THIS IS A HUGE DEAL!

Point #1 – Ms. Lapine showed her book to HarperCollins (Ms. Seinfeld�s publisher) 6 months before Ms. Seinfeld. Ms. Lapine�s publisher had already made Ms. Seinfeld�s publisher change the book cover (which easily resembled Ms. Lapine�s book cover).

Point #2 – Ms. Seinfeld has the same agent from the William Morris Agency as the Harvard sophomore student who recently lost her book contract for copying another�s novel.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12594078/

Coincidence? You be the judge!

Holly you are an embarassment to logical women everywhere…if you think that Jennifer Walsh pushes her authors to plagiarize…well words fail me. The reality is that recipes like folktales travel through society.

TWO books which are:

both cookbooks
shown to the same publisher
in the same year
with the same UNIQUE recipes
on the same UNIQUE cooking concept
by authors who live in the same city
with nearly IDENTICAL book covers
both pitched to OPRAH

IS JUST A COINCIDENCE. No way, I smell a rat!

Make that Holly you’re an embarrassment to rational human beings everywhere, male or female. The manuscript for Seinfeld’s book was written in 2005, long before she would have had any access to Lapine’s book. Since the book wasn’t out until six months before Seinfeld’s came out, plagiarism would have required the complicity of Harper Collins. They would have had to reject Lapine’s manuscript, and then urge Seinfeld to inject Lapine’s ideas into her own cookbook.

The recipes aren’t unique either. The cooking concept is even further from unique. Have you ever integrated pureed vegetables into anything to mask their taste? Doesn’t take a great genius. The only one who smells like a rat is you.

This IS a HUGE deal to me. I put out the money to buy Seinfeld’s book only to find that it’s a virtual copy of the Lapine book I already own! Who’s going to reimburse me for the cost of the book? What were they thinking???