Author of `Conversations with God’ accused of plagiarism

NEW YORK (AP) - Neale Donald Walsch, the best-selling author of “Conversations with God,“ says he unwittingly passed off another writer’s Christmas anecdote as his own in a recent blog post.
    As a result, Walsch’s blog on the spirituality Web site Beliefnet.com has been shut down. The Web site said in a statement that Walsch had failed to properly credit and attribute material from another author.
    Author Candy Chand said in an interview Tuesday that she stumbled onto Walsch’s post when she ran “Christmas Love” through an Internet search engine. She immediately recognized her own words, from her story based on her son’s kindergarten Christmas pageant. She contacted Walsch and Beliefnet.
    Walsch wrote on his blog Tuesday he was “truly mystified” about what happened and apologized.