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Writer Beware

The official blog of Writer Beware® shines a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers, industry news, and commentary. Writer Beware® is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.

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Vanity Publishing and Pay to Play

Buying Your Own Book: A Question You Don’t Want Your Publisher to Ask

Bad Impressions for Good Impressions Audio Books

Wake Up.. and Pay (Redux)

SterlingHouse Publisher’s Cover Gambit (Or, How Vanity Publishers Make [More] Money)

Vanity is the New Indie: Weasel Words from Author Solutions

Lulu Acquires Poetry.com

Guest Blog — Playwriting in America: Percentages, Pitfalls, and “Pay-to-Play”

Eber & Wein / Poetry Nation: Another Vanity Anthology Scheme

Publishers Weekly Highlights Two Vanity Publishers

Writing Oddities: Shortstoryofthemonth.com

University Press of the South

Ding Dong, BookWise is Dead

Reeling in the Kids, Part 2: Operation Teen Author

Kissed Publications: Hidden Costs

WriteWise: BookWise Branches Out Into Vanity Publishing

Aultbea Publishing: Reeling in the Kids

“Wake Up…Live the Life You Love”: Yet Another Vanity Scheme

The Chutzpah of Anomalos Publishers

Vanity Ripoffs: Simon & Northrup Publishing / Martell Publishing

Who’s Wergle Flomp?

Beware Who’s Who Schemes

More on Author Identity

Author Identity Publishing Redux

Stealth Vanity Publishers

SterlingHouse Publisher Wants YOU!

The Identity of Author Identity

Rebuttal Scuttlebutt

Someone Out There Doesn’t Like Us (And We Don’t Care)

Ann’s Martha Ivery Interview

More Martha Ivery

More Martha Ivery

Another Victory for Writer Beware! WE RULE!!!

CAVEAT EMPTOR!

A.C. Crispin – 8

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