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And now that I've gone and read through the PDF, there are definitely some eerie similarities between the two books. But still.
No, but their records could be substantiating evidence, and therefore it seems possible one side or the other may ask for them.
I seem to recall that one of the reasons the lady who sued JK Rowling had her case thrown out of court was that the number of her books that were printed was miniscule and sales were restricted to such a tiny geographical area that those two facts made it unreasonable to believe that JK Rowling could ever have seen her book, much less read it and plagiarized it.
But I might be misremembering that, of course.
And now that I've gone and read through the PDF, there are definitely some eerie similarities between the two books.
The "I have a theory" song from B:TVS in now stuck in my head. I. Will. Sue.
I don't see any more similarities between Keller's Den and Duma Key than I do between Keller's Den and the 1832 German novel Maler Nolten (or, as Unca Jim says, The Picture of Dorian Gray); any novel about a painter who is possessed or who has supernatural powers is going to have certain things in common with other novels about painters who are possessed or who have supernatural powers.
Oops, I still don't have my edit function buttons.
Rest of thought: to avoid any hint of plagiarism in case of similarity of ideas.
King is said to draw heavily on his previous writings.
Wouldn't it be odd if the author suing him actually picked up his own ideas by reading King's earlier works.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Given any two novels anyone could find the same number of "similarities." It might be fun to go through the PA book and find how similar it is to The Picture of Dorian Gray.
He is asking for a JURY trial... Lucky judge...
At least he'll be able to say that twelve people have read his book
Right, because King isn't original or smart enough to write his own story, so he has to go looking around the masterpieces from PA's authors to steal story ideas.
I just read Full Dark, No Stars (highly recommended.) In one of his stories, the main character has the same name as one of the main characters in my book. I didn't think anything of it. Then, in the same section, there's a great big man in a Ford F-150. A great big man who drives a Ford F-150 figures prominently in my story. We even describe some of the setup the same way.
I'm so going to sue S. King. If he doesn't sue me first.
In my defense, I wrote a lot of it four years ago. Lol!