Plagiarism Update

During the past week, my online time has been devoted to removing reviews, checking reviews, and sending apologies. I am, I believe, nearly done with the latter. I've been relieved? gratified? I'm not sure of the right word, to the responses to my apologies. While some people have chosen not to reply, of the ones who have, all but one person accepted my apology. I had expected it to be the reverse, with most respondents (and I wasn't sure how many people would take time to reply) declining to accept. Even the person who declined to accept my apology was polite and respectful. It may be the politest, nicest refusal of any kind that I've ever received.

I've also been pleasantly surprised and gratified by the support I've received. Friends, strangers, bloggers, even authors have expressed their willingness to stand by me and even offer encouragement while also making it perfectly clear that they in no way condone what I did. Thank you to all of you. I appreciate it more than I can adequately express.

My actions were stupid, careless, and wrong. I am deeply sorry for the harm that I have done.

Reviews and Plagiarism

This blog is temporarily on hiatus. Reviews that I have already committed to will still be published, unless the author or publisher requests otherwise.

I have been notified by a handful of people that some of my reviews contain plagiarized content. ETA: Disputed and problematic reviews as of 6:30Pm EST 6-1-11 have been pulled from here and from goodreads. If you feel that a review of mine is problematic please send me an email so that I can pull it. The email is Bea at beasbooknook AT gmail DOT com.

I am sincerely sorry for the plagiarism that occurred. It was inexcusable. I hope that some of you will be able to forgive me.

In view of some rude and abusive comments that the spam filter caught, I have temporarily disabled commenting. If you have sent me an email, and it wasn't rude or abusive, you will receive a reply, though it might take a while as I do have other responsibilities and obligations and I do not currently have working internet at home. I was offline for about 48 hours, for several reasons, and apparently some people construed that as my ignoring them. There was no intentional ignoring, I simply couldn't be in multiple places at one time.

I have begun emailing apologies to people whose reviews that I did plagiarize. I will email and email only my apologies to the people that I have wronged.

Again, I am sincerely sorry for the plagiarism that occurred. It was inexcusable.

I would like to add, that despite my deserved embarrassment and humiliation, I am in awe of how quick people were to respond and take action. Bravo to you all.


ETA: Update