Yesterday, a judge in the Southern District of New York ruled that Tracy Wolff did not plagiarize her bestselling Crave series. The long-running lawsuit, first brought in 2022 by writer Lynne Freeman, claimed that Crave was “substantially similar” to Freeman’s manuscript “Blue Moon Rising,” which was represented by Wolff’s agent Emily Sylvan Kim—and ultimately unpublished. The suit also named Kim, Crave publisher Entangled Books, distributor Macmillan, and Universal City Studios, which optioned Crave for film. After reading six drafts of “Blue Moon Rising” and the four Crave novels, Judge Colleen McMahon concludes that many of the similarities in the works […]
