Beyond Selidor

That happened with the author of My Dark Vanessa, too -- people accused her of plagiarizing a different book and she had to come forward with her own history of abuse, which she specifically didn't want to do, and people went digging and found her old twitter and livejournal accounts where she'd shared earlier drafts. So, okay, it was "permissible" for her to have written about her own experience! She said "But I do not believe that we should compel victims to share the details of their personal trauma with the public. The decision whether or not to come forward should always be a personal choice." And the person who accused her of plagiarism hadn't read the book and said on Twitter she was uninterested in doing so, just like a lot of people didn't read Fall's story, they were reacting to the reactions of people who had often just gotten upset at the title.