Hat tips: B Thoughtful, and PG
I received an email tip about Boyer’s plagiarism of Matheson’s work a few days ago, which came hot on the heels of a couple of other tips. Other than being extremely busy with Fall chores such as reseeding half our lawn, and patching our driveway, I don’t have a great excuse for not reporting on it before now.
Brian Keene is back in action after his heart attack, and wrote his own blog entry about Boyer’s shenanigans. Aside from his own thoughts about Boyer, it refers to Rick Moore’s letter writing campaign to the Indiana Attorney General.
Since Boyer is by all accounts poor as a church mouse, perhaps the threat of jail time for committing consumer fraud will prove to be more of a deterrent than civil suits for plagiarism. Not only has he stolen work from other authors and fraudulently resold it as his own, but also he has gypped people out of their hard earned money for books they ordered, but never received. I’ve seens some old email exchanges regarding the latter. These involve all sorts of lame excuses about why the merchandise was never sent, stretching out for months, before Boyer finally tells his victims to fuck off, and claims his email address no longer works (although he continues to use it).
If you have been a victim of Boyer’s, please consider writing your own letter to the Indiana AG. Instructions are posted both in Brian’s entry, and in Rick’s.
*UPDATE*
I just received word that Boyer also plagiarized a 16 year old girl named Margaret Li. Details are here. He does seem to steal a fair amount of material from Storymania.
He is such an unprincipled douchecanoe.
The thing is, too, that I have spent what seems like forever telling newbie writers “Don’t file copyrights on your unpublished stuff; it looks unprofessional, and nobody ever steals it” and then he does shit like this. On the other hand, he’s stealing lots of copyrighted stuff, too, so.
http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/19783/Brian-Keene-discusses-David-Boyer
Countdown to thread lock…
. . . or deletion. I checked my feeds around 3:45, and all I saw was “deleted.” Thought at first it was some new Yuku way of conveying a 404 – page not found error, but it wasn’t. I’m taking screengrabs.
Apparently, Matt nuked the entire thread. Which is funny, given that much of the thread was Jeff Strand and others insisting that Matt didn’t do things like that.
It wasn’t the only thread he nuked; the one Jeani started is gone as well. Since I have comments about it on two different entries, I’ll post screengrabs for both of the nuked SL threads in a new entry.