I just walked in after the book world blew up today!
I have posted twice about a book (which was on my kindle, but I haven’t read) called Amazingly Broken by Jordin Williams. It looked good, and the reviews were good. Well it’s no wonder it was good! She allegedly plagiarized Author Jamie McGuire (Beautiful Disaster) and Tammara Webber (Easy). (I loved both of these books. My reviews from last year are linked below) In fact, “she” wasn’t even a she at all! She was supposedly, according to Jamie McGuire, a HE!
Amazon has taken down the book. I have taken down my post (and giveaway). I apologize for being one of the many bloggers to promote this book. If you have purchased this book, I have heard that Amazon is refunding. While I NEVER promote returning books (c’mon, they give you a sample. If you buy it beyond the sample, you should have to keep it), in this case…RETURN IT. This guy was #58 in the Amazon store. He should not be getting money for stealing!
For more details, please see the original post that started it: http://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/the-plagiarizing-of-tammara-webbers-easy-by-jordin-williams/
Shit like this just pisses me off. I hate that the world is full of lying, cheating, assholes. Why can’t we all just get along, be nice and not steal!?!?!?
Cerian Halford says
I did the same thing! I promoted it and had read it. I was going to post my review tonight, but obviously I’m not going to now. It’s just so disgraceful. But I definitely want to read Easy and Beautiful Disaster now, because I actually enjoyed the book.
Karen H says
That you so much for letting me know I just requested a refund. I had only started it and I deleted it from my Kindle. That is horrible that he did that.
Julie Arriaga says
This makes me want to buy an extra copy of Beautiful Disaster and Easy to show some support for REAL authors!
Jacqui Minchin says
All the way thru the book I kept thinking I have read this before… And I have many many times, because Beautiful Disaster and Easy are my GO TO Books. Great Idea Julie Arriaga Im going buy both books now. I only have them in paperback anyway, should have them close at all times.
Martina Z. says
I’ve read both Easy and Beautiful Disaster and I LOVED THEM! Beautiful Disaster is one of my top 3 NA books. I put Amazingly Broken by Jordin Williams on my TBR list when I saw it on your blog (the cover and also very good rating on GR caught my eye). When I saw the posts about plagiarism I was like “Hmmm sorry, w-h-a-t????” I don’t feel sorry just for the authors but for the bloggers also ’cause you all promoted that book and I know many people put this book on their TBR list just because of it (I know I did). No, I said it wrong. I don’t feel sorry, I’m pissed. I feel sick at the possibility that someone copy-pased words from two books I love and wanted to get away with it (and make money, lots of money). It makes me wonder about how many plagiarism go unnoticed, undiscovered? That’s just sad. And this “Jordin B. Williams” also publishes under the names Emily Curran and Liz Thomas and Jordin Bishop and james Bishop and God knows what name she also uses, or he uses. That’s just… blah!
June M. says
I seriously do not get why people do things like this! Just because he/she/whatever oes not have the talent to write does NOT give them the right to steal from others. This is the second time in just a week or so that something like this has been broght to light (the other was a word for word copying with only the h/h names changed and put up as a free work-in-progress type book on a website.
Unfortunately, these people will probaly continue to change names and start again doing the same thing.
Wendy S says
Not to be flippant or anything but this whole thing is starting to sound like a bad Jerry Springer episode: Who’s your book daddy?