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Level -> Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 3:21:29 AM)
quote: The gripping memoir of "Margaret B. Jones" received critical raves. It turns out it should have been reviewed as fiction. The author of "Love and Consequences," a critically acclaimed autobiography about growing up among gangbangers in South Los Angeles, acknowledged Monday that she made up everything in her just-published book. "Jones" is actually Margaret Seltzer. Instead of being a half-white, half-Native American who grew up in a foster home and once sold drugs for the Bloods street gang, she is a white woman who was raised with her biological family in Sherman Oaks and graduated from Campbell Hall, an exclusive private school in the San Fernando Valley. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-author4mar04,0,3476910.story

Politesub53 -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 3:41:58 AM)
Okay this may sound harsh but to me cases like this are obtaining money by deception and should be treated as such. Publishers should be held accountable for checking facts.

xBullx -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 5:01:26 AM)
Level, I've decided that we should label you the official News Anchor of CollarMe. You break more news to us than CNN. Hell, I wouldn't doubt Dateline monitors your threads for topic ideas. Bull

kittinSol -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 5:55:01 AM)
It's been suggested, xBull - but some of us think Level's choice of news stories is too selective. To say the least [sm=biggrin.gif] .

bipolarber -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 8:47:23 AM)
"All the news that gives you fits."

silvermuse -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 8:55:41 AM)
Politesub generally speaking (going from contracts I have) the publisher doesn't check the facts and states in contracts that they are not responsible for any legal issues that might arise from the book being published. So if the book is published under false pretenses the readers might actually have to sue the author, not the publisher... They do, however, have clauses in there that normally state that if this is a work of fiction it's you're own work. I don't know how contracts for non fiction books are worded though ...so if there's a clause in there about 'true rendition' or something of that nature, I wouldn't know. The only non fiction book contract I have keeps to the same 'sole work of the author/s' clause. In fact this clause might be something that has caught Cassie Edwards out, a reasonably well known romance author, she's been caught copying passages from research books and papers into her romance novels, to use as descriptions.

Level -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 3:33:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: xBullx Level, I've decided that we should label you the official News Anchor of CollarMe. You break more news to us than CNN. Hell, I wouldn't doubt Dateline monitors your threads for topic ideas. Bull I do like the news, Bull [X(]

Level -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 3:34:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol It's been suggested, xBull - but some of us think Level's choice of news stories is too selective. To say the least [sm=biggrin.gif] . I wonder how much of a reflection that is on me, or on those that believe that..... [8\|]

Sinergy -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 4:29:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Level quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol It's been suggested, xBull - but some of us think Level's choice of news stories is too selective. To say the least [sm=biggrin.gif] . I wonder how much of a reflection that is on me, or on those that believe that..... [8\|] Anybody who doesnt like the news that Level posts is certainly welcome to fill in the gaps with their own news posts. Sinergy

kittinSol -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 4:36:51 PM)
It's obviously a reflection on me: you tend to post from the other side of the equation from me. But hey! I wasn't complaining, more like being my horrid teasing self. Forgive me if it was offensive.

Level -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 4:52:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sinergy quote: ORIGINAL: Level quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol It's been suggested, xBull - but some of us think Level's choice of news stories is too selective. To say the least [sm=biggrin.gif] . I wonder how much of a reflection that is on me, or on those that believe that..... [8\|] Anybody who doesnt like the news that Level posts is certainly welcome to fill in the gaps with their own news posts. Sinergy Agreed. [:)]

Level -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 4:55:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol It's obviously a reflection on me: you tend to post from the other side of the equation from me. But hey! I wasn't complaining, more like being my horrid teasing self. Forgive me if it was offensive. Ah, nothing to forgive, my friend. [;)] I do try to do one thing when I pick a news item; to choose something interesting. Of course, not all of them will interest every person. And I suppose it's human nature for my personal beliefs to influence what I choose, at times. But I do think I'm pretty even-handed [:D]

kittinSol -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 4:57:41 PM)
Mouah, then :-) .

dincubus -> RE: Another fictional non-fiction book (3/4/2008 6:10:04 PM)
Breaking news.... Level likes the news and is insane.. *checks his card.. yep he is nuts... but then again i just listen to what my rice krispies tell me to do

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