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August 4, 2020

Small Press Storm Warnings: Filles Vertes Publishing

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® I first heard of Filles Vertes Publishing  (FVP) in late February of last year, when I was c...
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July 23, 2020

Small Press Storm Warnings: Lethe Press, Seventh Star Press

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® LETHE PRESS Founded by Steve Berman in 2001,  Lethe Press is an LGBTQ-focused independent pu...
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July 16, 2020

The Impersonation Game Redux

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® A few months ago, I warned about a scammer impersonating agent Jennifer Jackson of the Dona...
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June 11, 2020

Agencies in Turmoil: Red Sofa Literary Threatens Legal Action, Mass Firings At Corvisiero Literary Agency

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® On May 30, following blowback she received for her tweeted responses to the protests in her...
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June 1, 2020

Four Major Publishers Sue the Internet Archive Over Unauthorized Book Scanning

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® This past March, I wrote about the Internet Archive's National Emergency Library...
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May 29, 2020

Evaluating Publishing Contracts: Six Ways You May Be Sabotaging Yourself

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® (A version of this post was originally published in 2014.) Several years ago, a now...
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April 17, 2020

Contest Scam Alert: Legaia Books Online Book Competition

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® When is a literary contest not a literary contest? When its purpose is to make money ...
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March 31, 2020

Copyright Violation Redux: The Internet Archive's National Emergency Library

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® The enormous digital archive that is the  Internet Archive  encompasses many different...
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March 26, 2020

Space Kadet: The Twisted Tale of a Sad, Sad Internet Troll

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Scroll down for updates A couple of weeks ago, my Twitter warning about an amateur l...
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