BEWARE

This Book is Not by The Real Cassie Phillips

Welcome to part four of the Let Them saga.

If you’re just joining us, here’s what you’ve missed…

In January 2025, I did what my papa did before me: fight for justice. I broke the story about Mel Robbins’s alleged plagiarism of Cassie Phillips’s poetry and prose and hit a tender nerve in the writing community. It’s led to a call to action to protect writers and their work from AI generated plagiarism—as well as a signal to the straws being used by some celebrities to usurp slurp the movements popularized by lesser know authors.

Please follow along and read this story … which is still in progress.

Part one: Mel Robbins and Plagiarism: Meet Cassie Phillips, the original author of Let Them

Part two: Can Mel Robbins Trademark Your Words? Let’s Find Out

Part three: Mel Robbins, Cassie Phillips & The Courage to do the Right Thing

Caution Before You Buy Cassie’s Book

Someone has capitalized on the Mel Robbins vs Cassie Phillips scandal and released their own version of Let Them. It’s a yellow covered book claiming it’s inspired by Cassie Phillips’s Let Them poem, and it’s supposedly written by someone with a one letter difference in their last name: “Cassandra Philips.” (The last name given has only one L, unlike the two Ls found in the real Cassie’s last name.)

This fraud is being contested. Due to the lack of safeguards by Amazon, that allowed this counterfeit book on their site (a release which seems likely to have been generated by AI plagiarism), the real Cassie Phillips had to remove her book. She will soon publish her book, but some housekeeping at Amazon has to happen first before she publishes.

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