The Benford Plagiarism Dossier 09

Two more plagiarisms by Joanne Benford



We can provide email addresses of the editor of Cafe Ultima
and the writer of "Santas"





Begin forwarded message:

From: Stuart
Subject: Plagiarism
Date: 13 June 2012 12:54:33 GMT+01:00
To: Snowball

Hi Alex

Been following your sorry tale (Re: Joanne Benford) via Twitter. My sympathies.

You're obviously keenly on her case and I hope you bring her to heel. Be great to read a blog post on the whole episode once you've resolved it. It will serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of us.

I've also done a little digging out of curiosity (and a sense of "there but for the grace of god…") and have found out the following:

1. The book 'Cafe Ultima'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Café-Ultima-ebook/dp/B005HDIFQQ/ref=sr_1_13?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1339587721&sr=1-13

appears to have been lifted from Issue 1 of the A.K.C.T. fanzine. Unfortunately, there's no authors listed for the fanzine (so it could be her, I guess), but I've emailed them to try and find out.








2. The story "Second Hand Santas"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Second-Hand-Santas-ebook/dp/B007BM1AJK/ref=sr_1_16?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1339586473&sr=1-16

looks like it has been lifted from here:

http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/1999/12/Christmas-In-A-Thrift-Shop.aspx


best wishes

Stuart

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Begin forwarded message:

From: "vade"
Subject: Fwd: Cafe Ultimate - AKCT
Date: 13 June 2012 14:08:13 GMT+01:00
To: snowball

Hi Alex,

Here's the reply from John Eden.  It wasn't him who wrote the story, but he confirms it wasn't Joanne Benford either.

Matthew

Sent from my HTC

----- Forwarded message -----
From: eden@uncarved.org
To: "uncarved.org blog"
Subject: Cafe Ultimate - AKCT
Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2012 13:53


Hi VM

The author wishes to remain anonymous.

I assume this relates to the work being sold on Amazon, so here is a

response I wrote just now to a similar query:

"I've contacted the author. He has confirmed that he is not Joanne Benford.

The AKCT stories were originally self-published in the mid 90s. I

republished them online in 1997."

I hope this helps!

John Eden