Home Health Care Service Providers offer a wide range of services for the elderly….

Personally I think Lanaia/Mary and Cheryl are one and the same person. BOTH have written Forever Knight fanfic, BOTH are the only regular posters on Lanaia’s Yahoo group (Cheryl uses two different accounts to post), BOTH claim to be witches, and their grammar and spelling issues are identical. I’ll be Cheryl’s “Husband” is Cheryl as well.

I also think Lanaia/Mary’s claims of disability (not to mention 6 misacarriages–usually after 3 doctors tell you to use birth control) are a lie. She and her husband are both apparently “wheelchair bound”, but the ONE photo of her up on a website shows them BOTH standing. Things that make you go “hmmmmmmm…..”

I’ve been searching for more information about what has inevitably occured since 2007 with this issue, and haven’t found much. If anyone knows anything, I’d be interested to read it.

I did find this, though: http://www.mysticboard.com/introduce_yourself/search.php?search_author=lanaia74

So now Lanaia/Mary is not only a witch, she is an Empath (if she is empathic, why couldn’t she sense her ghost writer was a fraud?????).

It's a bit mean

Although impressively accurate. Thanks for posting that link, Gennita. I had never seen that Encyclopedia Dramatica, but it’s a fitting forum for this drama, isn’t it? I found some of the links quite instructive, actually.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Lanaia_Lee

It’s a bit mean (but the article nicely sums up all the sordid details, with links) but I thought Jane should know her name was mentioned in there too.

I think the cover makes me question the whole deal. I think it's one thing to have similarities in recipes although how many would think to put avocado in chocolate pudding, but another to have the similiarities in recipes and book cover???

Yeah, the cover is definitely a ‘things that make you go hmm’ similarity. And really, as a devoted foodie, I can tell you that coming up with enough recipes like that to fill up a whole cookbook, having them be nutritionally sound and balanced, etc. is quite a feat (lots of chemistry involved, for one thing). Forgive me for being a bit cynical about the idea that Seinfeld did the whole project by herself. It feels a bit like packaging again.

On the bright side, maybe it’ll alert a few more unsuspecting newbies about the sketchy goings on in the lives of fee-sucking writers’ agents like CH.

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070919/NRSTAFF/709190301/-1/LIFE02

I think the article is supposed to come out next week?

So who knows what’ll happen with this whole story now…

The Burlington paper, which originally had a story about her too has taken that page down. I haven’t seen any comment by them on this whole mess.

Have had no reply from anyone at News-Record and it’s creep-making to think they may publish something more next week.

But . . . I gotta say . . . two book covers with cooks hiding carrots behind their backs AND similar recipes???? I’m with you. All that PLUS chocolate and avocado stretches the bounds of my credulity a little too far.

I was following this thread and got an email alerting me to Bernita’s posting. I had just finished reading the story in the WSJ and PL so added this to the thread behind Bernita’s post.

Jessica Seinfeld, wife of comedian Jerry, published a cookbook titled Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food (HarperCollins) on October 5. After Oprah invited Jessica to guest star on her show on October 8th, the book took off.

Then Running Press, an imprint owned by Perseus Books, contacted HarperCollins. The independent press was concerned about “similarities between Deceptively Delicious and RP’s The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals by Missy Chase Lapine, published in April.

Jessica Seinfeld strenuously denies any plagiarism, and it appears that HarperCollins is accepting her at her word. They plan to sell as many as 1.5 million copies of the book between now and Chrismas.

According to today’s Publishers Lunch, Perseus CEO David Steinberger says Missy Lapine “first raised concerns about the Seinfeld book this spring after seeing promotional materials for the book. Steinberger says they were ‘struck by what seemed to be uncanny similarities…. One of the most obvious was that their cover had the same image, a drawing of what looks like a mom hiding carrots behind her back’.”

Steinberger also says after his publishing house contacted Harper by letter in May, they were told some changes would be made, including alterations to the cover. The carrots were moved to a cutting board in the final cover for Seinfeld’s book.

It will be interesting to see how this situation resolves itself.