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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware BEA 2012 was fantastic! I got home Wednesday evening–I’d debated spending an extra day, but now I’m glad I didn’t because I woke up Thursday with a migraine and spent much of the day with an icepack on my head. The fun began Monday morning with the IndependentRead More
An important legal ruling was handed down yesterday by Judge Denny Chin in the five-year-old Authors Guild v. Google class action lawsuit over Google’s scanning of millions of in-copyright books. (A bit of history on the dispute: Google has argued that the scanning–intended to build a the world’s biggest digital library–as well as the displayRead More
A couple of years ago, I blogged about the launch of PW Select, an online supplement to the regular PW magazine. PW Select, which is published quarterly, allows self-published writers to buy brief listings (author, title, subtitle, price, pagination and format, ISBN, a brief description, and ordering information) for $149. With every issue of theRead More
Two fascinating surveys appeared this week. They look at opposite ends of the writing business, but dovetail in interesting ways. (This is going to be a long post, so please bear with me.) The Writers’ Workshop Survey of Professional Authors In March, the Writers’ Workshop, a UK-based writers’ consultancy, launched a survey of traditionally publishedRead More
Once again, the Writer Beware blog has been chosen as one of Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites for Writers (the list appears in the June 2012 issue of the magazine, and can be downloaded here if you’re willing to subscribe to the WD newsletter). Writer’s Digest compiles this list annually from nominations submitted by theRead More
I’m thrilled and honored to announce that Goodreads and the Association of American Publishers have chosen me as the winner of the Publishing News category of the first annual Independent Book Blogger Awards. I’ll be attending the awards ceremony at BookExpo America on June 4th. The official press release is below. ————————————- Amherst Resident andRead More
