Blog Profile / Writer Beware!
| URL : | http://accrispin.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts / Writing | |
| Posts on Regator: | 436 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.6 | |
| Archived Since: | April 2, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
How to Satisfy Your Reader without Being Predictable
Posted by Ann C. Cristpin for Writer Beware How many times have you tuned into a murder mystery television show, such as Murder, She Wrote, and within the first 10 minutes, been able to ID whodunit…sometimes even before the murder occurs?...Show More Summary
PublishAmerica and J.K. Rowling: Retractomancy
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I blogged Tuesday about PublishAmerica's now-infamous J.K. Rowling promotion, which promised, for just $49, to bring PA authors' books to Rowling's attention during PA's upcoming visit to Scotland. Show More Summary
Taking Famous Names in Vain
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware PublishAmerica. As many of you are aware, this author mill is known for its efforts to persuade its authors to buy their own books, in part via a rotating series of "special offers". If only...Show More Summary
Award Alert: The IndieReader Discovery Awards
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I've been getting questions about a new awards program: the IndieReader Discovery Awards for self-published authors. "What do you get when you cross a bunch of great self-published books with extraordinary publishing industry professionals?" the Discovery Awards website asks. Show More Summary
Indian Writers Beware: Literary Agent Scams in India a Growing Problem
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware When Westerners think of major book markets, India may not be the first country that springs to mind. But India's publishing industry is the sixth largest in the world, and fully a third of...Show More Summary
Contest Alert: WriteOnCon
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I've gotten some questions over the past week about a fiction contest currently being conducted by WriteOnCon, a "totally free, interactive online Writer’s Conference held annually duringShow More Summary
Solicitation Alerts: JustFiction! Edition and DIP Publishing House
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware When Writer Beware was founded in 1998, it was vanishingly rare for publishers (or agents) to contact aspiring writers to express interest in their work--so rare, in fact, that any sort of unsolicited publisher or agent contact was almost certain to be a scam or a pay-to-play arrangement. Show More Summary
The Cruelest Hoax
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware There's been some Internet buzz over the past few days about an apparent scam in which an unknown individual, posing as agent Jodi Reamer of uber-agency Writers House, targeted an unsuspecting...Show More Summary
Judge Chin Wants Action on Failed Google Book Settlement
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware If you thought that Judge Denny Chin's denial of the Google Book Settlement last March was the end of that story, you were wrong. In the absence of a settlement agreement, the 2005 lawsuit...Show More Summary
Farrah Gray Publishing
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware When publishing relationships go bad, the writing was often on the wall long before the author signed on the dotted line. Perhaps there were nonstandard business practices, such as a hidden fee or a book purchase requirement. Show More Summary
Publishing Beyond the Grave
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Fellow authors, do you have a loved one who was a writer too, but sadly passed over into the Great Beyond with their poems or prose unpublished? Does the cosmic injustice of that weigh heavy...Show More Summary
Why You Want to Hire a Competent PR Service
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware As some of you may know, I was at one time a SF/fantasy book reviewer--mostly for SF Site, but also for other publications. (Most of my reviews are posted at my website.) However, I got burned out on reviewing after doing it for many years, and took a temporary hiatus that turned into a permanent one. Show More Summary
Agencies Becoming Publishers--a Trend and a Problem
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Yesterday, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, a major US agency, announced that it will be facilitating self-publishing for some of its clients. Over the past months and years we’ve come...Show More Summary
Getting Out of Your Book Contract (Maybe)
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Writer Beware often hears from authors who've signed up with bad or inexperienced or dishonest publishers, and are desperate to get free. They write to us wanting to know how they can break their contracts and regain their rights. Show More Summary
The Internet and Procrastination
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I spend too much time online. There, I've said it. Much of my Internet time is work-related--research for my writing, stuff for Writer Beware. As for the personal stuff--Facebook, YouTube,...Show More Summary
Book Marketing Methods That Don't Work
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware For any author, whether self-, small press-, or big house-published, getting noticed is one of the primary challenges. Larger publishers provide marketing support for their authors (yes, they...Show More Summary
Police Investigate Historical Pages Publishing Company
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware From yesterday's Burlington Free Press: Behnah Ghobadi, president of Print Tech, a Burlington publishing firm has been printing books for customers across the United States for 34 years, but...Show More Summary
Clark, Mendelson, and Scott: New Name for a Fee-Charging Agency
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Every time I bemoan Writer Beware's overpacked file drawers, and wonder whether I should get rid of files for agents and publishers that have gone out of business (or at least consign them to the basement), I'm reminded of why it's important to keep that old information handy. Show More Summary
Contract Red Flag: Net Profit Royalty Clauses
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware In the comments thread of a previous post, a reader asked whether there is a difference between royalties paid on net income and royalties paid on net profit. There most definitely is a difference--and,...Show More Summary
PublishAmerica Will Be Your Literary Agent...For $199
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Literary agencies becoming publishers? Screw that trend. PublishAmerica, always a trail blazer, is swinging the other way. The email from which I've quoted below was sent out today by theShow More Summary