The Sex Made Her Do It
By Jane • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News • •New York Press debuted a new sex column yesterday authored by Claudia Lonow who, rather than thinking up her own weird sex question or asking her friends to make one up, copied the questions from a 2006 Dan Savage column. Savage Love is published online in The Onion’s A.V. Club and, according to Wikipedia is “internationally syndicated.”
I guess it makes sense to copy from the best, but I wish more people would pay attention to my top ten tips on how to be a plagiarist. Your career might be longer than a day.
The copying was noticed almost immediately and yesterday the New York Press accepted Claudia Lonow’s resignation. Apparently “she was unaware that using questions from Savage’s column was a breach of journalism ethics. She has offered her resignation, and we’ve accepted it. We apologize to our readers, and to Dan Savage, for this error in judgment. ”
Via SBTB.
Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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I remember her from “Knot’s Landing,” years ago. What a shame.
What a loser. Is it really that tough to think of a weird sex question? Maybe I’m perverted, but a few spring to mind. ;P
LOL, Jan!
I can see running out of ideas after a long, long time, but to not even have a column for the first time out? Yikes. Why sign up for the job if you don’t have the vaguest notion what to write?