Novelist’s Online Mea Culpa About Plagiarizing Her First Book Pulled – for Even More Plagiarism
thewrap.comtold the AP. According to Diamond, the plagiarized sections lifted from sources detailing the history of plagiarism.“Earlier this morning Lit Hub published a very personal essay by Jumi Bello about her experience writing a debut novel, her struggles with severe mental illness, the self-imposed pressures a young writer can feel to publish, and her own acts of plagiarism,” wrote Diamond in a statement published Monday afternoon on Lit Hub’s website. “Because of inconsistencies in the story and, crucially, a further incident of plagiarism in the published piece, we decided to pull the essay.”In the retracted essay, said the AP, Bello wrote that she sought out “literary descriptions” of pregnancy, having not experienced it herself.“I tell myself I’m just borrowing and changing the language.
I tell myself I will rewrite these parts later during the editorial phase. I will make this story mine again,” read one passage.Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group, was set to publish “The Leaving” in July 2022.
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