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Make that “(Allegedly) Ripped-Off Author” because she still hasn’t proved a thing.
In the Unresolved Problems section is Vanessa Bonnette who is still not only beating the drum about Rhonda Byrne of “The Secret” stealing the idea from her, she’s also still not offering any proof to back up her claims. Apparently “I’m in Singapore” is her own get out of jail free card from the burden and obligation of proof.
To say nothing of being accountable.
Here’s her whiny complaint left in my Comments section. Not only does she fail to address me by name, but instead plays to the crowd. I guess I wasn’t sympathetic enough for her tastes, like Connie appeared to be.
“Hi all,
I would really prefer it if everyone could check the facts before making some very ignornant statements about my case. Granted, most people couldn’t “give a hoot” and I accept that. But ask anyone how’d they’d feel by “walking a mile in my shoes” is all I ask i.e. a woman has made in excess of (currently) $60m from my work and I can’t do anything about it… really, how would you feel and wouldn’t you be wanting to at least put some facts out for others to judge for themselves? I’m currently in Singapore but I have offered to anyone the 10 A4 pages of citations which are a page by page comaprison of both books stating the copyright infringements. I return first week of July if you’re interested.
Sincere blessings,
Vanessa Bonnette”
The first thing I want everyone to note is that while Bonnette has taken plenty of time and bandwidth to claim how she’s been ripped off (again), she’s yet to offer proof during any of that. Again. Not on Connie’s blog, where she posted a lengthy comment and certainly not mine.
So Ms. Bonnette — we can’t judge the “facts” because you offer none. Repeatedly. The burden of proof is on your shoulders. You’ve made the claims so you need to pony-up the facts.
And this tired drum: ” . . . offered to anyone the 10 A4 pages of citations which are a page by page comaprison of both books stating the copyright infringements.”
You need to get a new one.
Heck, I’d “really prefer” that when people like you make your claims, you back it up with proof when you make the accusation, not months and years after the alleged incident.
I’d “prefer” that when you call someone’s statements “ignornant” (sic), you back it up with some examples of the alleged ignorance.
Those are my preferences, but I know that my preferences and $3.40 gets me a Grande Americano at the local Starbucks. Perhaps you fare better with yours.
I also find it curious that the original edition of your book is now (allegedly) out of print.
Convenient.
Can you see the pattern here, folks? Dealing with Bonnette reminds me of the Buddhist saying “You can’t step twice on the same piece of water.” Because whenever you bring the pressure of observation to bear on her case, she runs off somewhere else and makes even more unsubstantiated irrelevant statements.
Did you also notice that Bonnette never offered to send a hard copy of her original book to help back up their claims?
Perhaps you noticed that her publisher has yet to come forward to publicly state they actually published her book in whatever year it was (allegedly) published in? And of course that would be notarized, naturally.
I requested that she produce a delivery receipt showing that back then 2003 (or whatever year it is allegedly happened) that she sent a copy of her book to the television station that Byrne worked at.
No response.
Now, every author I know religiously keeps these receipts, in the eventuality that something like Bonnette’s case happens. It’s every author’s worst nightmare. When I was a screenwriter in Hollywood whenever I sent my scripts to agents (back when I was trying to get an agent), I always kept my delivery receipts.
If for no other reason than to prove that the script actually got delivered to the right person.
My point is that there are lots of ways authors protect themselves and oddly enough (or not), Bonnette seems to have taken none of them.
Heck, she hasn’t even offered up a pic of the original edition of a book , nor the indicia with the year, Library of Congress and ISBN number etc., etc.
I know a lot of authors and they always have multiple copies of their hardcopy books laying around somewhere.
Always.
So for my money, Bonnette is at least as big a fraud as she paints Byrne to be, perhaps moreso. At least Byrne produced something. At least she went through all the work to make something happen and did quite well with it – unlike Ms. Bonnette.
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