The Dangers of Cowriting
If you are part of the Indie Bookworld you will probably have seen the plagiarism allegation that completely pulled the rug from under my feet last weekend. If you haven’t, you can see JM Darhower’s blogpost about it here. My statement addressing the situation here. And you can find Elle’s response, which she told me to share here. Now you are all caught up, I’ll move on to the reason I’m sharing all of this with you. I want to do everything I can to stop this happening to so
Statement
I'm posting this in regards to a plagiarism allegation that's made regarding The Don: Sebastiano, which I co-authored with Elle Raven. I woke up to an email from another author on Sunday morning informing me that she believed her book was plagiarised by Elle and I. Seeing the document she had attached to her email with the passages from The Don absolutely gutted me.
Every one of those excerpts were written by my co-author, Elle Raven. If you read any of my other work, you’ll