Scammers and spammers are everywhere!
So you want to be a writer, you love to tell a tale, or you love to write prose, whatever it may be, your love for writing knows no boundaries. When you let loose your words, you weave a tale that captures your audience. You wonder if you could do this well world wide? Just be careful who you get involved with when you take that step as there are people who will take you for a ride as in the case of this fantasy writer, Lanaia Lee who got conned by Christopher Hill, note the name, because he's still at large:
"Christopher Hill of Hill & Hill Literary Agency was an Edinburgh-based fee-charger who went to extraordinary lengths to convince his clients that he was working on their behalf, including fabricating reams of documentation: submission records, publisher acceptance emails, even publishing contracts." [written by Victoria Strauss, an article entitled "Victoria Strauss -- Christopher Hill Redux" on Thursday, October 11, 2007 at blogspot.com]
The crux of this is that Ms. Lee trusted Mr. Hill to ghostwrite for her, the only thing is he plagiarized some one's work, unbeknownst to her. While she herself is a talented writer, she didn't take the time to check the sources and/or do her homework before putting her name on the work he claimed to have done on her behalf.
Because she seemed to be in a hurry to be a published author, instead of honing her craft of writing and getting there - the published books and the kudos - the right way, through her own work, she saw 'dollar signs, fame, et al' and letting herself get influenced by Hill. Yet another case of plagiarism.
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