The Kike and the Kraut and see if my editor likes the idea.

Aw, man, now you’ve got me laughing at things I probably shouldn’t.

KS--part Savage, part Viking, part Bohunk and part Frog.

nuclear69: I know it has nothing to do with this post, but maybe someone wants to include it in a book?

Lilith,

If you’re willing to read it and report back, I’m willing to buy it for you.

Email me at ann @ annbruce.net.

Sandra: it’s the “wrongs” portion of the title that’s all too appropriate.

Bangs head against wall.

All right--Ann, thanks for the offer. But I did end up ordering it from Amazon, mostly because I feel the need to “give back” to the Bitchery. As weird and altruistic as that sort-of-sounds.

So. I’ve bit the bullet and ordered the book. It should arrive on Tuesday of next week, I have two birthdays and a court appearance to make next week, but I’ll try to read it in between and will report back ASAP.

*headdesk, moaning* What have I gotten myself into? Lord. See what I do for you Bitches?

sandra, on top of the use of “wrongs” in the title, which is just deliciously ironic, there’s that wonderfully-placed feather, which is more than a little evocative of a quill pen. In other words, the cover looks remarkably like it’s taunting everyone involved in uncovering the plagiarism scandal.

(Of course, it’s probably a coincidence, since the books would’ve had their covers long before the scandal broke, yes?)

Silly cover artist, savages didn’t use quill pens.  They didn’t have written language!

And Ciar?  I would totally read “Wetback Love”.

On amazon, a reviewer states that this is actually a reprint of ‘Wild Ectasy’, and is just a name change.

A desperate attempt to confuse the readers, if it is true. 

Of course, I couldn’t find a synopsis anywhere!!!  Doesn’t matter, I haven’t read her stuff in over a decade once I got bored with her writing.

Debby, don’t you mean you got bored of her copying style?

for people that actally enjoy her books good for u but all i ever hear is about cassie edwards this and cassie edwards that.  Leave her be just like every one else she is making a living.  And for those that say things against authors then dont read.

Jolen Ks

by the way it is a reprint she redid some of her book from the wild series and put them in a savage. so there

snarkhunter…

I would have said that, if I hadn’t gotten bored with her books long before any of this.  Basically, I prefer more storyline and character and originality in books, and all of hers were the same old same old.

Little did I realize back then (mid-1980’s) how same old they were.

together65:  that would be one heck of a party, wouldn’t it?

Aw, we have a troll. Lookit how cute it is!

(Not you, Debby. Obviously.)

Have now whipped through most of Savage Whispers from 1989. The current PDF has a cite for one passage from N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain, but of course there are waaaaay more of them in there.

Dorchester’s historic romance bookclub sent out a “Savage” title this month.  I didn’t even look past the author and the title and put it right back in the box to return.  Even before finding out that she is originality-retarded, I thought her books just plain sucked.  BORING!

Wow.  Just...wow.

I would actually be tempted to get it(used) to see it it’s just as wrong as the title suggests, but I already took one for the team with Savage Honor, and am still in recovery.