Did Steve Harvey Plagiarize Best Seller?

There is a rumor going around that Steve Harvey and his co-writer might have stolen the idea for his new, best-selling book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man.

Full disclosure: I haven't read the book yet, but I have been eyeing it in my local Border's bookstore. It currently sits atop the New York Times Best Selling book list and several book clubs are now reading it.

The book dishes advice to women, who Harvey says, are setting their standards too low when it comes to men. He even went on Oprah to promote it recently.

Man, if this rumor is true, it will be the second time Oprah has gotten burned by an unethical writer (or co-writer in this case).

Oprah's gonna be pissed.

Anyway, Sharon P. Carson published an e-book by the same name in 2003, according to this web site.

The book sells online for $7.99 (not the $23.99 price-sticker on Harvey's book). In it, Carson touts her book as providing "keys to self-worth and surviving a love knockout."

There's more on Carson's book below. Meanwhile, let me know if this comes up on Steve Harvey's radio show.

Taken from Sharon P. Carson's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man:

Act like a Lady – Think like a Man is a
collection of short lessons that are intended to
inspire women to practice both self-love and
tough love in relationships.

In today’s world women’s hearts are being
broken over and over again, as easily as eggs
for an omelet and without remorse or second
thought.

By gaining some insight into
how men think (in terms of their relationships
with women,) a woman can help better her
present relationship and be more able either to
recognize the signs of a bad relationship so
that she doesn’t fall into one, or to recognize
if she has already fallen into one.