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Stopping word thieves<br><br>"His step had an unusual silence to it. It was late morning in October. ." Those are tempting words to begin MY story about the man you're looking at  they fit perfectly  but they aren't MY words, they're HIS.<br><br>Quentin Rowan penned them to open his very first novel, "Assassin of Secrets," a spy thriller published under a pseudonym last year.<br><br>Pick a page, almost any page, and you'll find it a carbon copy of someone else's work  an astonishing mash up of as many as 20 different books (many of them James Bond novels) all rolled into one.<br><br>Book A: "The first move was to lose himself in the swelling throng."<br><br>Book B: "The first move was to lose himself in the swelling throng,chanel ipad mini 2 case. "<br><br>"I know, I mean, it's wild, looking at it," Quentin said.<br><br>"I mean, it seems like a massive word puzzle, sort of," said Cowan.<br><br>"Yeah, well, I was, it felt sort of like making a collage."<br><br>The tale of Quentin Rowan's literary tailspin began with the best of intentions. He started writing poetry as a teenager. He was good. His work was even chosen for an anthology  "Best American Poetry"  in 1996.<br><br>Back then, his words were proudly his.<br><br>But soon, like a dangling participle, self doubt was creeping into his writing. prep books.<br><br>"When did it switch from replacing words to then replacing phrases to replacing sentences to paragraphs?" asked Cowan.<br><br>"It was a slow progression," he said. "At a certain point, I started thinking I wanted to write stories, to write fiction, and that's really when I started stealing sentences and paragraphs and stuff."<br><br>He did that  successfully  for 15 years.<br><br>So did he sense, as he was doing it, that it was wrong? "Oh yeah," Quentin said. "Even when I was just taking words from poems, I already felt like I was a criminal, you know?"

Stopping word thieves<br><br>"His step had an unusual silence to it. It was late morning in October. ." Those are tempting words to begin MY story about the man you're looking at  they fit perfectly  but they aren't MY words, they're HIS.<br><br>Quentin Rowan penned them to open his very first novel, "Assassin of Secrets," a spy thriller published under a pseudonym last year.<br><br>Pick a page, almost any page, and you'll find it a carbon copy of someone else's work  an astonishing mash up of as many as 20 different books (many of them James Bond novels) all rolled into one.<br><br>Book A: "The first move was to lose himself in the swelling throng."<br><br>Book B: "The first move was to lose himself in the swelling throng,chanel ipad mini 2 case. "<br><br>"I know, I mean, it's wild, looking at it," Quentin said.<br><br>"I mean, it seems like a massive word puzzle, sort of," said Cowan.<br><br>"Yeah, well, I was, it felt sort of like making a collage."<br><br>The tale of Quentin Rowan's literary tailspin began with the best of intentions. He started writing poetry as a teenager. He was good. His work was even chosen for an anthology  "Best American Poetry"  in 1996.<br><br>Back then, his words were proudly his.<br><br>But soon, like a dangling participle, self doubt was creeping into his writing. prep books.<br><br>"When did it switch from replacing words to then replacing phrases to replacing sentences to paragraphs?" asked Cowan.<br><br>"It was a slow progression," he said. "At a certain point, I started thinking I wanted to write stories, to write fiction, and that's really when I started stealing sentences and paragraphs and stuff."<br><br>He did that  successfully  for 15 years.<br><br>So did he sense, as he was doing it, that it was wrong? "Oh yeah," Quentin said. "Even when I was just taking words from poems, I already felt like I was a criminal, you know?"