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The “Mexican Film Director” Scam

Why You Might Not Want to Use Wire Transfer or Payment Apps to Pay For Publishing Services

How to (Maybe) Get Out of Your Contract When Your Scam Re-Publisher Ghosts You

Long-Standing Payment Problems At Cricket Media

Whatever Happened To Catstone Books?

When New Isn’t Better: The Value of Experience

Solicitation Alert: The BookWalker

The Implosion of BBB Publishings: A Peek Into the Sometimes Dysfunctional World of Paid Anthology / Boxed Set Publishing

Update: The Copyright Claims Board At the Three-Month Mark

Scam Alert: Scammers Impersonating Acorn TV

Complaints and Changes at Parliament House Press

Beware Bait and Switch Scams

Impersonating Agents: A New Face For An Old Scam

America’s Next Great Author: The Author Reality Show Idea Rides Again

Author-Agent “Handshake” Agreements: Be Wary

The Copyright Claims Board: A New Option For Copyright Disputes

Publishing Contracts 101: Beware Internal Contradictions

Bad Contract Alert: Stary (aka Dreame)

The AALA (Formerly the AAR) Revises Its Canon Of Ethics

A Contract Clause to Beware: Claiming Copyright on “Publisher’s Content”

The #DisneyMustPay Task Force Calls on Disney–Again–to Pay the Writers

Author Complaints At GenZ Publishing

Self-Publishers Take Note: Audible/ACX’s New Tax Reporting Policy

Junk Book Marketing: Book Fair “Representation”

Requesting Rights Reversion From Your Publisher

A New Home For the Writer Beware Blog

Bad Contract Alert: Popink

Another Fake Agency Referral Scam: Harper Literary / Bantam Wings

Bad Contract Alert: GoodNovel

Keeping Moral Rights: A Wattpad Contest Controversy

How to Spot a Ghostwriting Scam

Pink Sand Press: What Can Happen When Your Agent Decides to Become Your Publisher

The Best of Writer Beware: 2021 in Review