regarding originality of work (signal boost)
What Alexa Seidel says. Only I wouldn't be as temperate about it if it had happened to us at ST.
Here's the thing. It's so pointless to plagiarise spec poetry. For what, the money and glamour? So it'd be easy to think there must be some sort of mistake involved. But no:
a) There is nothing in the plagiarized poem that isn't identical or near-identical to the previously published work; and the statistical chance of someone "accidentally" coming up with identical poetic text is zero.
b) The plagiarizer has been caught doing the same thing to the same poem at another magazine.
From a writer/poet perspective, this makes me want to throw heavy things. But from an editorial perspective, it's even worse; it erodes community trust. So this sort of action is not just dishonest, selfish, and despicable; it's community-wrecking.
So, y'know, if anyone was wondering what sort of thing gets one blacklisted from Stone Telling, here's an example!
Here's the thing. It's so pointless to plagiarise spec poetry. For what, the money and glamour? So it'd be easy to think there must be some sort of mistake involved. But no:
a) There is nothing in the plagiarized poem that isn't identical or near-identical to the previously published work; and the statistical chance of someone "accidentally" coming up with identical poetic text is zero.
b) The plagiarizer has been caught doing the same thing to the same poem at another magazine.
From a writer/poet perspective, this makes me want to throw heavy things. But from an editorial perspective, it's even worse; it erodes community trust. So this sort of action is not just dishonest, selfish, and despicable; it's community-wrecking.
So, y'know, if anyone was wondering what sort of thing gets one blacklisted from Stone Telling, here's an example!