Poll: Should plagiarist Quentin Rowan write a book about his crimes?
Last week, Quentin Rowan, the disgraced serial plagiarist whose spy novel Assassin of Secrets proved to be massively plagiarized from dozens of other sources, wrote an essay at The Fix comparing… 4 / Read more »
Lenore Hart shows how not to respond to plagiarism charges
In the face of overwhelming evidence, novelist Lenore Hart has vociferously denied charges that she plagiarized large parts of her historical novel about Edgar Allan Poe’s wife, The Raven’s Bride… 1 / Read more »
The plagiarist speaks: Quentin Rowan, disgraced author, on his “obsession” and “death-wish”
The story of bookseller, poet, and plagiarist Quentin Rowan, who wrote the heavily plagiarized spy thriller Assassin of Secrets under the pseudonym Q.R. Markham, keeps getting stranger—after Rowan apologized for his… 1 / Read more »
Was Quentin Rowan just “sampling” the work of others?
Most of you have probably read by now about Assassin of Secrets, Q.R. Markham (aka Quentin Rowan)’s debut thriller that lifted choice bits from spy novels and political thrillers. The… 6 / Read more »