Posted on 05/11/2022 3:03:10 PM PDT by thegagline
A writer's essay explaining why she plagiarized parts of what would have been her debut novel has been deleted after it was revealed she copied that as well.
Jumi Bello's book The Leaving was scheduled to come out on July 12 and had appeared on several 'most anticipated' lists, according to Publisher's Market, when its publisher Riverhead Books suddenly scrapped it in December.
The 30-year-old has now revealed the reason the book was abruptly canceled when it was in its final stages was because she admitted to the New York City-based publishing company - an imprint of Penguin - she had plagiarized parts of the novel. *** ‘The Leaving' would have chronicled a young black woman's unexpected pregnancy, but as Bello explained in an essay posted to Literary Hub on Monday, she had never been pregnant and had searched online for descriptions of what the process was like.
She wrote in a post entitled 'I Plagiarized Parts of My Debut Novel. Here's Why' that she had intended to change these passages, but felt pressured to finish her book as she attended graduate school and struggled with her mental health.
But shortly after she published the 4,500-word essay to Literary Hub, other writers and publications noticed some similarities between Bello's description of the origins of plagiarism and the work of others.
Within hours, Literary Hub took down the post, and said in a statement: 'Because of inconsistencies in the story and, crucially, a further incident of plagiarism in the published piece, we decided to pull the essay.'
DailyMail.com has also reached out to Bello for comment.
Jumi Bello, 30, admitted to plagiarizing parts of her debut novel in an essay posted online Monday - which was also found to have been plagiarized.
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Considering the circumstances, she is up for a Nobel Prize in literature
Or a position writing for the Washington Post.
Or run for President while hiding in the basement.
I have zero tolerance for plagiarism, in academia or otherwise. She should be skewered.
Needs to sign up with Plagiarisers Anonymous.
LMAO OMG GTFO.
Given her intersectionality, she’ll get a pass. I recall a presidential candidate from 1988 who didn’t let plagiarism charges slow him down.
She wrote an email to apologize to her publisher for plagiarizing about plagiarism, but it was found she copied it off the internet.
“She wrote that she was struggling to meet the demands of the publisher”
Deadlines are racist. They are a holdover of White European culture.
Well truthfully if you’re going to apologize for plagiarizing you kind of have to go meta and plagiarize that. Never pass up the joke I say. Pretty sure I stole that from somebody.
“But he said he was not angry at Bello, saying instead that her writing style of copying from other’s work just to rephrase it later would inevitably lead to plagiarism.”
That’s it. No need to be mad. It’s just a writing style.
“Woke author plagiarizes letter apologizing for plagiarism in her debut novel.
Considering the circumstances, she is up for a Nobel Prize in literature”
The woke author’s letter apologizes for plagiarism in her first novel! She’ll prob get a Nobel prize in literature, imo.
Plagiarizing is so lazy. To get caught you pretty much have to copy verbatim. Just rewriting it different words will let you skate.
I have an idea for the opening of a new novel for our times. How does this sound?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness”
There is software that detects plagiarism. College kids get caught paraphrasing stuff all the time. A recent college grad should have known that.
There was a time when such behavior would make one an outcast in the writing community. Now they get a full-blown puff piece written about them, including their life story and struggles.
Originality is also racist.
Really, expecting her to actually write a novel is racism and slavery.
She should win the National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize just for saying that she's thought about writing a novel. Being a Strong, Proud Black Woman, the descendant of slaves, I'm sure it's a fine novel, even in its unwritten form.
She wanted to do the right thing but those big corporate publishers put so much pressure and stress on her that she had mental health issues. LOL. Classic Lib excuse-making.
She submitted this blurb to her satirical literary agent:
“Jumi Bello, the first African-American president of the UNLV Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and ... Las Vegas. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, she attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor...”
because the first time she actually had to perform on her own?
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