No worries. Just use the text from a lesser known work. But please, make it a really lesser known work, for Chrissakes.

Little, Brown and Co. published Viswanathan’s How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life in March and it is currently on the New York Times bestseller list.

The young writer had made headlines because of her youth and the two-book, $500,000 US deal she signed with Little, Brown while still in high school. Her book has also been reportedly optioned for a film.

This looks like a pretty compelling argument. Viswanathan is under scrutiny for copying passages from the books of Megan McCafferty, a former Cosmo editor. Check this out:

On page 6 of McCafferty’s book Sloppy Firsts, she writes: “Sabrina was the brainy Angel. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart.”

On page 39 of Viswanathan’s book, she writes: “Moneypenny was the brainy female character. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: smart or pretty.”

McCafferty’s books are called Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings. Go ahead, go buy them all. They look like life enhancing novels. Botox for the soul. Or something.