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By Erin Collazo Miller, About.com Guide to Bestsellers

Kaavya Viswanathan's Book Deal Canceled

Wednesday May 3, 2006
Publisher Little, Brown announced yesterday that Kaavya Viswanathan's book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life will not be reissued with changes, as originally planned. The publisher also canceled Viswanathan's contract for a second book. This decision came as a result of more plagiarised passages being identified. It now appears that Viswanathan not only copied from Meg McCafferty, but also borrowed from authors Sophie Kinsella and Meg Cabot.

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