On Tuesday, November 27, award winning Nigerian-American fantasy author, Tomi Adeyemi, took to Twitter to make a claim that Nora Roberts lifted her book title.

With pictures comparing Adeyemi's beautiful debut 'Children of Blood and Bone' and Nora Roberts' upcoming sequel 'Of Blood and Bone', she tweeted:"It would be nice if an artist could create something special without another artist trying to shamelessly profit off it."

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The tweet set the timeline on fire, with people claiming that Roberts was trying to seek relevance from perceived debacle, since the prequel was titled 'Year one' and there seemed to be no rational reason for the sequel to be called "of blood and bone".

Roberts' fans on the other hand, were demanding that Adeyemi, who was only a newbie in the industry, show the veteran author some respect. Others searched out titles and pulled up evidence that showed that many other authors have used a similar title to 'of blood and bone' and will continue to do so.

It was later revealed that Roberts' team had put the promotional teaser, with the title of the upcoming novel, since 2017, long before Adeyemi's book was published.

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Later on, Tomi Adeyemi took to Twitter, yesterday November 28, to render an apology for the false claims:

"Update: Nora was kind enough to reach out & explain that today was the first she’d heard of my book. After talking to her, I believe our titles were created in isolation. I’m grateful she explained & I’ve apologised, but I wanted to address it here as I know others were upset too."

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We await more details on the matter.