Stephanie Meyer Plagiarized Book

August 20. 2009

Stephanie Meyer

"Twilight" author Stephanie Meyer, has plagiarized the preexisting, copyrighted book "The Nocturne" by indie writer, Jordan Scott, for her later released, best-selling tome, "Breaking The Dawn." It is the fourth book in the "Twilight" series.

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She has been sued by a law firm representing Scott, who wrote her book as a teenager, copyrighted it, published excerpts of it on her website, then released it for sale.

Lawyers for Scott prepared a 15-page document that was released to the internet, outlining the similarities. I read the document and agree, there are distinct and substantial similarities that cannot be classified as anything else other than copyright infringement.

For example, Scott's preexisting book "The Nocturne" has a storyline of a woman getting pregnant for a vampire and the child in her womb making her ill. It also contains a post wedding sex scene on the beach. Two years later, Stephanie Meyer's book contains the exact same things. There are other detailed similarities as well.

Meyer clearly read and plagiarized Scott's preexisting book. There are too many distinct duplications for it to be a coincidence. Sometimes authors get writer's block and use other people's work to solve the problem. Meyer, like so many other Hollywood infringers, didn't need the money, but wanted all the glory, cash and credit.