Hold On Now, Why Am I Not In This Loop?

*sigh*

Today on Facebook a fan, out of the blue, railed against another author, saying she'd borrowed heavily from the Nightrunner books for her fantasy series. That was news to me, and her series came out in '08. I know that this particular author is a fan of mine, and a member of this LJ. I've seen these books at Amazon (they are frequently linked to mine), read the descriptions, and didn't have that impression. I went to the author's LJ and saw a post in which she states that Nightrunner f...