Writer Beware®: The Blog: Another Fake Agency Referral Scam: Harper Literary/ Bantam Wings

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Another Fake Agency Referral Scam: Harper Literary...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® As if the querying game weren't hard enough, writers increasingly need to watch out for f...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Bad Contract Alert: GoodNovel

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Bad Contract Alert: GoodNovel: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® This is another in my series of posts about author-unfriendly contracts from reading/writing ...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: How to Spot a Ghostwriting Scam

Writer Beware®: The Blog: How to Spot a Ghostwriting Scam: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® In 2018, I wrote a post that, in part, warned about a solicitation from an obviously dodgy &...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Small Press Storm Warnings: Hurn Publications, Dreaming Big Publications, Azure Spider Publications

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Small Press Storm Warnings: Hurn Publications, Dre...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® HURN PUBLICATIONS I first heard of Hurn Publications (that's a link to an archived vers...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: An Editing Tale: Editor and Author Coach Christina Kaye of Write Your Best Book

Writer Beware®: The Blog: An Editing Tale: Editor and Author Coach Christina...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® I first heard about editor and author coach Christina Kaye (aka Christina Broaddus) last year...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Bad Contract Alert: NovelCat

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Bad Contract Alert: NovelCat: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® How cute is NovelCat's kitty logo? If only its contract were so adorable. NovelCat is y...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: A Critical Look at Scribd's Audiobook Reprint Contracts

Writer Beware®: The Blog: A Critical Look at Scribd's Audiobook Reprint Cont...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® This week I became aware that Scribd is engaging in a major push to acquire audiobook and eb...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Contest Alert: Bardsy's "The Short and Long of It" NANOWRIMO PREP CONTEST

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Contest Alert: Bardsy's "The Short and Long of It"...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Yes, folks, it's another of my posts about problematic writing contest rules. I do a lot...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Another Reason to Just Say No to That Offer to RE-PUBLISH YOUR SELF-PUBBED BOOK

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Another Reason to Just Say No to That Offer to Re-...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® One of the identifying markers for the scores of publishing/marketing/fake literary agency s...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Scam Alert: Silver Ink Literary Agency / Editors Press and Media / Global Review Press

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Scam Alert: Silver Ink Literary Agency / Editors P...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Last week, the Authors Guild sent out this warning : Writer Beware has been getting complai...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: How Bad Contest Entry Rules Can be Mitigated: THE MEDIUM WRITER'S CHALLENGE

Writer Beware®: The Blog: How Bad Contest Entry Rules Can be Mitigated: The ...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® That's right, boys and girls--it's another of my posts about hinky contest rules.  I...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Bad Contract Alert: BYTEDANCE'S FICTUM READING/WRITING APP

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Bad Contract Alert: ByteDance's Fictum Reading/Wri...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Over the past year, I've gotten a flood of questions and complaints from writers who&#39...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Eli Bear Company, Star Alley Press: Two Writer Beware All-Stars Return With New Ventures

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Eli Bear Company, Star Alley Press: Two Writer Bew...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Among the interesting phenomena of the universe of failed and dodgy people in and around wri...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Author Complaints at City Limits Publishing

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Author Complaints at City Limits Publishing: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® I first heard of City Limits Publishing  (CLP) in September 2020, via a question about autho...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Two Scams to Watch Out For: Writers' Conference PHISHING SCHEME, GOODREADS EXTORTION SCAM

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Two Scams to Watch Out For: Writers' Conference Ph...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® "We are Seeking Qualified Writers and Poets for our Conference" Back in January, I...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: #DisneyMustPay: Authors' Groups Join Forces to ADVOCATE FOR WRITERS OWED MONEY BY DISNEY

Writer Beware®: The Blog: #DisneyMustPay: Authors' Groups Join Forces to Adv...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Last November, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)  published a lette...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: The Case of the Purloined Blog Post: HOW A FAKE DMCA NOTICE FAILED TO SILENCE WRITER BEWARE

Writer Beware®: The Blog: The Case of the Purloined Blog Post: How a Fake DM...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® I have a gmail account. I hate gmail, so I don't use it for correspondence and rarely ch...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Publisher Storm Warnings: Diversion Books

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Publisher Storm Warnings: Diversion Books: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Founded in 2010 by Scott Waxman of the Waxman Literary Agency , Diversion Books was one of ...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Contract Red Flag: When a Publisher Claims Copyrights On Edits

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Contract Red Flag: When a Publisher Claims Copyrig...: Posted by Victoria Strauss  for  Writer Beware This is an updated version of a post I published a couple of years ago. It's not all that...

Writer Beware®: The Blog: SCAM ALERT: PAPER BYTES MARKETING SOLUTIONS AND ITS STABLE OF IMAGINARY AGENTS

Writer Beware®: The Blog: Scam Alert: Paper Bytes Marketing Solutions and it...: Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Once upon a time, there was a publishing and marketing scammer called Chapters Media and Adv...