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For an embarrassingly long time, a link on the index page of the Writer Beware website has promised that a feature on Writers’ Services is “coming soon.” It’s now (finally) online. Why did we feel a need to add this section to the website? Over the past few years, we’ve encountered more and more servicesRead More
Just got back from a week’s vacation in lovely Hughesville, Maryland, courtesy of Ann and her husband Michael. We had a busy time–visited the National Arboretum in Washington DC plus several local gardens (both Michael and I are plant nuts), walked the picturesque streets of Annapolis, spent some time at a historic site that recreatedRead More
Most of you visiting here will probably be aware of the most recent antics of “literary agent” Barbara Bauer, serial cease-and-desister and Big Number 3 on Writer Beware’s Twenty Worst Agents list. (If I seem a bit behind the eight ball with this post, I wasn’t aware of any of this till yesterday evening. IRead More
Yesterday I spent six hours at the Book Expo America, wandering around the gargantuan DC Convention Center. I had been to the convention before, back when it was still the American Booksellers Association, known as the ABA. I remembered enough from my previous time there to bring a tote bag. One tote bag wasn’t enough.Read More
A lot of you will probably already have heard of AuthorHouse’s recent troubles. According to yesterday’s Publishers Weekly, a Kansas jury has found the POD publisher guilty of publishing a book that libeled bestselling author Rebecca Brandewyne (Paperback Poison: the Romance Writer and the Hit Man by Brandewyne’s ex-husband Gary D. Brock and his currentRead More
Hi, my friends: Lately I’ve been dealing with family illness while trying to make significant progress on my new novel, Winds of Vengeance, so I haven’t been around much. I really appreciate Victoria stepping in and blogging so excellently. Since I’m in the middle of a major project — well, I consider writing an epicRead More
