Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Dec 7, 2009, 10:52 am
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Kevin Weiss, President and CEO of Author Solutions Inc., has issued a video statement addressing the responses by RWA, SFWA, MWA, and NINC to ASI's re...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Dec 4, 2009, 12:37 pm
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Today, Mystery Writers of America announced its Board's unanimous decision to remove Harlequin and all its imprints from MWA's list of Approved Pu...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Dec 2, 2009, 9:24 am
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Of the many issues highlighted by the recent launch of pay-to-publish divisions by two major commercial publishers (Harlequin Enterprises' DellArte Pr...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 24, 2009, 8:30 pm
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware True to its promise, Harlequin has ditched the Harlequin Horizons name. It's now DellArte Press.
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 24, 2009, 10:59 am
...heeeeere's Tweetbookz! Tweetbookz will turn your tweets--those 140-character electronic messages about what you had for breakfast this morning or maybe something more interesting or important,...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 23, 2009, 9:17 am
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Last week, RWA, MWA, and SFWA all issued official statements condemning Harlequin Enterprises' new self-publishing division, Harlequin Horizons. (In ...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 19, 2009, 10:24 pm
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware SFWA has joined RWA and MWA in issuing a statement about Harlequin Horizons. ------------- In November, 2009, Harlequin Enterprises, Ltd. announced the ...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 19, 2009, 5:29 pm
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Today, Mystery Writers of America (a sponsor of Writer Beware, along with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) issued this announcement to ...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 19, 2009, 11:24 am
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Deep question number one: Why has the launch of Harlequin Horizons provoked such a gigantic firestorm of indignation, when the launch of West Bow Press (w...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 18, 2009, 10:51 am
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Hot on the heels of the launch of West Bow Press, Thomas Nelson's new self-publishing division, Harlequin Enterprises has unveiled Harlequin Horizons,...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 16, 2009, 10:32 am
On Friday, Google, the Association of American Publishers, and the Authors Guild filed a revised version of the Google Book Search Settlement. It's now up to Judge Denny Chin to set dates for a no...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 13, 2009, 9:26 am
... for agents? According to AgentInbox's FAQ for agents, agents create a profile listing their interests and submission preferences. They can then check their submissions online, sort them by v...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 11, 2009, 9:47 am
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Some blog posts and articles that piqued my interest over the past few weeks. Inspired by a silly piece by writer Jeff Rivera on GalleyCat, in which he, ...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Nov 3, 2009, 10:00 am
posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware As readers of this blog know, I'm fascinated by the strange phenomena that flourish at the fringes of the publishing world. So I was thrilled recently...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Oct 29, 2009, 5:53 pm
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Copyright, literally, is "the right to copy." It guarantees the authors of creative works--including books, artworks, films, recordings, photographs--the ...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Oct 21, 2009, 2:01 pm
Unlike commercial or trade publishers, whose business model is based on book volume (selling as many books as possible from a limited number of authors), author mills' business model is based on a...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Oct 15, 2009, 8:36 am
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware This is a followup to my post on Thomas Nelson's new self-publishing division, West Bow Press--specifically, on Nelson's plans to pay referral fee...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Oct 13, 2009, 8:53 am
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware As reported today in the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Nelson, a major independent Christian publisher, is adding a self-publishing line to its business. B...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Oct 9, 2009, 11:07 am
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Here are eight words you never want to hear from a publisher that is considering your manuscript for publication: "How many books are you planning to ord...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Oct 6, 2009, 10:09 am
... is a subject of urgent interest to enormous numbers of people. Often, however, when self-promotion is discussed, it's discussed as if all books are more or less the same, and any and all s...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Oct 1, 2009, 11:55 am
Imagine you're a new writer. You've just completed your first manuscript, and are on fire to get it published. You don't know a lot about the publishing world, or how to identify a good pu...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Sep 28, 2009, 9:32 am
I'm a bit tardy on reporting this, but what can I say--I was on vacation last week, and didn't bring my laptop. What's more, I didn't miss it a bit. No email, no blogging, no Twitter--...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Sep 18, 2009, 12:22 pm
In May 2008, the Indiana Attorney General filed suit against vanity publisher Airleaf and its owner, Carl Lau for taking authors' money without providing services in return. Additionally, Lau was ...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Sep 14, 2009, 9:36 am
For some time, I've been receiving questions about VDM Verlag Dr Mueller, a German academic publisher. VDM describes its business thus: VDM publishes academic research worldwide - at no cost to ...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Sep 10, 2009, 11:25 am
We've punctured a number of writers' myths on this blog, including the notion that commercially-published writers must give back their advances if their books don't earn out, the fear that...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Sep 4, 2009, 11:50 am
... : "The obvious social justice and social utility impact that the book project is going to have ... are getting lost in the discussion," said Professor Lateef Mtima, director ... it's a com...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Sep 3, 2009, 3:01 pm
As many readers of this blog know, Robert Fletcher, purported literary agent and publisher, from whom Writer Beware recently won court costs after he filed a frivolous defamation lawsuit against us, h...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Sep 1, 2009, 11:58 am
Writers: The deadline for deciding whether to opt out of the Google Book Search Settlement is September 4, 2009. That means you have just four days to decide. If you want to opt out, you must do so b...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Aug 27, 2009, 11:47 am
Last year, Amazon decreed that it would direct-sell no print-on-demand books that weren't printed by its POD subsidiary, BookSurge. The change in policy sent small publishers and POD self-publis...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Aug 25, 2009, 4:51 pm
Whenever I think I've seen it all, something new comes along. The explosive growth of self-publishing options over the past decade or so has spawned a mini-industry catering to writers trying to ...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Aug 21, 2009, 11:55 am
Traditionally, in the magazine and newspaper industry, a kill fee is "a negotiated payment on a magazine or newspaper article that is given to the freelancer if their assigned article is 'killed&#...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Aug 17, 2009, 10:19 am
To fee-charging services looking for more customers, what could be more lucrative than a referral from a literary agency or publisher? To a literary agency or publisher, what could be more tempting th...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Aug 14, 2009, 10:58 am
Earlier this week, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America issued a statement on the proposed Google Book Settlement, to which it plans to file a formal objection. The statement is reproduc...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Aug 12, 2009, 11:39 am
More good news for Writer Beware: the Mystery Writers of America is joining SFWA in sponsoring us. From the official press release: “We are pleased to be able to support the important work that ...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Aug 11, 2009, 10:12 am
In February 2008, Robert Fletcher and his company, The Literary Agency Group (a fee-charging literary agency/editing company/vanity publishing company currently doing business as Writers' Literary...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Aug 3, 2009, 10:22 am
One of the strangest schemes ever covered in this blog was a faux magazine startup called Laray Carr. Operating out of Terrell, Texas, Laray Carr first came to my attention in August 2007 with a cal...
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Victoria Strauss posted an article on Writer Beware Blogs! - Jul 30, 2009, 11:08 am

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