Too much too soon

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life and Kaavya Viswanathan

It was too good to last - a book by a very young author making headlines all over the world , her fantastic (by any standards) advance for books yet to be thought of, let alone written, immediate world wide recognition - could all have been straight out of a book (Maybe written by herself?).
Was it active plagiarisation, or a subconscious retention of passages read and transcribed?
A pity that a budding career had to be so swiftly nipped.
Will anyone publish her again?
See http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1509860.cms

Having my say

Now that I have my own space to say something, I find that I don't have much to say!
Does that happen to all of us?
The minute you get some attention, whatever you wanted to say slips out of your mind, and you are there, looking ( and feeling, I bet) blank, while those whose attention you were waiting for, now wait for you expectantly to drop those pearls of wisdom.