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February 14, 2020

Should You Pay To Display Your Book At BookExpo? (Short Answer: No)

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® BookExpo  (formerly known as BookExpo America, but still referred to as BEA) is the US&...
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February 7, 2020

The Impersonation Game

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. It's a familiar meme ...which can b...
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January 24, 2020

Junk Book Marketing: Pay-to-Play Magazines

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Scroll down for updates On this blog and elsewhere, I spend a lot of time warning a...
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January 15, 2020

What You Need to Know About How California's New Law AB-5 Affects Writers

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Scroll down for updates Last year, California passed a new law, AB-5 , intended to make ...
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January 8, 2020

Writer Beware: 2019 in Review

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Happy New Year! It's that time again--time for a look back at the schemes, scams, an...
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December 30, 2019

Beware: Wid Bastian a.k.a. Widtsoe T. Bastian / Genius Media Inc. / Kairos Phoenix Company

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® Scroll down for updates Early in 2019, seventeen writers were recruited to participat...
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December 23, 2019

Writing Contest Beware: Pressfuls

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® On Sunday morning, I woke up (late, I admit) to a flurry of emails about an website I&#...
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December 20, 2019

How Predatory Companies Are Trying to Hijack Your Publisher Search, Part 3

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® In my first post about the ways that predatory companies attempt to ensnare unwary writ...
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December 11, 2019

Vanity Radio: Why You Should Think Twice Before Paying For an Interview

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® In a super-crowded, hyper-competitive marketplace, one of the main challenges for book ...
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