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April 26, 2019

Awards Profiteers: How Writers Can Recognize Them and Why They Should Avoid Them

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Lately I'm seeing frequent ads on Facebook for high-entry fee literary awards, such ...
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March 28, 2019

Caution: Turkish Publisher Mavifil Publishing (Mavifil Yayinlari)

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware In December 2011, I wrote a blog post about a Turkish publisher called Arvo Basim Yayin ...
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February 28, 2019

AMS Literary Agency: Approach With Caution

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware When Writer Beware was founded, an embarrassingly long time ago, most of the questions a...
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February 22, 2019

Publishing Contract Red Flag: When a Publisher Claims Copyright on Edits

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware It's not all that common, but I do see it from time to time in small press publishin...
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February 14, 2019

Publishizer: Do Authors Really Need a Crowdfunding Literary Agency?

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Publishizer bills itself as "the world's first crowdfunding literary agency.&q...
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January 11, 2019

Can We Get a Do-Over? Harper's Bazaar Removes Predatory Rights Language For Its 2019 Short Story Competition

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Yesterday, a number of writers alerted me to this writing competition  for UK authors: ...
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January 4, 2019

The Best of Writer Beware: 2018 in Review

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Happy New Year! It's time for Writer Beware's annual (well, sort of annual; I m...
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December 27, 2018

Army of Clones, Part 2: Twenty-One (More) Publishing and Marketing "Services" to Beware Of

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Last January, I wrote a post about a new and rapidly-growing scam: Philippines-based pu...
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