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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Following on my last post about how authors can waste money on promotional strategies, here are some more cash-sucking "opportunities." Book Your Trip to Hollywood, from Outskirts Press Self-publishing service Outskirts Press--home of some of the sillier "book marketing" services--is taking advantage of one of writers' most fevered pipe dreams with its new Book Your Trip to Hollywood service.
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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware In a video posted to YouTube on Friday, and in an accompanying press release, the CEO of Author Solutions, Kevin Weiss, invited the Romance Writers of America, the Mystery Writers of Amer... Read Post

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Writers: Forget about that boring day job. Forget about tedious book promotion. Heck, forget about writing books! There's another way to make money--and it was created with authors in min... Read Post

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware You'd think that dodgy publishers, publicists, and others would know better than to spam Writer Beware. But no. Disproving the frequent spammer claim that their email lists are carefully ... Read Post