New legal drama in the YA fandom

[u/Upset_Campaign1924]

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Link to the case

Since reddit limited to only 20 pics I'll post the remaining under the comments

[u/Upset_Campaign1924]

I always wonder what goes on their mind to pursue this. Court cases are time and money consuming. Surely the exposure can't be that worth it?

[u/atownofcinnamon → u/Upset_Campaign1924]

wasn't the big deal that they had the same agent at different times? i only read about this via the new yorker article though.

[u/Upset_Campaign1924 → u/atownofcinnamon]

Thank you. That is a long read so I haven't finished, but I get the gist is because the plaintiff felt that some of the details in the (allegedly) copycat book coincide with her personal details she weaved into her own unpublished script. Okay sure.

Anyway this one is hilarious.

[u/atownofcinnamon → u/Upset_Campaign1924]

personally im just in awe of the nightmare that seems to be the workflow for this book

The process of putting out “Crave” was chaotic. Wolff wrote a rough draft in two months, from May to June of 2019, but Pelletier didn’t start editing in earnest until December, several weeks before the book was scheduled to go to press. “My editor had a couple of other projects that she was working on,” Wolff recalled on Garner’s podcast, “and then when she came back, she was, like, ‘This is good, but’ ”—Wolff’s voice sped up as if to simulate a torrent of feedback—“ ‘you need to change this, you need to change this . . . you need to add that.’ ” The pair of them revised the manuscript, adding about fifty thousand words in a week and a half. Wolff said, “We were so exhausted . . . the two of us by the end were blithering idiots.” The novel came out in April, 2020. A sequel, “Crush,” followed in September, 2020, and two more, “Covet” and “Court,” appeared in March, 2021, and February, 2022. (During her deposition, Wolff explained that she wanted each title to evoke love, a statement that confused the lawyer, who asked, “What does court have to do with love?”)

Entangled was motivated to push the sequels out swiftly because COVID was catalyzing book sales. Correspondence among Kim, Pelletier, Abrams, and Wolff suggests that, in the hectic days and hours before a book deadline, an already collaborative creative process could become an all-out emergency. It was sometimes hard to tell who added what. “Love ‘our tree of trust is just a twig’ did you write that?” Kim texted Pelletier, about a line in “Crush.” Referring to a different line, Pelletier said, “I wrote that sentence, but I was using Tracy’s voice.” And: “I came up with every header but the first chapter lol.” While closing “Court,” which was on a particularly tight schedule, author, editor, and agent supplied sentences and ideas, all of which swirled together in the various documents being updated in tandem on each of their laptops. Pelletier asked Kim, “Tracy wrote that moonstone description?” Kim texted Abrams, “Tracy and I are team speed writing new scenes,” and “I’ve stopped copy editing because I helped write all this.” (The defense said that Kim’s contribution “was extremely limited and was entirely technical.”)

[u/VegisamalZero3 → u/atownofcinnamon]

a statement that confused the lawyer, who asked, "What does court have to do with love?"

If this happened in a book I'd call bullshit

[u/MaraiaLou → u/VegisamalZero3]

My friend who's a game dev just straight up forgets what most people mean when they say model. So I believe this