Twilight’s Stephanie Meyer Sued for Plagiarism by 15-Year-Old Girl

?I hate to do this to you right after the “Bruce Campbell, Samurai” article, but Twilight author Stephanie Meyer is only kind of being sued by a 15-year-old girl for plagiarism — there’s indeed a girl suing Meyer for plagiarism, but she’s now 21, but she says she started her shitty vampire romance book when she was 15, which is kind of wonderful. Frankly, I would have guessed Meyer would have ripped off a 12-year-old girl, or perhaps a Lisa Frank trapper keeper which had a vampire sticker on it, but whatever. TMZ has the details:

A woman named Jordan Scott fired off a cease and desist letter to the publisher of “Breaking Dawn”
— the fourth book in the series — claiming the Twilight tale contains
a “striking and substantial similarity” to Scott’s book, “The Nocturne.”

In her extremely detailed letter,
Scott claims her book was published in 2006 — two years before
“Breaking Dawn” — and it’s no coincidence that many of the scenes are
almost identical. Such as…

— Both books contain a post-wedding sex scene
— Both books contain a scene about a woman who’s sick because she’s carrying a child with “evil powers”
— Both books contain a scene with the death of the main character’s wife

And according to Scott, the dialogue in all of these scenes — and more — is extremely similar.

As much as I’d love the schadenfreude of Meyer getting successfully sued for plagiarism, it really just sounds like these are two women who both wanted to write the world’s most generic horror-romance story and had desperately limited imaginations. But maybe it’ll turn out the dialogue is more exact. Scintillating dialogue like:

I was stunned by the unexpected electricity that flowed through me,
amazed that it was possible to be more aware of him than I already was.
A crazy impulse to reach over and touch him, to stroke his perfect face
just once in the darkness, nearly overwhelmed me.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be drinking myself into an early morning coma after having to look at Twilight quote sites. (Via Filmdrunk)