In 2019, Nora Roberts, well-known in the romance industry for her over 200 novels, filed a lawsuit against another author over plagiarism, according to The Guardian. Roberts accused Cristiane Serruya of plagiarizing some 40 authors, including 10 of Roberts' own books, according to the New York Times. CBC News says Roberts later called out Amazon, where the accused Surruya published her books, for not having caught the plagiarism, which forced Amazon to make a public statement against copying other writers' works.
Before the lawsuit, the Romance Writers of America had included Surruya's "Royal Love" as a finalist in the RITA Best Fiction award, and, once it became clear that the novel was one of many of hers to borrow heavily from Roberts and other writers, the title was promptly removed from the running.
Roberts has earned a reputation as an anti-plagiarism spokesperson thanks to this case and has spoken out against plagiarism on many occasions since the incident, saying that, while other writers don't have the resources it takes to achieve justice, she does, as per the Times. Roberts didn't stop there. She later reprimanded Kindle Unlimited, a part of Amazon, for the program that pays self-published writers royalties for pages read by the consumer, which, according to Roberts, encourages plagiarism as an easy way out to increase output.
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