Today's forecast? Up from partially plagiarized to morning showers of new accusations

Additional passages of Opal Mehta appear to come from another chick lit work, "Can You Keep a Secret?" by Sophie Kinsella.

Can you? Apparently, the answer is no.

And this just in from M&C correspondent, Tea: a take on the author's life that proves that her original story (the one she pitched, and the one about her life) would have made a far better book in the first place. Follow the link, kids. Her mother's plans for her book party involved a red carpet strewn with rose petals. (I'm forwarding this immediately to my mother. She's going to need to plan ahead.)

And yet another update from Tea: Passages from a third author, this time from Meg Cabot and her "Princess Diaries" has been matched to Opal Mehta. And the New Jersey newspaper that Kaavya interned for is currently reviewing all the stories she wrote while she was with them. The editor of The Record is quoted as saying:

To us she was a bright young kid that seemed to have the makings of a good writer. There were no alarms; nobody had ever questioned any of her stories. We have no reason to believe there's anything wrong with her copy. But in light of what's going on, we thought we should check her stuff out.