Listen now
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses sexual abuse, while not in detail, it may be disturbing and/or triggering to some listeners and viewers.
In this surprise episode, Mike and AJ break down the Amy Griffin controversy and how authors can learn from it. Amy Griffin authored the book The Tell, in which she recounts a repressed memory of alleged sexual abuse. However, Griffin’s classmate, Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit saying that the alleged story of SA was not Griffin’s, but Doe’s. Mike and AJ discuss the issue of authors taking stories that aren’t their own and how to learn from other stories without creating a false narrative.
Be sure to visit https://dwtbpodcast.com for more information and add your name to start receiving their newsletter. If you’d like to support this show, rate, subscribe, and leave a review on your podcast app.
“Now, when I was a ghost[writer], I had contracts that said, you’re in charge of your own content that you give. You’re the one who… [has] to assure me in the contract that everything you give me is yours, that you own it.”
—AJ Harper
“Because plagiarism is copying pre-written someone else’s material verbatim. This is taking someone else’s memories and making it your own memories.”
—Mike Michalowicz
