NOW: MZB Book.WAS: JMS Top Secret Projects??? FROM JMS

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From: "jsmith" <jsmith1998 at hotmail.com>
Date: 11 Jan 2001 08:09:03 -0700
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"Ask Marion Zimmer Bradley, who lost a whole
NOVEL due to EXACTLY this sort of thing."

What happened to MZB? What novel was lost?

I had never heard about that. I of course have heard about singers being
sued all the time over songs......

Ashamed of my ignorance........






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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 11 Jan 2001 22:11:20 -0700
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>What happened to MZB? What novel was lost?
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She wrote an entire novel that she had to scuttle because a fan had come up
with the same idea, wrote up something on it, and there was a threat of lawsuit
since MZB had presumably had access to it.

So the publisher dropped the novel rather than face the possibility of action,
even though in the long run she probably would've prevailed.

 jms

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