Plagiarism and the Indie Author

Recently a fellow indie author reached out to discuss a manuscript he’d been working on with another author. Production had been going swimmingly, but unfortunately they’d run into a sticking point halfway through the second book in the series.

You see, their main character is (or was) a female druid named McCool.

This author is a very nice fellow, which I knew because we’d met previously at a fantasy con and briefly talked shop. He’d left me with a favorable impression and vice versa, so when h...