Plagiarism: How you as a writer can protect yourself

If you read very much in the M/M romance genre, you’ll know that there’s been a rash of plagiarized stories that have been uncovered lately. Not that plagiarism is anything new. We’ve all heard of news reporters who have lifted stories from more talented writers and claimed them as their own. There is a famous YA author who has been accused of ‘borrowing’ passages from lesser known works and incorporating them into her stories with only window dressing changes. I’ve even read about someone ta...