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Saturday, October 13th, 2007An aspiring horror writer is accused of murdering and dismembering his girlfriend. Her torso was found in his closet, a leg in the refrigerator and bones in a cereal box… The name of his draft novel? Cannibalistic Instincts
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Want to be an author but can’t be bothered to actually write something? Why not hire a ghost-writer? 
Genius! But just make sure that your ghost-writer hasn’t blatantly plagiarised the work of a popular author…
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JK Rowling’s publisher is suing a community group in India for approximately £27,000 (US $51,000) for the heinous copyright infraction of creating a papier-mâché replica of The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for a religious festival. So I assume that parents will to have to pay royalties if their kids decide to dress up like Voltemort at Halloween…
8:26 pm on 14-Oct-07
ugh…that horror story is incredibly gross and unfortunate.
Horror writing is one thing, but a horror memoir is uncalled for.
4:27 am on 15-Oct-07
Talk about field research, pretty gross!
In terms of Ms. JKR - geeze, you’d think she has enough money by now with one of the top grossing franchises in human history! Stories like Potter become part of the collective uncounscious over time, and to a degree are like public property (Harry Potter cakes for birthdays, kids dressing up like wizards etc - a generation of kids having their imaginations shaped by these stories). She has gone bonkers and I hope the Deathly Hallows knock some sense into her!
Also - grrrreat blog by the way. You seem like a fine reclusive urbanite and I shall now be a frequent visitor to your rather blindingly pink pages!
5:54 pm on 17-Oct-07
RC: welcome aboard, it’s a strange story to say the least.
Westcoast Walker: thanks for visiting, I think that JK and her cronies need to chill out a bit, they should be glad that people are using imagery from the stories in such a way. I’d say that it’s more like free advertising for the books than anything else. And the pink pages will probably only last a few more weeks, we’ll see.