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Tonight I am not going to share with you the wisdom of the universe. I’m not even going to tell you how to write better. I’m going to be a crabby person and grump, here on the blog. You folks may or may not be aware of it, but there are writers out there whoRead More
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
