Oh. God.
I just got a frighteningly official sounding email from a woman who has been reading the Amazon.com reviews and noticed a review some random person posted (completely without my knowledge), accusing (NAME REMOVED) of plagiarism. Frankly, I'm terrified. I don't want to make any judgement until I've actually read the book, and all the bookstores in my area haven't gotten it yet, but I can't imagine that a published author with (NAME REMOVED)'s body of work could ever consider stooping to plagiarism.
The even scarier thing is that this lady must have done serious
research. I've checked Google, and WIAN doesn't come up on search engines until about 5 pages of junk. I have to admit, it's a rather clichéed title. The investigator would have had to sift through mountains of baby-namers and "Romeo and Juliet" websites before she finally came upon WIAN. To make matters worse, my website isn't even the only HP etymology site *titled* What's In a Name! Cairnsy's section of "Positively Percy" dedicated to Percy-etymology is called "What's In a Name". A quick google search for
"What's In a Name" "Harry Potter" returned scads of others. How did she know which one was mine? I fear that this is really getting serious. ::whimpers:: Help?
I'm going to email the investigator and tell her that the review is entirely false and that it should be removed. I don't want this to get out of hand.