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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Over the past couple of days I've gotten several emails and Facebook posts alerting me to a blog post by writer Mandy DeGeit about her bad experience with a small publisher called Undead Press. When she received her author's copy of the anthology in which her story was published, she discovered, to her dismay, that not only was there a mistake in her title (an inappropriate apostrophe), but.
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Yesterday I got a question from a writer who'd been offered a publishing contract by a small publisher, and was concerned because the contract language seemed to indicate that the publisher intended to register copyright in its name... Read Post

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I've seen a slew of bad publishing contracts lately, which makes this guest blog post by author Kfir Luzatto especially resonant for me. Turning down a publishing offer when you have one ... Read Post

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I get a lot of questions about publishing contracts, and many requests to review them. I'm not a lawyer, but I do have a fair knowledge of publishing contract boilerplate, as well as a go... Read Post