Search results
See this post from Writer Beware’s blog for more suggestions for reading, researching, and learning about the publishing industry. Resources. Tools to Help You Evaluate Literary Agents. E-mail Writer Beware. Over the past 20+ years, Writer Beware has assembled an enormous archive of information on agents and agent practice, including the bad ...
Aug 16, 2019 · Victoria Strauss, co-founder of Writer Beware®, is the author of nine novels for adults and young adults, including her Way of Arata epic fantasy duology (The Burning Land and The Awakened City), and a pair of historical novels for teens, Passion Blue and Color Song.
May 24, 2024 · For a full list of the well over 200 copycat scams that Writer Beware has identified to date, see the Overseas Scams List at the Writer Beware blog. Resources If you do a websearch on any aspect of self-publishing, you’ll find a bewildering amount of information, much of it paid advertising or thinly-disguised self-promotion by paid service ...
May 24, 2024 · Writer Beware has heard from authors who are being driven mad by incessant phone calls (that can’t be blocked because the callers’ numbers are spoofed) or repeated emails. Some copycats do business under multiple names, and will solicit authors separately under each name; or if they strike out under one name, will solicit again using another.
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.
Jan 6, 2023 · The Best of Writer Beware: 2022 in Review. POSTED BY VICTORIA-STRAUSS FOR WRITER BEWARE® ON JAN 6, 2023. As 2023 gets underway, it’s time again for Writer Beware’s annual look back at all the schemes, scams, pitfalls, and publishing industry craziness we covered in 2022.
Writer Beware. Writer Beware was founded in 1998 by myself and my late friend and fellow author Ann Crispin (who wrote as A.C. Crispin ). Writer Beware’s mission is to track, expose, and raise awareness of scams and other questionable activities in and around the publishing industry. We’re sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy ...
