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September 13, 2019

Authors' Concern Grows Over Late Royalty Payments at Dreamspinner Press

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® On Wednesday, Publishers Lunch  published an article by Erin Somers about payment issue...
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August 23, 2019

Universal Book Solutions: Anatomy of a Book-to-Screen Scam

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Selling film rights to Hollywood is among writers' most fevered dreams. And where t...
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August 16, 2019

From the Philippines, Not With Love: A Plague of Publishing and Marketing Scams

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® I've been expending a lot of words and time lately warning about the latest scam ph...
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August 9, 2019

Kiss Library: Pirate Site Alert

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® I've gotten several alerts over the past week about a pirate site that's new to me...
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July 31, 2019

Alert: Trouble at Dog Ear Publishing

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Founded in 2004, Dog Ear Publishing  is part of the surge of Author Solutions-style ass...
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July 12, 2019

From Writer Beware's Files: Seven Prolific Vanity Publishers

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Vanity publishers, unfortunately, are not in short supply. Writer Beware's files in...
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June 20, 2019

How Predatory Companies Are Trying to Hijack Your Publisher Search, Part 2

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Last year, I published a post on the perils of searching for a publisher on the internet...
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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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