Chicken "Little": "Opal" revision shelved


The AP has just moved a story that wasn’t too hard to see coming: Little Brown says there will be no “revised” Opal Mehta chick lit novel, nor will there be any second book published by Kaavya Viswanathan.

As it turns out, that’s because there aren’t just a few similarities to Megan McCafferty‘s novels; rather, there’s a raft of “borrowings” from no fewer than three novelists.

As the AP reports,

“The Harvard Crimson student newspaper, alerted by reader e-mails, reported Tuesday on its Web site that ‘Opal Mehta’ contained passages similar to Meg Cabot‘s 2000 novel, ‘The Princess Diaries.’

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